Originally Posted by p_c_u_k:
“Just a bit.
Although it's not as sad as when you see the network trailer on ITV1, then switch over to Scottish TV and hear the exact same script read by a Scottish announcer.
Great minds think alike, and all that...”
It's been a deliberate policy since 1998. Scottish and Grampian seem to think that if viewers in Scotland hear an English voice on promos, they'll all explode or something, so STV gets a copy of each network promo *without* the voice-over and gets its own announcers to re-read them.
Problem is, they've only got two voices (one male and one female) and they both sound terrible. They regularly ruin perfectly good promos.