The BBC World Service still uses announcers as radio newsreaders but live continuity was discontinued in the early 2010s.
Until about 1990, BBC Radio 2 used continuity announcers (separate from newsreaders) for its weekend and evening output, but these have since disappeared.
The announcing team for BBC Radio 4 work from a suite of studios on the 7th floor of Broadcasting House in London.
Historically, BBC announcers mostly spoke with Received Pronunciation, but the range of accents heard has widened considerably in recent years,[when?]
In the early days of television, it was almost like a variety bill in the theatre... [and when] an item would come on, somebody had to say what it was often listing an entire evening's up-coming programming in one link.
Between the late 1960s and circa 1980, many of the BBC's English regions provided their own continuity on weekday evenings, including in-vision presentation – particularly at closedown.
For a time, the BBC Three website offered viewers the opportunity to record links for programmes.
All announcements for ITV plc-owned stations on ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe originate from the company's main transmission facilities at Technicolor in Chiswick, Greater London.
A separate team of announcers for the separately-owned STV is based at the company's headquarters in Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
During the 1980s and 1990s, many regional companies abandoned the use of in-vision continuity announcers: IVC returned for a one off on Christmas Day 2017, presented by Julian Simmons.
Granada Television, for its first 20 years or so, never used in-vision continuity as its CEO, Sidney Bernstein, considered it frivolous for a station that was trying to match the BBC in image and respectability (despite the BBC employing in-vision announcers at the time of Granada's launch) and felt that having a mere functionary would cheapen the station.
Channel 4 used links featuring the announcer on-screen for a brief period following its launch in 1982, mainly at closedown.
The station briefly reprised the use of in-vision continuity links for a short period from 1996, used mainly in evening transmissions.
Children's presentation is produced by independent production companies Boomerang (Stwnsh/Cyw in-vision links) and Cwmni Da (Cyw).