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 Krishnan's first broadcasting experience came in 1988, when he became presenter of the BBC's youth discussion programme, 'Open To Question'. During the next ten years with the Corporation, Krishnan presented and reported for 'Newsround' and also anchored 'Newsnight'.
In 1998, he moved across to 'Channel 4 News' where he is a regular presenter and reporter. Krishnan has also been involved with many Channel 4 programmes, including 'Think TV' and 'The Autopsy'.
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Bradford born Christa Ackroyd, one of the main presenters of 'Calendar' for more than 10 years recently left the station in 2001 to anchor the rival BBC 'Look North' from Leeds from Autumn that year.
She started her career in journalism with the Halifax Courier and then moved into radio, first with Pennine Radio, and then with Radio Aire, where she became the UK's first female radio news editor. While there she covered the Yorkshire Ripper case, and supplied reports to national network radio.
Christa joined Yorkshire Television in 1989.
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Former 'Central News' reporter in the mid-1980s. Kaye joined STV in the late-1980s as a reporter for 'Scotland Today' - she was one of the first reporters on the scene at Lockerbie.
Kaye could also be seen presenting 'Scotland Today' and also presented 'Scottish Women' from the early to mid-1990s for STV.
Kaye has been one of the regular faces of ITV daytime over the past couple of years - presenting 'Loose Women', 'Live Talk'. She also stood in for Fern Britton on 'This Morning' c. 2001.
Other TV/radio credits: 'The Home Show' (STV); 'Choice Cuts' (BBC Radio Scotland).
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 (OBE). Joined the BBC in 1968 working in local radio in Durham. She later worked as a reporter for regional news in Plymouth and Southampton. BBC TV News home reporter, 1979 - 1983; special correspondent, 1982 - 1989; court correspondent 1983 - 1985; chief news correspondent from 1989 - 2003 during which time she had reported from many war zones. Relief news reader in 1982 and 1987 and reporter, BBC TV's 'Panorama' in 1988. She was awarded an OBE in 1993.
Adie retired from BBC TV news in 2003. She now works as a freelance journalist and public speaker.
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 Asad joined the BBC regional news trainee scheme in 1996. In 1997 he got his first TV job reporting and presenting with the BBC in Birmingham. He then moved to BBC Scotland where he was a reporter and presenter, working on programmes such as 'Newsnight Scotland', 'Reporting Scotland', and 'Newsline'.
In 2000 he returned to London where he presented the news bulletins on 'Breakfast', sharing that role with Moira Stuart. He also popped up occasionally on BBC News 24.
In May 2002, he became a presenter/reporter with BBC 'London News'.
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Tazeen graduated from University with a 2:1 in communication studies.
Tazeen started off as a news assistant at ITN. She later became involved in various projects for a number of radio stations. At BBC GLR, she presented a live one hour arts and entertainment show. For BBC Thames Valley radio, she presented a weekly three hour show. She later became involved with BBC Radio 5 Live presenting and producing news, arts and entertainment features.
By the early-2000s, Tazeen was reporting for the BBC Choice entertainment magazine, 'Liquid News'. In July 2001, she became one of the regular presenters of the new BBC Choice news programme, ''60 Seconds'. She continued to present the programme - and the new 'News Show' - following the launch of BBC Three in February 2003.
Other TV projects: presenter/producer, 'East' (BBC).
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Samira is a former BBC news trainee who went on to anchor news programmes on BBC News 24 and BBC World. She was also a reporter for 'Newsnight' and BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme.
She joined 'Channel 4 News' in April 1999 as a general reporter. Samira is now one of the programme's regular presenters.
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Aitken brandished his 'sword of truth' as a news reporter and presenter on 'Calendar' in the early-1970s before he won the Thanet East parliamentary constituency for the Conservative Party in 1974, and turned to a career in politics.
He was later a board director of TV-am during its troubled early life.
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Keith was a news presenter with TVS. When Meridian took over the southern ITV franchise, he moved to 'Look North' at BBC North East in Newscastle.
Keith is currently a senior reporter for 'Look North'.
