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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'.
Bradford born Christa Ackroyd, one of the main presenters of 'Calendar' for more than 10 years 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.
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 was one of the regular faces of ITV daytime in the early-200s - presenting 'Loose Women' and '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).
(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.
Kate retired from BBC 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'.
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. She presented a weekly three hour show for BBC Thames Valley radio and 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).
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.
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'.
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).
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'.
Lucy's journalistic career began as a reporter with BBC local radio - BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Hereford and 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.Gaelic speaking presenter of Grampian Television's 'Telefios' Gaelic language news magazine in the 1990s.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.
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.John's broadcasting career began at ILR station Radio Tees. He then joined BBC Newcastle before moving to London as a reporter/presenter on BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat' programme. He presented 'Thames News' with Andrew Gardener during the 1980s.
John is currently a correspondent/presenter for BBC Network News. He occasionally presents on the BBC News Channel. During his career at the BBC, he initially specialised in local government, covering the rise and fall of the poll tax and the Westminster gerrymandering scandal. He has since covered general news too, including the Harold Shipman murders and the war in Kosovo.
John was educated at Dialstone Boys School, Stockport, Stockport Boys Grammar School and the University of Leeds. He chairs conferences and seminars for a range of public, private and charity organisations. Among his hobbies he lists walking, music, island-hopping and helping his wife and daughters with horses and a pygmy goat.
Former Thames TV and BSB news presenter.
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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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(Formerly Gytha Hutton). Gytha started off as a trainee journalist on the Surrey Herald Newspaper in 1984. She freelanced for the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror before joining the Evening Post at Reading. She was later headhunted for County Sound radio in Guildford.
In 1990, Gytha moved on to Thames TV in London where she co-anchored 'Thames News' with Andrew Gardner, covering many major events such as the Marchioness disaster and IRA bombings.
When Thames lost it's franchise, she moved to Meridian Television in Newbury where she did presenting and reporting. She left at the end of 2000 to live in Brisbane, Australia, where she still does radio reports for a New Zealand radio programme and runs a photography business, covering real estate, weddings, portraits and business.
Hobbies: gym, tennis, TV, news and reading.
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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.
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.
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.
Presenter with 'Central News' (East).
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 And 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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Helen is a presenter on BBC 'East Midlands Today'. Previously, she was a producer and news reader at BBC Radio Leicester.
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'.
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.
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'.
One of the main anchors of Border TV's 'Lookaround' news programme.
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. 
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.
Central newscaster who has presented both the West and East Midlands editions of 'Central News'.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.
Long serving Ulster Television announcer and news reader during the 1970s and well into the 1980s. Retired from this role c. 1986.
(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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During the 1980s, Peter worked at BBC West in Bristol, presenting news bulletins and filling in as co-host on the main 'Points West' programme alongside Viv Creegor and Graham Purches.
In 1988 he moved to Granada TV In Manchester where he hosted the nightly 'Granada Action' social information programme; he also presented the breakfast show on Key 103 radio.
Peter now runs Bakermedia, a Stockport-based broadcast and business video production company. As well as non-broadcast projects for a variety of well-known clients, Bakermedia has produced thirty episodes of the children's hit show 'Prank Patrol'.
Hobbies: music writing. Peter has had c. fifteen songs released on various albums around the world.
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Jenni worked as a continuity announcer for BBC TV presentation between 1978 and 1980. She also did some freelance announcing and newsreading (in-vision) for the BBC in Bristol (1979) and Norwich (1980). Later she read the news for LBC/IRN and presented programmes for BBC Radio Sussex. Jenni returned to acting and now works as an actress/voice-over artist in London and at home via ISDN.
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 presented the lifestyle and leisure programme 'UTV Life' from 1999 to 2009. In May 2009, Pamela returned to UTV's continuity department, after seventeen years. She's also a relief weather presenter.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
Co-host of 'Granada Tonight' until the programme relaunched under its original name 'Granada Reports', in 2001.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'.
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.
'Granada Reports' journalist and news reader who was one of the main presenters of the programme's successor, 'Granada Tonight' in the late-1990s.Central TV West Midlands reporter/news reader.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'.
Main anchor of 'Westcountry Live' who took over the role from David Foster early in 1997. Richard was already well known to television news viewers as an ITN newscaster on the overnight service and during 'This Morning', and, before that, was one of the main anchors of BBC South East's 'London Plus' in the mid-1980s.Paul's broadcasting career began with BBC Radio as a regional reporter in the south east before moving on to BBC TV's 'Town and Around'. He later moved to LBC/IRN where he was a news director. Next was Southern TV, where he was a reporter, based at Dover; then it was on to TVS, reporting and presenting on the 'Coast to Coast' programme from the Maidstone studios. He was the first reporter on the scene of the Deal (Marines) bombing by the IRA; he also covered the sinking of the Free Enterprise at Zeebrugge.
Following the demise of TVS, Paul joined the Ministry of Defence as a press officer working with, among others (as a military media advisor to the late Princess Diana and more recently, the former chief of the defence staff), Admiral Lord Michael Boyce.
Sue has been a regular presenter on the BBC Midlands regional news programme 'Midlands Today' since 1983, presenting the breakfast bulletins initially and becoming one of the main presenters by 1987.
Sue joined the BBC on August 14 1977 as a secretary. She later became a studio floor assistant and then Station Assistant for regional television. She moved to London for a time to work on 'Blue Peter' before moving back to Birmingham to take up a presenting role on the breakfast slots for 'Midlands Today'.
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Tanya graduated from Oxford with a degree in metallurgy and the science of materials.
Her broadcasting career began in 1993 when she became a business and political reporter for CNBC Europe; she also presented 'The Moneywheel' and 'FT Business Tonight' there.
Later Tanya presented a nightly business news programme for Sky News; at CNN International she reported from the London International Financial Futures Exchange. She also worked for London based News Direct Radio 97.3.
Tanya joined the BBC in 1998. She has worked as a reporter and presenter for 'Working Lunch' and was also the regular business presenter and occasional main co-presenter on BBC One's 'Breakfast'.
Since 2001, she has been a regular business presenter on BBC World and BBC News 24. She has been the New York based presenter for 'World Business Report' since 2005.
YTV reporter/presenter mainstay in the late-1980s and 1990s who is now a freelance television director and producer.
Graham Bell is fondly remembered as an Anglia TV announcer, from 1966, and co-host of the nightly news magazine programme 'About Anglia', a job which he held for 18 years from 1969, making him one of Anglia's longest serving presenters. During this period he fronted many other programmes for Anglia, including 'Portrait Of A Village' and 'Miss Anglia', as well as religious and documentary series. During his time on 'About Anglia', Bell worked with several co-presenters, including Jane Probyn, Pam Rhodes, Christine Webber and Patrick Anthony.
