Pamela Creighton announcing in the then new Green
(World Service in English) continuity studio, c1991. Both the SM and
announcer's desks were identical, and eventually there were periods
when the announcer ran the network by themselves. In the end, of
course, the network became entirely announcer-operated with the advent
of NUMISYS, Bush's first computerised playout system (christened 'Nasty
Unreliable Machine Invariably Spoils Your Schedule')..
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