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 BBC TV News foreign correspondent, 1989 - 1994 and South Africa correspondent from June 1994. News reader on BBC News 24 and then a BBC One news reader from May 1999, deputising on the 'One O'Clock News' and 'Nine O'Clock News'. In 2002, he became the main presenter on the BBC Four news programme, which was simulcast on BBC World. The following year, he became one of the main co-presenters on the 'Six O'Clock News'. From May 2006, George has been presenting a one hour news programme on BBC World (broadcast at 12 noon UK time).
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 Kay is a presenter on BBC 'Midlands Today' and has been with the programme since 1974. She was one of the main presenters on the programme until the late-1990s. Kay now covers breakfast and lunchtime shifts mostly.
As a freelance, she also works on corporate videos and provides voice-overs.
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Former 'Central News' (South) reporter and presenter. Cathy also presented the news on the now defunct satellite broadcaster BSB in 1990. She currently presents and reports for 'Meridian Tonight'.
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 Lucy's journalistic career began as a reporter with BBC local radio - BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester and BBC Greater London Radio. Her first TV job was with Anglia TV as producer. She soon moved on to reporting and presenting on 'Anglia News'.
She soon became a regular face on the ITV London regional news programme 'London Today' and was soon co-anchoring the early evening 'London Tonight' with Alastair Stewart.
Lucy later co-anchored the breakfast programme on the ITV News Channel with Andrew Harvey. In 2006, she joined Sky News.
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YTV news reporter and 'Calendar' presenter who left the company in the late-1990s to work on French television.
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Gaelic speaking presenter of Grampian Television's 'Telefios' Gaelic language news magazine in the 1990s.
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Matthew became a national BBC correspondent in 1990. He spent some time based in Northern Ireland where he reported on events such as the Shankill bombing, the Greysteel shootings and the first IRA ceasefire. Other notable assignments included the fall of Srebrenica and the Waco massacre.
By 1997, Matthew was based in London, working as a political correspondent at Westminster.
Later in 1997 Matthew joined BBC News 24 as one of the evening presenters. Since then he has presented on the channel in various timeslots; he has also occasionally presented weekend news programmes on BBC One and continues to do so.
He remains at BBC News 24.
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Andrew Anderson worked for Grampian Television as a reporter and presenter of 'North Tonight' from February 1988 until October 1992. He went on to work for Reuters Television as the first Scotland correspondent for the fledgling breakfast TV company GMTV. He's now working for BBC Scotland news and current affairs.
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Before joining Thames Television in London as a reporter and news reader, John Andrew was a radio journalist working on BBC Radio Cleveland.
In the early-2000s, he was an occasional presenter on BBC News 24. He's currently on the BBC's political staff.
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 Born in Dublin, Eamonn Andrews began sports commentating for Radio Éireann in 1939 and subsequently worked on various programmes for BBC Radio, including 'Sports Report' between 1950 and 1962.
On television he hosted the BBC's parlour game 'What's My Line?' (1951 - 1963), 'Crackerjack' (1955 - 1964), ABC Television's 'World Of Sport' (1965 - 1968) and 'This is Your Life' until his death in 1987.
He joined Thames Television from ABC in 1968 and was the first anchor of its nightly news magazine programme 'Today' until 1977. At the same time, he was active as a chat show host and children's programmes presenter, as well as being a keen businessman.
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 Television chef who started out as a television presenter, initially with HTV Wales, and then as one of the anchors for 'About Anglia' and an Anglia TV announcer, in 1976 until the early-1980s.
His television culinary career began at 'About Anglia' when he asked the programme's bosses if he could demonstrate to viewers how an Irish coffee should be made. This turned into a regular slot on the programme - Patrick's Pantry - and this, in turn, led to him making several food and cookery programmes for Anglia TV, and later for the BBC nationally.
Patrick also regularly manned Anglia's continuity desk in the 1980s. In early-2002, Patrick returned to Anglia Television to present 'Take A Leaf', a new gardening and countryside show, which tells viewers how best to grow their own food.
More recently, Patrick has been appearing as one of the cooks on 'Ready, Steady, Cook'.
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 Started her career as a reporter/presenter for Border Television in the early-1980s before becoming one of ITN's main newscasters (March 1987 until 1992). She was the first co-anchor on GMTV in 1993, and later returned to Border TV as one of the anchors of the relaunched 'Lookaround' news programme.
She also fronted a cookery series called 'Easy As Pie' for Carlton Food Network where she demonstrated her skills in the kitchen. Fiona has also featured in a series of programmes for Granada TV on 'Health And Slimming'. She also regularly chairs major conferences and award ceremonies.