In the late-1980s Anglia's news operations were re-vamped, first with a re-launched 'About Anglia', and then as 'Anglia News' with separate editions for the two halves of the region (although both broadcast simultaneously from Anglia's Norwich HQ). Graham Bell switched back to continuity announcing and voice-overs for the regional Crimestoppers programme, as well as hosting the BC birthday greetings slot. Sadly, he died in 1997, aged 57, after a career spanning 31 years with Anglia Television.
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Alison - a trained journalist - was one of the launch presenters on the ITN News Channel in 2000. In 2003, she moved to Sky News where she presented on the 'Sunrise' programme. CNN International was the next stop for Alison; she took up a presenting job there in 2004.
However, not long after switching to CNN, Alison was arrested outside a restaurant with James Hewitt, with whom she was in a relationship at the time. They were accused of being in possession of cocaine. Alison was later released without charge. Following adverse publicity in the press, Alison was forced to resign from her job.
She later turned up as a radio presenter on LBC, occupying various timeslots before being allocated a regular Friday night show. The programme came to an end in April 2006 but Alison continues to act as a fill-in presenter at the station.
In late-2004, Alison launched Global Media - a training programme for students hoping to get into broadcasting.
Jason received a BA in English Literature from Birmingham University. Other education includes: MA in Contemporary Japanese Studies, Essex University/Osaka University of Foreign Languages (distinction); post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, University of Central Lancashire (distinction); BTEC Professional Development Certificate in Management Studies, Manchester Open Learning/Granada Media (distinction).
Professional career outline:
1992 - 1995: Jason worked for the Japanese TV company TV Asahi as an on-screen reporter and producer.
1996 - 1997: reporter with BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Radio Newcastle and BBC TV's 'Look North' in Newcastle.
1998 - 2001: reporter and presenter with Tyne Tees TV in Newcastle. Also directed half hour documentaries.
2001 - 2006: producer/director with Granada Factual North (Leeds) making programmes for ITV 1 and Channel 4.
2006 - present: freelance director working on documentaries and drama. Most recently, Jason has been directing 'Emmerdale'.
Andy is a presenter on 'Central News'.
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Sharon's TV career began with RTÉ in 1994 when she became a regular presenter of Nuacht. When the RTÉ Network 2 news programme was relaunched in late-1997, Sharon became one of the programme's main presenters.
In Autumn 2005, Sharon became a regular co-anchor on RTÉ's flagship 'Six-One' news programme.
Tony was a presenter on Southern TV's 'Day By Day', 1961 - 1966 and BBC Two's 'Late Night Line-Up', 1967 - 1972. He also reviewed films for 'Pebble Mill At One' in the late-1970s.
Jackie is one of the most familiar faces on Scottish television. She presents the BBC Scotland regional news programme 'Reporting Scotland' on television and over on BBC Radio Scotland she hosts 'Choice Cuts' on Saturday mornings. Jackie also presents many annual television shows such as the annual 'Hogmanay Show' and 'Children In Need'.
She has many other strings to her bow: newspaper columnist; host at corporate events; after dinner speaker; TV writer/producer
Laura began a successful modelling career at the age of 16. Twenty years later, in 2003, she embarked on a new career as a beauty columist in the Ireland On Sunday newspaper.
Lauara has been an occasional presenter for TV Three's 'Ireland AM' since 2004. She also reports for the programme on a freelance basis.
Border TV news reader and presenter, and co-anchor of 'Lookaround' in the mid and late-1990s.
Sara was a presenter and reporter with BBC 'Look East' from 1991 - 1992. She left ''Look East' to travel in south America. Sadly, she was involved in a serious road accident there, and spent a long time recuperating in hospital.
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Ashley started out as an entertainment reporter on a local cable TV station in Birmingham. He was a reporter on Live TV in Liverpool before moving to its sister station in Birmingham.
Ashley then headed off to London where he was a reporter and presenter with 'London Today'/'London Tonight'.
He later moved across to the BBC, where he reported for 'Breakfast News'.
Ashley is now entertainment reporter with BBC 'Midlands Today'; he also occasionally presents the programme.
Other TV credits: 'Dream Ticket' (LWT); 'Inside Out' (BBC); 'Watchdog' (BBC).
Daniel is a reporter with BBC News. Previously, he presented 'Westcountry Live'.
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Jennie graduated from Warwick University in 1972 after which she began her career in journalism. For five years she worked on local papers as a reporter.
In 1977, she joined the BBC as sub-editor in BBC Radio News. BBC radio news reporter, 1985 - 1989; BBC TV news reporter, 1989; court reporter, 1989 - 1990.
Jennie was appointed in the BBC's court and royal correspondent in 1990. She became a relief news reader from March 1991. She was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' from 1988, and also a relief presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1992 and 1994.
She's remembered by many for her stint in the jungle on ITV 1’s 'I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' (February 2004) when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and also ate a variety of live insects.
More recently she became one of the presenters of the BBC’s 'Cash In The Attic'. She is also a regular contributor on Channel 4’s 'Countdown'.
Other recent TV projects: 'Celebrities Under Pressure'; 'Too Many Cooks'; 'Stars In The Fast Cars'; 'The Big Call'.
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Joined ITN as a reporter in 1955. He served as a reporter until 1967, including 'Roving Report' in 1957, 'Dateline London', 1961 - 1962 and 'Dateline', 1962 - 1967.
He joined ITN's newscasting team in December 1961 until 1962 and again from 1967 until November 1979, famous for fronting the flagship 'News At Ten'. He was diplomatic correspondent for four years and an original member of the 'News At Ten' team in 1967. He appeared on six election nights from 1959 to 1979.
Reginald died on 27 May 1984.
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Jules presented on 'BBC LDN' and 'Breakfast' in the early-2000s.
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Anna has a degree in geography from Oxford University. Following her graduation, she opted for a career in journalism and spent a year with Granada Television as a researcher. She then took a post-graduate course in journalism in Cardiff.
In 1991, she joined BBC North as a radio and TV reporter; later, she presented on 'Look North'. In 1995, Anna moved to Sky as a reporter. She later turned to presenting and has fronted all of Sky's major news programmes at some point. During her time with Sky she has covered many major events such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Kosovo conflict and the death of Princess Diana.
Anna is still one of Sky's main news presenters.
