Trish Bertram

Trish Bertram is a British television continuity announcer and voice-over artist.

Career

Bertram started her career in 1982 with London Weekend Television[1], providing voice-over for LWT from 1982 to 2002 before becoming a duty announcer and reading out LWT News Headlines bulletins.

Bertram has worked at various stations; she joined the pan-European satellite channel Super Channel in 1987 as an announcer and presenter [2] before returning to London Weekend as a freelancer in 1989. Bertram next joined British Satellite Broadcasting in March 1990 and became the chief announcer for Galaxy, the company's general entertainment channel. After a short stint contracted to TVS (where Bertram was a regular freelance announcer), she re-joined LWT again in 1990, becoming Senior Announcer when Peter Lewis left.

She was a TV announcer for UK Gold, BBC World, five and Westcountry Television from 1993 to 2011.

Alongside colleague Glen Thompsett, she made the last announcement (a recorded in-vision link) on LWT's last night as an on-air brand on 27 October 2002.[3] [4]

Olympics

Bertram was one of the Stadium Announcers for the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Paralympics ceremonies in London with Marc Edwards.[5] [6]

Other work

Bertram provided narration for Raeyn St. Clare's album project Nightfaery.[7]

In August 2013, Bertram replaced Ewan Allinson as the continuity announcer for the British Urban Film Festival. She's remained in post ever since, providing voice-overs for all the film festival's idents and publicity content.

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References
  1. "So you want to be a Continuity Announcer". So You Want to Work in TV.
  2. "Whatever happened to... NBC Super Channel?". a516digital.
  3. Randall, Gareth (2003-02-01). "Last Days". Transdiffusion Broadcasting System.
  4. Day, Julia (2002-10-21). "LWT brand set to be axed". The Guardian.
  5. Bertram, Trish. "Trish Bertram". trishbertram.com. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  6. Denison, Steve. "Spotlight On! Introducing Olympic Stadium Announcer Trish". Great British Voices.
  7. "Raeyn St. Claire Bio". raeynstclare.com.
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