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 Pamela was an ITN newscaster from November 1983 until August 1986. She was the presenter of BBC TV's 'Daytime Live', 1987 - 1988.
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Marie was born in Edinburgh and raised in Carlisle.
Having obtained a degree in French, she then went on to study a one-year post-graduate course in radio journalism. Her career began in radio, where she worked as a district reporter for BBC Radio Cumbria in Barrow, Furness, covering the South Lakes.
Six months later, she moved to BBC Radio Nottingham, taking up a reporting job. Then, in 1989, while on placement to 'Midlands Today', Marie moved to Central TV, where she spent sixteen years, as a reporter and presenter; in fact, she soon became one of the main anchors on the main evening regional news programme there. During her time with ITV, Marie presented many programmes, covering political and social issues.
In September 2005, she returned to the BBC in Nottingham, co-presenting 'East Midlands Today' on Fridays. She also presents the local segments on 'The Politics Show' and from January 2006, 'Inside Out'.
Marie also has a weekly column in the Nottingham Evening Post.
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 John was a TV news reader with BBC Northern Ireland in the 1980s, presenting short bulletins mainly. He switched to a continuity announcer/director role there in the early-1990s.
John retired from the BBC in November 2006; his last on air announcement was on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 12.20am on November 01 2006.
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 Anna-Maria Ashe was a continuity announcer at BBC Scotland, TVS and Grampian Television in the mid-1980s. She also presented lunchtime news bulletins in-vision during her time with BBC Scotland (1986). She later moved to the TVS nightly news magazine 'Coast To Coast' where she did a stint at presenting/news reading for the Southampton edition, before moving to the Maidstone programme.
Anna-Maria was replaced at Maidstone by Liz Wickham when she moved to LWT as the main anchor of 'LWT News' and 'LWT News Weekend'. She was one of the main presenters on the 'London Tonight' programme on ITV 1 until February 2004.
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Presenter with 'Central News' (East).
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 Michael Aspel started his career as a BBC TV out-of-vision continuity announcer, from 1957 until 1960, and then news reader, from October 1960 until June 1968. He later moved to presenting children’s programmes including 'Crackerjack' and 'Ask Aspel'.
He later joined LWT as the main anchor of regional show 'The 6 O'Clock Show' from 1982 to 1988 and was a guest presenter on LWT's 'Six O'Clock Live' in 1990 and 1991. He also presented the LWT networked chat show 'Aspel & Company' from 1984 to 1993 and hosted Thames TV's 'Give Us A Clue', TVS' 'Ultra Quiz' in 1983 and the BBC TV versions of 'Blockbusters' in 1987 and 'This Is Your Life' in the 1990s.
He now presents 'The Antiques Roadshow' on the BBC.
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 Craig Austin combines roles as a broadcaster, writer and producer. He started his media career in radio and moved on to television, dipping his toes in ink along the way.
Craig is from Uddingston, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and is the youngest of four boys. He started a career in medical laboratory sciences but after three years he returned to student life to study media. He does miss the white coat though!
It was during his final year as a student that he got his first professional broadcasting gigs, writing and presenting travel and traffic reports on a number of Scotland's radio stations, as well as doing commercial voice-overs. A short spell hosting his own shows on Radio Tay in Dundee followed, before Craig found himself in Carlisle, working as an announcer, presenter and producer for Border Television.
Over the course of eight years as an announcer there, Craig presented in excess of 5,000 Border News bulletins, 1,000 'Border Birthdays' slots, and 20,000 in/out-of-vision continuity spots. He also got to host a range of children’s and entertainment specials, including the 'Hogmanay' shows and his own magazine series, 'CU4'. He was also co-responsible for the station’s on screen image.
Whilst there, he continued with a number of freelance presenting engagements including at Radio Clyde 1 in Glasgow and corporate video work for Norwich Union and Bank of Scotland; and he also syndicated a weekly youth entertainment and information column for youngsters, to nine newspaper titles in Scotland, the north of England and the Isle of Man.
Craig has even had a brief foray into the world of pop music working with BMG Records, Louis Walsh and Ronan Keating, as creative consultant to 'The Carter Twins' a young and talented Dublin pop act who were being groomed for Eurovision stardom. Or so they all hoped!