Frank was a presenter on BBC North East's regional news programme from 1962 until 1964.
The former BBC TV 'Grandstand' and 'Breakfast Time' anchorman joined LWT in the late-1980s to present 'Six O'Clock Live', the company's flagship news programme introduced as a response to the IBA's concern about its previously poor local news output.
This news programme was complemented by 'LWT News' through the rest of the weekend. Frank also did a stint as presenter of TV-am's 'Good Morning Britain'. He also worked for Sky News in the early days where he presented 'The Frank Bough Interview', and also presented the Rugby Union World Cup on ITV in 1991.
He presented shows on LBC radio in the mid-1990s. His most recent TV appearance was a guest appearance on the 'Grandstand' 40th anniversary special.
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Ana graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1997, with a BA Hons in broadcast journalism. She spent three years with Children's BBC (1998 - 2001), presenting the links between the programmes. She then moved to a reporting job with BBC Three's 'Liquid News' and also became a radio presenter with LBC.
Since 2005, Ana has been presenting for Sky News.
Adam Boulton is a Sky News reporter/presenter.
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Westcountry TV news reporter and news bulletin presenter who also occasionally co-hosts the main evening news magazine programme.Sally is a reporter/presenter on BBC 'East Midlands Today'. Previously, Sally worked as a presenter/reporter for 'Lookaround' (ITV Border) and 'Central News' (ITV Central).
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Long serving Channel Television presenter and reporter from the 1960s and 1970s, known for his trademark bow ties.TVS news reporter and news reader in the South East of the region, who often stood in for Mike Debens as the anchor of 'Coast To Coast' from Maidstone.
The former host of BBC Radio Ulster's 'Inside Politics' in the late-1980s and early-1990s and now fronting BBC Northern Ireland's TV coverage of activities in the Northern Ireland Assembly; he also presents on BBC Radio Ulster's 'Good Morning Ulster'.
Conor was a regular presenter of regional news programme 'Inside Ulster' from c. 1992 - 1996 and later 'Newsline 6.30' in the late-1990s.
Neil joined 'Anglia News' (west) as a reporter in August 2007.
Previously, Neil worked at Westcountry TV as a news reporter, covering the Dorset patch for the station, before moving to London to become political correspondent for 'Westcountry Live' and for 'Central News' in the south, west and east Midlands. He subsequently had a short stint as Westcountry's political editor.
(Formerly Barbara Palmer). Barbara was an announcer and news reader with Ulster Television from 1980 to 1992. She graduated with a BA (Hons) First Class in English at Queen's University in 1997.A former announcer at Ulster Television, Alan also worked as a journalist at the Belfast Telegraph. He later moved to New Zealand where he became a wine producer.Jon is a former 'East Midlands Today' presenter. By the early-2000s, he was reporting for BBC national news.
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Lindsey Brancher is a presenter on BBC World News. Her BBC career began in 1991 at the long of the channel.
Lindsey career in journalism began back in 1982 as a trainee newspaper reporter in north London. In 1988 she became an assistant producer in the news department of London Weekend Television before moving to Sky News at its launch in March 1989.
Anglia TV presenter.Colin joined Sky News in 1997 as a reporter. He is now a presenter on Sky News. Previously, Colin worked as a reporter with BBC News and ITV News.
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Andy's broadcasting life began with BBC Radio York, where he was a presenter/producer. In the early-1990s, Andy left the Corporation to become the new breakfast presenter on Pirate FM in Cornwall. However, two years later, the BBC asked him back to present the mid morning programme at BBC Radio Cornwall.
In the late-1990s, having spent four years at BBC Radio Cornwall, he opted to spend some time with the 'Spotlight' programme to gain experience in television. He has remained with the programme since then, in a reporting/presenting role.
Anna presents the News Round-up for 'Central News' (South).Sean is a former Sky News and 'Westcountry Live' presenter. He later became a reporter for BBC national news.
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Colin started off in women's magazines. He then moved into motoring journalism, PR and broadcasting. He joined BBC North East/Cumbria to run the BBC Radio Newcastle sports desk.
Colin now presents the news on the BBC North East/Cumbria edition of 'Look North'.
Tim was born on December 24 1929, and educated at Summer Fields, Eton and Geneva University. After National Service, he trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. In the early-1950s, he joined the BBC as a radio announcer. From 1955 to 1957, he headed Radio Hong Kong’s English programmes. He then returned to the UK, and joined BBC TV, where he was an in-vision announcer and news reader. In 1959, he moved to the 'other side', to become one of ITN's first newscasters. His debonair good looks and deep, velvet voice made him very popular.
Tim’s career as a broadcaster in radio and television covered an enormous repertoire. He presented 'Roundabout' on the Light Programme, and produced special documentary features for ITN and Pathe Pictorial. Sports fans will remember him from ITV’s 'Let’s Go'. He interviewed the Shah of Iran before his downfall, and during a report on Turkish Baths, he unintentionally became the first nude newscaster on television - an event still remembered by many. He also made cameo appearances as a newscaster in various feature films. Among the television commercials he presented were the 'Stork Margarine Challenge' and the 'Daily Sketch'. In 1977, he presented a spoof science programme for Anglia Television called 'Alternative Three', in which millions were duped into thinking that scientists were being taken to colonise the moon because earth was doomed.
In 1975, he was elected to Kent County Council in a by-election, and returned unopposed for a second term. He was appointed to the Court of London University as a County Councillor. In 1979, he was elected as the Conservative MP for Gravesend, winning the seat from Labour with a large majority. He left Parliament in 1987, and continued his broadcasting consultancy, training many broadcasters, businessmen and politicians; he also chaired a District Health Authority.
Tim died on Sunday March 22 2009, aged 79. He married twice, and has six children.
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Announcer with Granada from the late-1980s up to the late-1990s, where he still works, as the voice of' Stars in Their Eyes'. One of Granada's daytime news readers and also a reporter for 'Granada Reports'. In the 1990s, Andrew also narrated some of the later 'World in Action' documentaries. He can also be heard on radio commercial and corporate voice-over work.
Fern Britton got her first television job with Westward Television in Plymouth as an in-vision continuity announcer and news reader from 1980. In 1982 she was a presenter on BBC South West's 'Spotlight' and a year later she was a newscaster for BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time'.
She was headhunted by TVS in Southampton by new managing director Greg Dyke in 1985 and became main co-anchor of the nightly news magazine, 'Coast To Coast', with Fred Dinenage. Fern left the company in the early-1990s and was soon back on national television, standing in for Judy Finnigan on ITV's 'This Morning'. She is best known for her role as host of the hit cookery game show 'Ready, Steady, Cook', and is currently co-host with Philip Schofield of ITV's 'This Morning'.
