Redvers Kyle

Redvers Kyle (born either 1928 or 1929) is a retired television announcer and presenter who worked on ITV in the United Kingdom.

Kyle was born in South Africa and was named after General Sir Redvers Buller, the British military commander in the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War. He worked for Associated-Rediffusion from 1955 until the company, by then called Rediffusion London, lost its franchise in 1968.

He then moved to the new Yorkshire Television, where he remained for a quarter of a century until his retirement in 1993, although he did continue to announce from time to time on YTV and Tyne Tees Television through to around 1998. He also presented the first schools programme on British television for A-R in 1957, fronted a number of children's programmes produced by A-R in the late 1950s and early 1960s, voiced over local adverts for ATV and Central Television in the Midlands, was heard as a narrator on a number of LP records, and composed light music. In the 1980s his voice was heard in the Yorkshire Television children's series "The Giddy Game Show" as well as Yorkshire TV's long running schools series How We Used To Live. In the 1990s his voice was heard in programmes by Victor Lewis-Smith, who had revived the name "Associated-Rediffusion" for his own production company.

He is now retired.

External links

* [http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/itvyorkshire/continuity.html tv-ark.org] - Announcements made by Redvers on YTV's Christmas Line, a Commercial Radio promo and others.
* [http://tvannouncers.thetvroomplus.com/channel-43.html tvroom.com] - Entry on a Television Continuity site.
* [http://www.tvfetish.net/IA_Yorkshire.htm tvfetish.net] - List of Continuity Announcers who have broadcast on YTV.
* [http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/itv_announcers.html bvws.org.uk] - List of Continuity Announcers on ITV over the years.