Craig has extensive behind-the-scenes experience as an on air producer and consultant and his skills have been utilised by broadcasters such as ITV, BBC, UKTV and RTÉ.
Since 2003, Craig has returned to performing, as a busy voice-over artist and out-of-vision announcer for Scottish TV, Grampian TV and the UKTV network and as a presenter of Film24 on Life24.
Craig has also been developing his skills as a screenwriter and has completed two feature film scripts.
Breakdown of Craig's career to date:
1987 - 1988: traffic and travel presenter for 'AA Roadwatch' and 'Flightwatch' on Radio Clyde, Radio Forth, Radio Tay, West Sound Radio, NorthSound Radio and BBC Radio Scotland.
1987 - 1997: freelance presenter and writer including: Radio Clyde 1 in Glasgow; Radio Tay in Dundee; Radio Borders in Galashiels; 'Pick Of The Week' for Yorkshire TV. Syndicated a weekly newspaper feature for young people, to nine titles in Scotland and the North of England. Also, corporate video presenting.
1988 - 1997: announcer/presenter/producer, Border TV. Craig presented in excess of 5,000 news bulletins, 1,000 children’s programmes, and 20,000 in/out-of-vision continuity spots.
1995 - 1997: editor, presentation and promotions, Border TV.
1997: head of presentation, UK Gold.
1998: producer/consultant, ITV 2. Set up the in-vision continuity for the channel launch.
1998 - 1999: producer/consultant, RTÉ, Dublin. Project manager for the on air rebranding and relaunch of RTÉ Network 2.
2000 - 2003: network presentation manager, ITV Network. Responsible to David Liddiment, director of channels, with the remit of refreshing ITV 1's junction and presentation management. Also involved in the implementation of the initial rebranding to ITV 1 and was responsible for creating the Network Continuity Unit which was to commission and schedule all on air presentation devices, as well as to supply announcers with detailed marketing and programme information.
At ITV, Craig also introduced the then radical presentation techniques of end credit promotions, standardised credits, ‘next’ captions. ‘next time’ and ‘previously’ teasers within programmes, ad break promotion opticals, and ‘countdown/after’ trailers, all of which are now standard practice on many UK television channels.
2003 - 2006: writer: creator of various TV and film drama projects, currently seeking development interest.
1995 - 2006: presenter for Halifax and Bank of Scotland corporate videos.
2003 - 2004: continuity announcer, Scottish TV and Grampian TV.
2004 - 2005: creative producer, BBC Broadcast. Contracted to set up a new 45 strong continuity department with writing hub for the UKTV network.
2005 - 2006: continuity announcer: UKTV Drama, UKTV History, UKTV Documentary, UKTV Style Gardens and UKTV Food.
2006: presenter for Film24, broadcasting daily on Life24. Shows include 'Film Xtra', 'Star Talk' and 'Scene:Out'.
2007: announcer/director at BBC Scotland for BBC One and BBC Two. A six month assignment as part of the migration project moving the headquarters in Queen Margaret Drive to a new site at Pacific Quay. This allowed existing staff to drop out of the rota to receive training on the new technology that will be used at Pacific Quay.
Presenter/producer/director with Film24, based at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
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 Wendy joined BBC Northern Ireland in the early-1980s fresh from her presenting duties on Downtown Radio. Wendy presented 'Scene Around Six' and 'Inside Ulster' regularly, as well as being the face of a local supermarket chain's advertising campaign.
Wendy was a regular presenter on BBC NI's Children In Need offering. Since the early-1990s, Wendy has stayed with radio, and is one of the main presenters on BBC Radio Ulster's 'Good Morning Ulster'. However, she does still pop up on our screens occasionally - she took over from former colleague Sean Rafferty as presenter of 'The DIY Show'.
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 BBC TV sports reporter, 1985 - 1986. He joined ITN in October 1986 as a sports correspondent whose first assignment was to cover England's successful Ashes tour of Australia as well as the America's Cup.
He stayed for four months in Australia and unexpectedly found himself reporting on the extraordinary "Spycatcher" trial.
He has covered all the major sporting events for ITN, including the Olympics, Wimbledon, the British Open, Rugby internationals, football news and cricket.