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Adrian is a former 'Central News' and ITV News Channel presenter.
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With a very distinctive, deep, rich voice, Peter was an announcer at Southern TV from 1969 until 1971. He then became a news reader for BBC Norwich's 'Look East', before moving to BBC Television Centre where he was a BBC TV announcer for thirty years from 1971 until his retirement in 2001.
Peter died in early December 2006 following a sixteen-month battle with cancer.
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Channel Television reporter and presenter, and also programme director and news editor. Sadly, he died recently.ITN newscaster, August 1956 until 1965.Ben was educated at Sutton Valance School and Keble College, Oxford. He received a diploma with distinction from the Cardiff Centre for Journalism Studies.
On leaving college, Ben joined Radio Clyde as a reporter. In 1985, he took up a reporting job at Radio City Liverpool. A year later, he joined Independent Radio News, covering stories such as the Hungerford massacre.
In July 1988, he joined BBC TV News. During his career at the Corporation, he has held a number of key positions within the news division: foreign affairs correspondent (1988 - 1991), reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War; Moscow correspondent (1991 - 1995), covering the collapse of communism and the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev; foreign affairs correspondent (1995 - 1998); special correspondent (1998 - 2006), covering domestic and international stories.
Since early-2006, Ben has been an anchor on BBC News 24, covering the 7pm - 10pm weekday shift.
A lecturer at Belfast 'Tech', Aidan took up part-time continuity announcing and newsreading duties at UTV around the time of the station's relaunch in June 1993. He continues to mix lecturing with his UTV role.
From summer 2006, Aidan appeared on screen minus his trademark moustache.
Joined the BBC in 1989 as researcher on 'Panorama'. She became a reporter on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1992 and fronted 'Newsroom South East' breakfast bulletins in 1993.
After time as a reporter on BBC Two's current affairs series 'First Sight' in 1994, Fiona became a relief presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1996 and 1997. She was relief BBC TV national news reader in October and November 1997, and joined permanently in March 1999, mainly presenting the 'Six O'Clock News'. She later became one of the regular presenters of the 'Ten O'Clock News'.
She presented 'The Antiques Show' in 1999 and later 'Crimewatch UK' alongside Nick Ross.
In the early days of her television career, Lynda spent a brief period as a television announcer with BBC Northern Ireland - c. late-1980s. She went on to become one of the regular presenters of the BBC's local news programme in Northern Ireland, 'Inside Ulster'.
She later appeared on national screens, presenting alongside Rolf Harris on 'Animal Hospital' in 1996 and also filing reports for the 'Holiday' programme.
In 1996, Lynda defected to UTV, where she co-presented the main news programme with husband Mike Nesbitt until February 2006, when Mike left the station. Lynda still co-presents the programme.
In 2004, Lynda was an occasional presenter on the ITV News Channel; she also presented on ITV 1's 'London Tonight'. From November 2005 to 2008, Lynda presented her own show on Belfast radio station, U105.8.
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Scottish Television reporter and presenter, and currently one of the co-anchors of 'Scotland Today'.
Began his broadcasting career on BBC Radio Bristol and then moved to Harlech Television as a reporter. Joined BBC TV News as a home reporter, 1973 - 1975; industrial correspondent, 1975 - 1976; UK North Sea energy correspondent, 1976; Scotland correspondent, 1980; special correspondent, 1981 - 1983; South Africa correspondent, 1983 - 1987.
Michael Buerk's report on the famine and drought in Ethiopia led to Bob Geldof organising the successful Live Aid concert in 1985.
Buerk was a BBC TV news reader from January 1982 until August 1983, and again in February/March 1985. He joined the newsreading team permanently from October 1987, with his trademark wink at the end of bulletins. He started off as one of the main presenters on the 'One O'Clock News' and later moved to the 'Nine O'Clock News'.
Buerk retired from BBC TV News in late-2002. He has also presented '999', the BBC's Eclipse '99 coverage and BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze'.
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Carol has a degree in English and drama fromt the University of East Anglia.
She joined the BBC in 1989, working initially at BBC Radio Norfolk.
She joined 'Look East' in the late-1990s, working as a reporter and presenter.
Lukwesa was a broadcast assistant at the BBC Weather Centre at Television Centre in London. She moved to BBC 'East Midlands Today' where she presented the weather and eventually moved on to become the anchor of the lunchtime edition of the programme as well as stand-in co-presenter for the main evening programme.
C. 2005, Lukwesa moved to Sky News as a presenter.
Kevin started off in the print industry with the East Anglian Daily Times. Then, in 1988, he joined BBC Radio Norfolk as a news producer. He subsequently worked as a news editor at BBC Radio Suffolk (from the early-1990s).
He later moved to London, working on the television newsgathering desk and also as a news organiser.
In 2001, he moved back to Suffolk where he took up a post as reporter with BBC 'Look East'. Kevin occasionally presents 'Look East' in Norwich.
Kay's professional career began at the Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan, where she was a reporter. Later, she worked at Tyne Tees Television before joining TV-am in 1985, as a reporter and occasional news reader. From 1987 she presented TV-am's first hour, filling in for Caroline Righton and covering Anne Diamond's maternity leave.
She moved to the then fledgling Sky News in 1988.
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Christine was an announcer/news reader with BBC North West from 1973 to 1981. She made her debut on Princess Anne's wedding day - November 14 1973.
In July 1975 she became the only female BBC TV (Network) announcer amongst eighteen men until January 1976. She returned as a freelance holiday relief announcer from 1977 to 1979. Christine also announced at Grampian Television in northern Scotland.
Christine currently runs the Lunchbox Theatre Company, writing and performing historical plays for museums and schools. With Voice-overs UK she has recorded over 1,000 commercials and telephone prompts. She has also worked for brand leaders including Cadbury, BT, Reebok, ICI, Rolls Royce and Marks and Spencer.
Christine runs presentation skills courses and works for Firework Factory Poetry as a performance specialist.
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(Sir). One of ITN's most famous newscasters, Alastair Burnet joined ITN as political editor in 1963 for a year. He went on to report for 'Dateline', 1963 - 1964, and 'Dateline Westminster' at the same time.
He became a relief ITN newscaster from February 1963 until 1964 and became permanent as an original member of 'News At Ten' team in July 1967 until 1972.
He left to join BBC TV's 'Panorama' as a presenter from 1972 until 1974.
