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James O'Hara is a former Scottish television continuity announcer. O'Hara, a graduate of Manchester University and Aberdeen University, worked at Grampian Television as a staff announcer and newsreader. He switched to BBC Scotland during the mid-1970s and became one of their first full-time television announcers. In common with other BBC Scotland announcers, O'Hara also directed transmission and read ''Scottish News'' summaries both in and out of vision.〔(The TV Room Plus - Spotlight: BBC Scotland announcers ) 〕 He left the corporation in 1988 and became a freelance for BBC North East and BBC West Yorkshire FM (now known as ''BBC Radio Leeds''). In 1994, O'Hara became an audio describer for ''Audetel'', a trial providing audio description of television programmes for blind and partially sighted viewers.〔(In So Many Words: Language Transfer on the Screen ), University of Surrey 〕 The trial was a success and led to the legislation of audio description for digital terrestrial television within the 1996 Broadcasting Act.〔(The TV Room Plus - BBC Scotland announcers ) 〕 O'Hara is now the managing editor of the ITFC's audio description department〔(ITFC - Audio description ) 〕 and continues to work as an audio describer on television programmes and films. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James O'Hara (announcer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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