In 1995 he was seconded to ITV to report from South Africa on the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Since joining ITN in he has specialised in covering foreign events, travelling all round the globe. Based in Hong Kong in 1993 as Asia correspondent, he returned from 1996 until 1998 reporting on all the major events in the region including the handover of the island to the Chinese in July 1997.
From 1994 until 1996 he was based in Johannesburg as Africa correspondent. He returned to London in mid-1998 and since 1999 has been a special/senior correspondent. Occasional newscaster of weekend news bulletins on ITV and the ITN News Channel in August 1998 and since October 1999.
In May 2001 he presented ITV's reality game show 'Survivor'.
Since c. 2004, Mark became a more regular face in the newscaster's chair. He took over from Sir Trevor McDonald as the main anchor of late night weekday news programme on ITV in December 2005.
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Ian presents the pan regional bulletins for Meridian within GMTV and the South opt-out bulletins late morning and at lunchtime.
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 Khalid's broadcasting career began at the BBC; he was a producer at BBC Radio Leicester. He soon moved into TV and became the youngest presenter of the BBC's 'Look North' in Leeds, at the age of 24. Whilst at the BBC, he worked on various national current affairs programmes, such as 'Panorama'.
After twelve years with the BBC, he cross to TVS in 1982 to anchor TVS' 'Coast To Coast' from Southampton. He left the programme to produce documentaries in the mid-1980s, but still presented for TVS, fronting the business programme, 'Enterprise South'.
In the early days of TVS, 'Coast To Coast' viewers were treated to regular updates on this rather adorable puppy, named Coaster by viewers. He was Khalid's pet, and a regular guest in the studio, though his screen appearances ended when management decided that this sort of Blue Peter-esque escapade wasn't fitting for such a serious regional news programme.
He is currently Professor of business communications at Southampton University and also runs his own public affairs/media consultancy - The Aziz Corporation.
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 Lisa is probably best known in her role as anchor on Sky News, where she worked from 1993 until Autumn 2005. She began her television career at BBC West television in 1984, working on their regional news programme. In 1985, she switched sides, moving to HTV West as a reporter and presenter, where she remained until c. 1988. She then moved to TV-am, initially in a reporting role, but later becoming a news presenter, taking over from Gordon Honeycombe. Following the demise of TV-am, Lisa worked briefly for BBC World Service Television and the NBC Superchannel before moving to Sky News.
In September 2005, Lisa returned to Bristol where she is now one of the regular co-anchors on ITV West's 'The West Tonight'.
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One of the main anchors of Border TV's 'Lookaround' news programme.
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 Probably Anglia Television's best known newscaster, Bacon began his stint on the 'About Anglia' newsdesk, and as a continuity announcer in 1964, and stayed with the company until the mid to late-1980s. He often shared this duty with colleague Caroline Raison. After retiring, Bacon moved to sunnier climes - Greece.
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 ITN newscaster who worked on 'Channel 4 News', 1989 - 1998 and also the ITV 'Morning News', 1990s. Zeinab was also a presenter on 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990.
In 1998, she joined the BBC, and spent five years working on live political programmes based at Westminster. She then moved to radio, where she presented 'The World Tonight' on BBC Radio 4 and 'Newshour' on the BBC World Service.
In April 2005, Zeinab was announced as the new presenter of 'BBC Four News'.
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BBC Northern Ireland news and current affairs presenter in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 Central newscaster who has presented both the West and East Midlands editions of 'Central News'.
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Brian Baines was a regular presenter of 'Look North' bulletins from Leeds during the late-1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In fact, Brian was the first voice to be heard on 'Look North'. He was also one of the main continuity announcers for BBC North TV during the 1970s and early-1980s when BBC English regions had their own continuity. He still provided continuity into local programming on BBC North until the late-1980s.
He retired from BBC Leeds on April 25 1988. Sadly, Brian passed away on 30 June 2006, aged 75.
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 Long serving Ulster Television announcer and news reader during the 1970s and well into the 1980s. Retired from this role c. 1986.
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 (OBE). Born and educated in London, Richard Baker graduated from Cambridge University and served in the Royal Navy during World War 2, returning to London to work as an actor and teacher.
He joined the BBC as a radio announcer on the Third Programme and Home Service from 1950 until 1959.