Burnet returned to the ITN newscasting team from June 1976 until August 1991. He has also presented Thames TV's 'TV Eye' and 'This Week'. During his career, he also had spells in print journalism as editor, The Economist, 1965 - 1974, and Daily Express, 1974 - 1976. He was knighted in 1984.
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Andrew was a continuity announcer and news reader with Border TV from 1989 to 1996. He was also responsible for Border's on-screen image and on air promotions. He moved very successfully into television management in 1996, and is currently one of the owners, and the chief operating officer of Film24, a channel all about film.
Reporter and news reader for Ulster TV's 'Friday Sportscast' and then 'UTV Reports' in the early-1970s who moved to Granada later in the decade. After working on 'Granada Reports' as a reporter/presenter, Burns found national fame in 1977 as the host of the company's 'Krypton Factor' game show. The show had a successful eighteen year run.
In January 1997, he returned to the North West as host of the BBC's 'North West Tonight'.
Other TV radio credits include: 'World In Action' (Granada); 'Today' (BBC Radio 4).
Keith began announcing and news reading with Ulster Television in the early-1980s. He made the crossover to presenting in the late-1980s when he took over the 'Police Six' programme (later 'Crimecall') from Charles Witherspoon.
Keith was rarely seen in his announcing role after the station's relaunch in 1993. He is a partner in the Burnmac production company - which produced UTV's 'Crimecall' programme in its final years.
'Crimecall' was cancelled in 2001. Keith has been reading the news on radio since 2000: with Downtown/Cool FM until autumn 2002; currently with BBC Radio Ulster.
Nigel began his TV career with TVS in 1984, reporting and presenting news bulletins. He was the first TV reporter on the scene of the Hungerford massacre in 1987. Gunman Michael Ryan, who killed 16 people, was still firing shots as Nigel and his crew arrived in the town.
In 1993, when Meridian took over the franchise, Nigel began freelancing for them and later set up a production company. He now makes corporate films and still freelances for Sky, ITV and the BBC.
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Mike started out as an actor and was also the lead singer in a band. He later decided that journalism was the right path for him and joined the Hampshire Chronicle newspaper in Winchester. He also had spells at newspapers in Windsor and Derby.
BBC Radio Solent gave Mike his first broadcasting break in 1990; he was a trainee reporter at the station. Television was next: Mike was a news, sport and entertainment reporter/presenter with the BBC's 'South Today' programme.
Mike was one of the first faces to appear on BBC News 24 when it launched in 1997. He still presents the sports news there and on BBC World.
Alex was a producer for the ITV News Channel at the channel's launch in 2000. He then moved to a reporting job at BBC South West, working for the 'Spotlight' programme. In 2005, he reported extensively on the London bombings for BBC 'Breakfast'. He then had a short stint as a presenter on 'BBC London News' before being appointed BBC News South West correspondent.Presenter with 'Central News' (West) in the 1990s.
Penny started her journalistic career with the Western Mail in Cardiff before her long association with the BBC, starting as a reporter at Radio Brighton in 1979.
She was asked to join the team starting up the new station in Lincolnshire in 1980 as a producer, and read the station's first ever bulletin. In 1983, she landed a four month attachment with the new BBC 'Breakfast Time' as an assistant producer - but got that cliched 'lucky break' six weeks later - and became a reporter for five years. She also presented the local news bulletins (South East regional opt-out) and ocasionally, 'London Plus'.
In 1987, she joined Yorkshire TV's 'Calendar' as a reporter and also occasionally presented alongside the legendary Richard Whiteley. In 1988, she returned to London and combined presenting 'Newsroom South East' with the regional documentary series 'Friday Reports' and an events/entertainment programme 'Weekend'.
In 1989, she began a long stint as a presenter/reporter on 'Look East' in Norwich where she also reported/presented on regional documentaries and an environment series.
For two years from 1997, she headed the fundraising and PR team at a children's hospice in Cambridge. In 1999, she moved to Yorkshire and freelanced as a reporter/presenter for Tyne Tees, Yorkshire TV and BBC Look North. In 2002, after graduating with a first class honours degreee from York University, she worked as head of communications for an NHS Primary Care Trust.
She returned to BBC Look North in 2004, where she is currently health correspondent.
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Cameron is a news reporter for BBC Scotland. He has also presented the regional news programme 'Reporting Scotland'.Having completed studies in journalism Claire moved straight into her chosen career in the print and radio industries; her radio work included spells with East Coast Radio and Channel 103FM in Jersey. After four years, she made the move into TV, working initially for TV Three before moving to Channel 5 and the ITN News Channel.
She returned to Ireland, in 2001, becoming a presenter with TV Three's breakfast show, 'Ireland AM'. Later Claire switched to anchoring the main news programmes on TV Three. In 2004 she was voted TV Personality Of The Year at the Irish Film and Television Awards.
Susan is a relief TV news reader at RTÉ. Her main role is a news reporter.
Alma's broadcasting career began at BBC Radio 3 in the 1970s, where, she tells us, "her Scots accent provoked protests from the more reactionary listeners". She then moved to television as a Network BBC announcer - one of the first to sport a Scottish accent. Later, she switched back to radio - BBC Radios 1 and 2 - before moving to BBC Scotland in the early-1980s.
As BBC Scotland announcers were also news readers, Alma gained some exposure and was a favourite with viewers for her warm, friendly manner. She was on duty on the last night of the COW globe in 1991 and is well-remembered by 'pres' enthusiasts for saying "goodbye cruel world" at closedown before treating viewers to one last "extra long look" at it! Alma left the BBC in the mid-1990s.
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Anglia TV presenter.Mark joined RTÉ in 1977 and was one of the original presenters on RTÉ Radio 2 (later renamed 2FM). He left 2FM in 1989 and teamed up with Dennis O'Brien to apply for a radio licence. The successful application became 98FM and Mark presented on the station for seven years. He then moved to the national station Today FM where he hosted a mid morning music and talk show.
In September 1999, Mark switched to TV becoming one of the presenters on TV Three's new news and entertainment breakfast programme 'Ireland AM'.
Zany Southern Television reporter (1979 - 1981) who joined Central in 1982 to present the 'Newshound' slot on 'Central News'.Latterly, Lynda-Jayne Campbell - an announcer/news reader at Ulster Television between 1975 and 1978 before moving to Downtown Radio as a presenter. Lynda, who overcame breast cancer after a long battle with the illness, sadly died from a heart attack in 2000.
Stephanie's broadcasting career began with BBC Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s where she presented a movie review programme, 'The Video Picture Show'. She later became a news presenter with Sky News.
