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In most cases, this is the short announcement between programs that identifies the network. Also known as Station Identification, although a terrestrial network which relies on independently-owned local affiliates may require both during [[Station Ident|station breaks]]: "You're watching KXGN-TV 5 Glendive, the choice cut of two states. ([[Beat|cuts back to network]]) This is the CBS Television Network."
There is [http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/index.html another kind] of continuity announcement. If something goes wrong in transmission of a program, the network will usually have a message ready, such as "[[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties|Temporary Fault]]" or "Program Change". Or "We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by" or the ever-popular Test Pattern.
In many European countries, presenters known as "continuity announcers" or "station hosts" were employed by TV stations to appear on camera to identify the station and often introduce the programme schedule. This practice only happens on a handful of European TV stations today, with out-of-vision announcements, live ([[The BBC]] way) or pre-recorded, the main order of the day. Shows have been known to parody the latter type of announcement in scenes considered too violent, or someone actually attacking the cameraman or other production staff.
Continuity announcers also existed in North America in [[The Fifties]], mainly due to technical limitations - cuing up and playing short snippets of audio on reel-to-reel tape was time-consuming and fraught with error. So why hire two technicians to run the machines when you could hire one announcer to do it all live? Even after the [
Can overlap with the [[Station Ident]].
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== Belgium ==
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* [[The BBC]] has in-vision announcers on its Scots Gaelic channel, BBC Alba.
** For a very brief period in 2008, they experiemented with an in-vision announcer on BBC Three, who had to compete with the [[Hey,
* The [[Stroke Country|Northern Ireland]] version of [[ITV]], UTV, still uses in-vision continuity, unlike the other companies in the ITV network who abandoned the practice over time. This is due to the long-running popularity of a guy called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kqkavY6nFU Julian Simmons], whose introductions to [[Soap Opera]] ''[[Coronation Street]]'' somehow acquired [[Memetic Mutation|near-legendary status]]. Julian's presenting style is arguably as divisive among viewers as [[The Troubles|more serious matters in that part of the world]]. For many years, only Julian was allowed by UTV management to present in-vision continuity links, but recently, the station has let its other staff announcers appear on camera to introduce the programmes.
* Spoof continuity announcements were a regular element of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': ''"Now on BBC television, a choice of viewing. On BBC 2 - a discussion on censorship between Derek Hart, the Bishop of Woolwich, and a nude man. And on BBC 1 - me telling you this."''
* A regular feature of the TV version of ''[[Dead Ringers (TV series)|Dead Ringers]]'' is a parody of continuity announcements from all UK TV channels; as much a send-up of the ethos of each channel (e.g., ITV with trashy reality shows, Channel 4's obsession with property programmes) than its presentation style.
** The radio version also sent up Radio 4's continuity announcers, in particular how they come up with hilariously tenuous links between the programmes preceding and following them, often based on an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]].
* ''Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV'' featured a parody of the typical in-vision continuity announcer who still prevailed on UK TV at the time, played by Susie Blake.
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* Similarly, an Irish satirical comedy series in the 1980s featured a parody of a 1960s in-vision female Telefís Éireann announcer, sending up the parochial style of Ireland in that era.
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