Baker spoke the first words of the BBC's first television news bulletin - 'News And Newsreel' - on 5 July 1954, with the following announcement: "Here is an illustrated summary of the news. It will be followed by the latest film of events and happenings at home and abroad."
He also read the very first news flash on 31 October 1955 when he announced that HRH The Princess Margaret would not marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.
Baker also presented the BBC London regional programme 'Town and Around' from 1963 until 1967 and also narrated the BBC Children's TV programmes 'Mary, Mungo And Midge' (1969) and 'Teddy Edward' (1973).
He retired from his national news reader role on 31 December 1982 and remains the BBC's longest-serving news reader with 28 years of service. He was also a panellist on BBC TV's 'Face The Music', 1967 until 1984; and a BBC Radio 2 presenter since 1986, where he presented programmes including 'Omnibus' and 'Melodies For You'.
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 Pamela's broadcasting career started off in radio: she read the news on Downtown Radio from the early-1980s. She also presented on BBC Radio Ulster. Pamela's first appearance on Ulster Television as a continuity announcer was in 1984. As part of the continuing announcer's job, Pamela also read the news.
She left the announcing team around the start of the new franchise period in 1993 and went on to co-anchor the station's main news programme. She currently presents the leisure and lifestyle programme 'UTV Life'.
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By passing the 11-Plus, Greg gained entry to his local grammar school in North London, but education seemed to gain little purchase on his mind, which was focussed on tuning around the short-wave, discovering the existence of off-shore radio and determination to escape as soon as possible.
As a DJ on off-shore radio, Greg could be heard on Radio Essex from early-1966, then Radio 270, Radio 390 and briefly, before its demise, on Radio Caroline North. He has been a DJ and presenter at several local radio stations, including Breeze AM (as was), Beacon Radio (ditto), Two Counties Radio (ditto), LBC and, for four-and-a-half years in the late-1970s, at Radio Orwell.
As well as playing at gramophones, a presenter in those days needed to know all about meaningful speech, at which Greg, in hindsight, reckons he was particularly adept. At the time, he was perceived as 'esoteric' and even 'abstract' but he expresses in 2008 - and as 'technically' still a freelance voice-over, presenter and writer - a firm belief that radio was made for qualities such as his.
As Roger Scott (no relation to another broadcaster of the same name, who came to prominence in the UK in the early-1970s), Greg appeared in-vision as an announcer at Harlech from March 1968 to c. January 1969. His style of presentation - developed previously on off-shore radio - was deemed too risky and he received marching orders to the out-of-vision-only department. He remained there until his departure a couple of months later.
Freelance continuity (including at Granada) and voice-over work was Greg's professional occupation until reaching the announcer's desk at Anglia, where local news bulletins and presentation of the Birthday Club were delivered to the regional audience, some of whom objected to the long-haired 'object' on their screen!
Greg prides himself in being probably the only TV announcer to have been bought a short hair wig by his employer, as well as wishing his viewers "peace" at closedown. Surprisingly, he lasted a full year in Norwich, until October 1970, when the call came from the North East. His entertainment value was diluted again at Tyne Tees, due to all continuity being OOV. But this was rectified eventually, as an early-evening glory spot was introduced, featuring the announcer on camera revealing highlights of viewing ahead.
In Newcastle, in line with the policy of having the promos scripted and arranged by the announcers themselves, Greg quickly learned and perfected the art of sculpting imaginative and highly-creative blurb, which often had little to do with programme content. His association with the ITV company lasted until the lure of another spell of off-shore radio became irresistible in early-1972.
During his television days, Greg freelanced as an announcer at ATV and Southern, as well as revisiting Granada. Promotional trail voice-over work proved more sustainable and more successful. As the voice of Anglia for a few years in the 1980s, he travelled weekly (sometimes more) to Norwich. There was a weekly appointment in the voice-over booth at HTV for three years in the late-1980s and throughout the '80s and '90s, few weeks elapsed when Greg did not put his voice to LWT promos.
Voice-over work of all kinds had been a staple of his entire professional journey until the early-twenty-first century, when styles changed and his received pronounciation and great voice could no longer be disguised.
Greg's radio ambitions are not over yet! Tying-in with an interest in modern - i.e. twentieth and twenty-first century 'classical' music - he aims to interest before long a programme controller who really, really wants to incorporate into the schedule a regular, if not daily, excursion into the world of 'unlistenable' but actually highly intoxicating arrangements of sound. Mixed with Greg's intoxicating arrangement of words and intelligent, humourous world-view, large audiences are guaranteed!