By the late-1990s Stephanie was freelancing and has turned up presenting the news on GMTV and BBC News 24.
Mary is an RTÉ TV news reporter and occasional news presenter.
Tina started out with the BBC, where she was the first presenter with BBC Radio Ulster's Traffic and Travel Unit. She later moved to the newsroom at Downtown Radio.
In 1994, she joined the UTV continuity announcing team. However, Tina quit her announcing role within a few years to focus on news reporting and various presenting roles. She presented the lifestyle programme 'UTV Life' and occasionally presented on the main evening news programme.
Since the departure of Kate Smith, Tina has become a regular presenter on UTV's main news programmes.
In-vision continuity announcer for Channel Television who went on to work in sales and marketing for the station's sister company, Creative Channel, which produces corporate and commercial video.
Career overview:
• 1995 - 1997: Channel Television in-vision continuity announcer.
• 1995 - 2005: Channel Television programme presenter, including news, weather, lottery, 'Puffin's Plaice', 'Diary'.
• 1996 - 2003: news presenter for local GMTV opt-outs ('Newsline') produced by Channel Television.
• 1999 - 2005: sales and marketing executive for Creative Channel - production arm of Channel Television.
• 2005 - 2007: corporate account Manager for Creative Channel, Channel Television Commercial Production and Airtime dept, securing corporate and commercial production and airtime projects and sponsorship contracts for corporate productions and local programmes.
• 2005 - 2007: business break manager: founder, sales, scripting and presenting of new concept for corporate TV advertising.
Theatre career:
• Pre-2002: Cell block girl Lipshitz - 'Chicago'; Dorcas - 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'; 'Godspell' - various; 'Cinderella' - Prince Charming; 'Poor Dirty Harry' - pianist and magician's assistant; 'Ziggy Stardust' - various; 'Dionysus' - various; 'House of Bernada Alba' - Adela; 'Wizard of Oz' - Dorothy.
• 2002: Mary Magdalene - 'Jesus Christ Supers', Jersey Opera House.
• 2003: Eva Peron - 'Evita', Green Room, Jersey Opera House.
• 2005: Lady MacBeth - 'MacBeth', Samares Players, Samares.
• 2006: Lady Capulet - 'Romeo and Juliet', Samares Players, Samares.
• 2008: Optimistic Voice and various cameo - 'Wizard of Oz', Jersey Opera House.
• 2009: Yvette - 'Allo Allo' - Curtain Up Theatre Group, Jersey Arts Centre.
• 2009: Lilli Vanessi/Kate - 'Kiss Me Kate', JADC, Jersey Opera House.
• 2009: Porcha - 'Merchant of Venice', Samares Players, Samares.
Singing career:
• Pre-1998: Liason - lead singer 5-piece charts band; John Le Story - backing vocalist; Hit 'n' Run - lead female singer - 6-iece rock band; Foxy - lead singer - 5-piece pop and chart band; Crosswinds - lead singer - 4-piece restaurant and dance band.
• 1998: Flipside - lead singer, 5-piece rock band.
• 1999: Inside Out - lead singer, 6-piece R&B band.
• 2000 - 2006: Sequoia - trio, all moods/Redwood - duo, all.
• 2004 - 2009: Abbaloo - Abba Tribute Band - Freida - current.
• 2008 - 2009: Optimistic Voices - Female trio with jazz twist - current.
• 2009: Funky Beatz - 70s disco band - current.
Alan's broadcasting career began in radio at the age of 17. He's a former head of news and current affairs at Clare FM and former editor-in-chief at Irish News Network.
Alan has been with TV Three since the station launched in September 1998. Since then he has been the anchor of the main news programmes on the channel.
Ian has been a news presenter on RTÉ's Irish language news programmes since the early-2000s.
Presenter, BBC Bristol's 'Points West', 1983 - 1985 then moved to London as a news reader on 'London Plus' in 1985. She became a London regional and national news reader on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time', 1985 - 1986. BBC TV news reader on 'News Afternoon' and 'News View' from March 1986 until December 1986.
She left for ITN in June 1987 and stayed until June 1992. After this she was a relief presenter on ITV's 'The Time, The Place' in 1993. She was a news reader on BBC World in 1992 and since 1994 has been heard voicing 'Transworld Sports' on Channel 4.
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Jeremy was a presenter on BBC 'Points West' in the early-1970s.
Niall started off in radio and has worked for a number of stations in Tipperary, Waterford and Dublin. He joined RTÉ as an announcer on RTÉ Radio One.
He has presented a number of programmes on RTÉ Radio One and FM 3 (RTÉ Lyric FM's predecessor). He joined RTÉ Lyric FM at its launch in May 1999 and is still with the station.
Niall provides relief cover for RTÉ News, presenting programmes on radio and television.
Mark joined the BBC in 1989 and has presented many news and current affairs programmes on both radio and television during his time with the Corporation. He has been a regular face on the main local television news programme since the early-1990s.
He presents the weekday drivetime programme on BBC Radio Ulster - 'Evening Extra' - as well as occasional studio-based editions of the television current affairs programme, 'Spotlight'. He also chairs a local political 'Question Time' style programme, 'Let's Talk'.
Sports presenter and reporter on STV's 'Scotland Today'.
Co-anchor of 'Thames At Six' and then 'Thames News' from 1978 until the early-1980s with Andrew Gardner. She also reported for Thames from 1983 until 1986 and also fronted news bulletins. Since leaving Thames, Rita has become a well known writer on the workings of the human brain, and has twice won the Medical Journalists' Association prize for contributions to medical journalism. She also co-wrote the book 'Mapping The Mind' with scientist Christopher Frith, and is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and New Scientist.
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Jilly's first TV presenting job was with TSW in the 1980s, where she was a news reader. By the late-1980s, she was presenting national BBC TV news bulletins. She subsequently moved to ITN, where she presented bulletins for ITV and the 'Channel Four Daily'.
Jilly currently runs a media skills company (link below).
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Reporter and co-anchor on Channel TV's main evening news magazine programme, 'Channel Report'.Jayne has been a news presenter with BBC Wales since the mid-1980s. Although she now presents bulletins mostly, Jayne still occasionally presents the main weekday editions of 'Wales Today'.
David Cass joined BBC TV 'Look East' in February 1973 and during his time there was a general news reporter and weekend news reader. While there, he opened the 'West of the region' operation, based in Huntingdon, in 1975.
David moved to national BBC TV news in 1977 as a freelance general reporter before specialising in sport and then joining the full-time staff in 1978 until 1984.
