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- Colin_Weston abstract "Colin Weston (born 26 June 1948), is an English broadcaster, best known for his work at Granada Television and Tyne Tees Television.Born in London, he attended Streatham Modern School in Lambeth. Upon leaving school, he began working in the press and publicity department of ABC Television's studios in Teddington and stayed with the company for four years. After ABC lost its weekend franchises in 1968, he applied for various continuity announcing roles around the ITV network.Weston was successful at Granada, which had won the seven-day franchise for North West England. He was trained by then-chief announcer Don Murray Henderson. However, on his first announcing shift, he earned the nickname Fluff after forgetting the name of the Winter Hill transmitter during the opening authority announcement.After 18 months, his contract with Granada was not renewed but he moved onto Anglia Television in Norwich, spending four years at the station before going freelance, working for BBC Television, LWT, HTV, Westward, Border and Southern. His most notable freelance stint came at Tyne Tees, which he joined permanently in 1979.He continued to freelance after returning to Granada in the early 1980s, where in-vision continuity had been introduced to the station. Weston had become one of the best known television personalities in North West England, winning many fans for his unique style of announcing. His duties at Granada extended when he became Chief Announcer, leading a team of contemporaries including Andrew Brittain, John MacKenzie, Beverley Ashworth, Pamela Dodd and Roger Tilling. Alongside all other Granada announcers, until 1992, he also read regional news bulletins throughout the day. He also voiced Granada-produced networked trails and promos for the ITV network and made a cameo appearance during the first series of the long-running Granada sitcom, Watching, in 1987.Weston was also the duty announcer on Friday 12 February 1988, the evening of the last closedown from Granada before the start of 24-hour transmissions. For seven years, he provided continuity for the part-networked Night Time service, broadcast in the Border, Grampian, Granada, TSW, Tyne Tees and Ulster regions. Aside his television career, he has also worked for Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and Radio City in Liverpool.In 1998, Granada's presentation operation moved to the studios of Yorkshire Television in Leeds. Not wanting to make a move to Yorkshire, Weston left Granada after an announcing career spanning 30 years. He now works as a film extra & voiceover artist for videos and commercials and presents on community radio stations in Greater Manchester, previously at NMFM and now at Salford City Radio on Thursday mornings.".
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- Colin_Weston comment "Colin Weston (born 26 June 1948), is an English broadcaster, best known for his work at Granada Television and Tyne Tees Television.Born in London, he attended Streatham Modern School in Lambeth. Upon leaving school, he began working in the press and publicity department of ABC Television's studios in Teddington and stayed with the company for four years.".
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