He realises that by divulging this idea, to which he holds intellectual copyright, the concept could go walking. But nobody could execute it as well!
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Matt trained at Cardiff's journalism school. His first broadcasting experience was as a freelance at Red Dragon FM in Cardiff.
In 1999, he joined ITN where he spent two years working for Independent Radio News. In June 2001, Matt moved to the BBC, starting as a reporter on BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat' and later moving to a news reading role on the Sara Cox breakfast show. He was also a reporter for the BBC's 'Liquid News'.
Matt joined BBC London in 2003. He became a high-profile presenter there, fronting coverage of the July 07 bombings from King's Cross. In summer 2007, he made his presenting debut on the BBC 'Breakfast' programme.
On August 20 2007, it was announced that Matt would be joining 'Five News' from October 2007.
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Sharon was brought up in New Zealand. She went to the Australian Film and TV School and worked as a reporter and presenter across Australia and New Zealand.
Her UK broadcasting career began at BBC Radio Humberside. She then joined BBC Radio 4's 'File On 4', based in Manchester and the BBC's Special Documentaries Unit where she worked on stories all around the world.
She later moved to Newcastle and read the 'Night Network News' for BBC Radios Newcastle, Cumbria and Cleveland. Next stop was BBC News 24 where she performed a reporting role.
Sharon currently presents on 'Look North' for BBC North East & Cumbria.
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Ellie studied sociology at Bath University. On leaving university, Ellie's aspirations to work in television got off to a good start with a work placement on the BBC's 'Kilroy' programme; she later became Robert Kilroy-Silk's PA. She moved on to join GMTV, as a runner initially but went on to become a trainee producer.
It was then back to the books to study for a post-graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham University. Ellie subsequently got a position as a trainee journalist with Carlton; she later moved to HTV West as a journalist. She returned to GMTV as Scotland correspondent.
In October 2003, she joined BBC 'Look East' as a presenter and reporter, covering the West of the region.
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Faye's first broadcasting job was with EBN (now CNBC) in late-1996. She later presented for '5 News' (also carried out a reporting role there), ITV Yorkshire, the ITV News Channel. GMTV and ITV London.
Other TV projects: 'Package Holiday Undercover' (ITV 1); 'St Jimmy's' (ITV 1).
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Co-host of 'Granada Tonight' until the programme relaunched under its original name 'Granada Reports', in 2001.
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Long serving YTV reporter and 'Calendar'/news bulletin presenter who has also fronted the company's 'Tonight' programme and 'Live Lunch' show. Gaynor later anchored Calendar 'Lunchtime Live'.
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 Joined ITN as a reporter in 1975. She was an ITN newscaster from 1982 until March 1989 and also between January 1991 and 1998.
Carol was a presenter on the 'Channel 4 Daily' from 1989 until 1990 and also appeared as a relief newscaster on Channel 4's 'The Big Breakfast' in 2001.
In 2003, she presented on the ITV News Channel during the early days of the Gulf War.
Carol returned to ITN for one night (23 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Felicity started in radio in 1991; in 1994, she went freelance as a journalist, offering her services to various TV and radio companies.
In 1996, she moved to Meridian TV, where she was a sports reporter and presenter, fronting the sports news on 'Meridian Tonight. She also presented the local football programme there - 'A406'.
In 1999, she moved to London and became a presenter and reporter with 'London Tonight'.
Felicity joined ITV News in June 2001, starting as a sports correspondent. She later became a regular sports news presenter. Felicity also presented on the ITV News Channel and fronted ITV News bulletins on an occasional basis.
From September 2006, Felicity has been an anchor on Al Jazeera International.
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'Granada Reports' journalist and news reader who was one of the main presenters of the programme's successor, 'Granada Tonight' in the late-1990s.
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Central TV West Midlands reporter/news reader.
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Louise was a presenter and breakfast news reader on BBC 'Reporting Scotland' in the 1980s. In 1989 she was part of the launch team on BBC 'Newsroom South East' where she was a news reader and presenter. She remained there until the early-1990s before returning to her native Scotland and BBC Scotland, where she resumed her previous role with 'Reporting Scotland'.
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