He then joined ITN. During his time there he was the launch presenter of ITN's night-time service 'Into The Night' (from 1988), and Washington presenter/correspondent of 'Channel 4 Daily' from 1990 until 1992.
From 1993 until 1998 he was a regular presenter for BBC World Television. He also developed the 'Newshour Asia And Pacific' strand.
In more recent years, David has worked as a TV presenter and consultant in the Middle East.
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Anne's broadcasting career began in 1982 as a researcher and reporter, and later news presenter, on pirate station Radio Nova. She joined RTÉ as a continuity announcer in 1987 and became a newsreader and reporter in 1990. She has been the presenter of 'Capital D', an RTÉ magazine series for Dublin residents, since 2005. She also presents the monthly 'Crimecall' programme.Clare completed a post-graduate journalism course and subsequently worked as a reporter at BBC local radio stations in Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds and Wales. She later worked as a producer and presenter. In 1998, she moved to the South West and worked as a news reader and producer for BBC Radio Devon.
In the early-2000s, she joined 'Spotlight' as a reporter. She now also presents on the programme's breakfast, lunchtime and late editions as well as working behind-the-scenes as a producer.
Andrew is a former Sky Sports presenter. He currently presents on GMTV.
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Andrea's broadcasting career began in 1985 at the age of 16 when she joined BBC Northern Ireland as a presenter on a youth current affairs programme.
Andrea joined Ulster Television in 1990 where she spent three years as a news and features reporter. In 1993, she moved to NBC Asia (NBC's business news network for the Asia Pacific region) in Hong Kong as a news reporter. Subsequently she became one of their main news presenters, anchoring coverage of special events including the handover of Hong Kong to China
She joined ITN in April 1998 as a relief newscaster and senior reporter. Later she was the company's medical correspondent in 1999 and then international correspondent for ITV News.
During 2000 she anchored the main evening news programme on Channel 5.
She rejoined the ITV newsroom in January 2001. She remains a regular news presenter on ITV news programmes.
Nia was an S4C in-vision continuity announcer in the mid-1980s. She also presented 'Newyddion'.
She now works as an independent television producer and director.
Rory was a reporter and occasional news presenter with BBC Wales in the 1980s. He then moved to the BBC in London where he became a reporter and correspondent on the national news programmes.TSW reporter and presenter who joined the company at the start in 1982 from a behind-the-scenes journalistic job at Southern Television which had lost its franchise.Sally started out in journalism in 1986. She trained as a journalist on the Weston Mercury - a weekly paper in Weston-Super-Mare. She later moved to an evening paper and then on to BBC local radio in Gloucestershire.
Next stop was BBC Bristol where she became a presenter on the regional news programme 'Points West'.
1990s 'Anglia News' anchor, who moved to Ireland after re-marrying.Barry was a presenter on BBC 'Look North' from 1963 until 1973.
Sue started out on radio back in 1991. She worked as a music reporter for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. She also spent time at BBC Radio Wales as a journalist and was a presenter with Radio Maldwyn, Radio Wyvern and Sunshine Radio.
In 1998, Sue moved to television, presenting bulletins for BBC 'Wales Today'.
Anchor of 'LWT News' in the late-1980s. Lindsay went on to work for London News Network as a news reader, correspondent and relief presenter (1993 to 1995 and 1998/1999) before becoming managing director of London Weekend Television. He had since moved on and is now managing director at Meridian Broadcasting.Reporter, newscaster and presenter for Southern Television (1977 - 1981) and its successor, TVS.
(Sir). Former athlete who represented Great Britain in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. He became ITN's first newscaster on 22 September 1955 and stayed until May 1956.
Chataway left to join the reporting team on BBC TV's 'Panorama' until 1959. He was a narrator on BBC Two's 'Horizon' from 1966 to 1968.
He left broadcasting for politics and was a Conservative MP from 1959 until 1966 and 1969 until 1974. He served as a Government Minister from 1970 until 1974. Left for business management, and was knighted in 1995.
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Gillian was one of the original presenters of 'Nuacht TG 4'.
Sally has been a reporter/presenter with BBC 'Look East' since c. 1986.
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Scott was a presenter on Sky News in the 1990s. He later presented the Channel 5 breakfast programme '5 News Early' from 1997.
In 2005, Scott presented the early-morning weekday segment on the ITV News Channel.
Eibhlín is one of the presenters of 'Nuacht TG 4'.Anglia TV reporter and bulletin news reader.Pádhraic was a 'Nuacht' newsreader from the late-1970s until the late-1990s. He's now deputy chief executive of TG 4.Sarah is a presenter with Channel Television.
Steve's first broadcasting gig was as a presenter on The Children's Channel. His desire to enter journalism took him to cable TV and a role as a news presenter. Presenting jobs at Chelsea and Manchester United football club TV channels followed.
His big break came when he got a position as a presenter on Sky News and Sky Sports News.
In January 2002, he became a sports presenter on BBC 'Midlands Today'. By 2004, he had moved to present the news on 'Central News' (East).
Paul's broadcasting career began with RTÉ where he was among the first batch of DJs on the newly launched Radio 2 - RTÉ's answer to BBC Radio 1, He was on the early shift with 'Paul Clark's Morning Show'.
C. 1984, Paul moved north to take up a news presenting role with BBC Northern Ireland. He became a familar face on the regional news programme, 'Inside Ulster'. Paul was also a regular presenter on Children In Need night. Indeed, Paul continued to show up on CIN after his departure to UTV in 1989.
Throughout his time with UTV, Paul has been one of the main presenters on the main news programme, UTV Live (and formerly 'Six Tonight').
Nick's journalistic life started in the newspaper industry, first with the Sydney Daily Mirror and then back in the UK with the Sunday Telegraph. He continues to write articles for various publications today.
Nick's TV work includes spells as a presenter on London News Network's 'London Tonight' in 1994 and 1995 and a sports presenter and relief main presenter in 1995 to 1996. He presented with the programme again between c. 2002 and 2004.
He has also presented many factual series for various TV channels, including an hour long documentary on global warming for the Discovery Channel and the ratings winning 'Sea To Source', following his journey up the River Thames. He has also covered rugby and football world cups with ITV.
Peter Clark was a hard news reporter for both Southern Television and its successor, TVS. He was also a regular news reader and made several award winning documentaries for the stations. He was also the creator, compiler and presenter of 'Complaints Box', Britain's first television consumer programme.
Originally with Southern TV's regional news programme 'Day By Day' in 1981, Steve Clarke went on to become a reporter, news reader and presenter for the BBC's 'London Plus', 1986 - 1988. In 1988, he transferred to Thames originally co-presenting 'The City Programme' and later 'Thames News'.
