 Continuity Announcer Julian Simmons Julian Simmons is a Northern Irish television presenter, who is best known as a continuity announcer on UTV. Image File history File linksMetadata Julian_simmons. ...
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UTV (Ulster Television) is the ITV franchise for Northern Ireland. ...
Julian has worked at the station since 1984. He usually introduces the programmes in-vision, rather than providing a voiceover over an ident, making UTV the only ITV region to still use in-vision continuity. A television ident visually identifies the network or station presenting a television programme. ...
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In addition to announcing the following programmes, he also introduces competitions under the Watch to Win banner. He can sometimes be seen presenting the UTV weather forecast at c. 22.55 on Friday evenings. He also provides voiceovers for local television advertisements and UTV programme trails. Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
Julian originally provided weekend and relief continuity duty as he held a full-time job in Air Canada, and later British Airways. Until c.1992, Julian also presented news bulletins on Ulster Television. Air Canada Boeing 767-300ER C-GGFJ Air Canada Boeing 767-300 C-FOCA Air Canada is Canadas largest airline and flag carrier. ...
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From 1993 to 1996, Julian's continuity duties on Friday evenings were branded as Julian on Friday. As well as introducing the evening's programmes on UTV, Julian invited viewers to enter a weekly draw to win dinner at a Belfast restaurant and tickets to the Kelly show. The draw for the competition took place after Kelly and before, as he personally introduced them, "the lusty big wee-men of Prisoner: Cell Block H". Julian drew the winner's name out of a pink tombola decorated in bow ties. For the 1967 British fantasy-drama television series starring Patrick McGoohan, see The Prisoner. ...
When on announcing duty for UTV, Julian also regularly read out greetings and messages sent in by viewers, which he usually performed before high-rated series as Coronation Street and Blind Date. He continued to do this until the early 2000s. Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, which was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV and is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ...
A blind date is a date between two people who have never met and typically know little or nothing about each other. ...
As well as his UTV continuity duties, he also currently works in a travel shop in the Ballyhackamore area of Belfast. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ...
"Well now on the UTV Cam'ere till I tell ya..... Julian Simmons has always been dreadfully coy about revealing his sexuality for reasons known only to himself. Well, let me tell ya something......"
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