Steve stayed with Thames until the end in December 1992. Steve is currently head of internal media at international news agency Reuters.
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Now managing editor at BBC Radio Norfolk, David Clayton was an Anglia Television continuity announcer throughout 1982 and later became a well known face and voice in the East of England as a regular presenter on BBC TV East and on BBC Radio Norfolk.
David told TTVRP how he broke into television announcing: "Basically I was dabbling in local radio. I applied to be a continuity announcer at Anglia TV in Norwich. I failed twice - on the third attempt they didn't take me but the station's deputy head of presentation, Ray Castle, knew me from when he had attended dances at a local ballroom where I had been the DJ. He liked my disco music - he liked me! I was offered me some freelance shifts at Anglia and I worked there throughout 1982 quite regularly. He trusted me enough to give me an on-air audition which was in January 1982. I remember that during my first live link the programme failed to appear down the line from TVS so my first link was to a stand-by film. Helen McDermott stayed with me to hold my hand and we've been friends ever since.
"I later became a stand-in all over the place on BBC TV East in 1983, including from October 1983 taking over as the main 'Breakfast Time' regional presenter and also doing some daytime shifts as well. I moved into more 'Look East' newsreading and presenting and did some reporting and presenting on the Friday opt-out called Weekend and then 'East on Two', a regional weekly magazine programme. I also did many 'Children In Need' programmes. I stopped as a regular in 1987 to take up a contract with BBC Radio 4, then came back to be deputy editor at BBC Radio Norfolk in 1991."
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Reporter and presenter for Channel TV. Former main anchor of 'Channel Report' until summer 2002.Presenter/reporter for Southern's news magazines 'Scene South East' and 'Scene Midweek' who moved to TVS as a general presenter and journalist. Her work for the company included the excellent series of 'Country Ways' documentaries, 'A Full Life' and 'Afternoon Club'. Jill went on to write and present 'Country Ways' for Meridian Broadcasting.Don began as a Radio Éireann announcer in 1958. He became a TV news presenter in 1972 and retired in 1992.Peter is a former Sky News and BBC News 24 presenter.
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Stephen was a presenter with Sky News and CNN for 12 years. From 2000 until 2005, he presented the news on BBC World and occasionally on BBC News 24. He also presented the BBC's technology programme 'Click Online' from 2000 until 2005. In December 2005, Stephen announced that he would be joining Al-Jazeera International.
Michael's broadcast career started in 1986 at BBC WM where he was the early morning news reader. National radio was next, presenting 'You And Yours' on BBC Radio 4 as well as reporting for BFBS Forces Radio and the BBC World Service.
He was also a regular reporter on 'Countryfile' (BBC) from 1989 until 1998. He also presented 'Top Gear' (BBC) and canoeing series 'Paddles Up' (BBC).
In regional television, Michael hosted 'The Midlands At Westminster' (BBC) from 1993 to 1994, and was an anchor at Channel One news in London, from 1994 to 1995.
Michael has been a presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' since 1995, and presenter of 'The Politics Show' (BBC) from Birmingham since 2006. He has also been heard many times as a news reader on BBC Radio 2.
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Neil was a presenter on 'Westcountry Live' in the 1990s.
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Colm was an RTÉ TV and radio news reader during the 1970s and 1980s. He later went on to become the station's arts and media correspondent.
Colm retired from RTÉ in 2004.
In the late-1960s/early-1970s, and prior to joining RTÉ, Colm worked at BBC Plymouth, where he presented the 'Midday Parade' radio programme.
Stephanie is a presenter with Channel Television.HTV West's long serving news reporter, and industrial and political correspondent. He also regularly presents news bulletins.
Sue's broadcasting career began in 1974 in radio. She joined Capital Radio where she was a presenter and producer.
Headhunted by the BBC, Sue subsequently presented many programmes across the BBC radio networks, most notably 'You And Yours' which she presented for nearly five years. She also deputised for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2.
Sue's first TV role came in 1976 when she joined the 'Nationwide' team. She remained with the programme until 1982. She also presented the local South East news programme 'South East At 6',
From 1982 until 1995, she co-hosted the annual 'Children In Need' TV appeal alongside Terry Wogan. In 1983, with the arrival of breakfast TV, Sue became a regular face on 'Breakfast Time'. With Nick Ross, she co-presented 'Crimewatch UK' from its launch in 1984 until 1996.
Since the mid-1990s she has presented 'Making History' on BBC Radio 4. In March 2006, she published her first novel 'On Dangerous Ground'.
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One of Granada's sports team, who presents 'Soccer Sunday' as well as reporting for 'Granada Reports'. James also occasionally co-anchors 'Granada Reports'.Westward Television reporter and presenter who always brought a touch of humour to the stories he covered. He reported and presented for the 'Diary' in the 1960s and 1970s.Angela is a presenter on Sky News.
Previous broadcasting jobs include: reporter, ITV News; news reader, GMTV.
Former BBC Northern Ireland reporter/news presenter who moved to London to report for the children's programme 'Newsround' on the national network.
BBC East Midlands reporter, 1977 - 1980; BBC TV News home reporter, 1980 - 1983; BBC TV national news reader from July 1982 until October 1986. She presented BBC Radio 4's 'PM', 1987 - TBC.
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Barry Cowan was one of the leading faces of BBC NI news and current affairs during the worst of the 'Troubles' in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974, he became the main anchor on the regional news programme, 'Scene Around Six'.
Barry was the original presenter of BBC Radio Ulster's 'TalkBack' programme when it launched on September 08 1986. A few months after the programme went on air, Barry wrote about his experiences on the programme in BBC NI's 'In Focus' magazine:
"Until then journalism had always been about serious things - the Anglo-Irish Agreement, strikes and civil disorder, politics and parsons. All that was to change as 'Talkback' launched me into the alternative world of loopies, loonies and lost causes more at home in the 'Sun', the 'Mirror' or the 'Star' than the 'Times', the 'Telegraph' and the 'Guardian'. The serious stuff is still there but it's the tabloid tattle that sticks in the mind."
Among other BBC Radio Ulster programmes that Barry presented are 'Good Morning Ulster', 'Evening Extra' and 'Seven Days'.
In the early-1980s, Barry went down south briefly and joined RTÉ as a presenter on the station's TV current affairs flagship, 'Today Tonight'. He later returned to BBC Northern Ireland where he continued to play a major part in current affairs output.
Barry died in hospital on June 17 2004 after a long illness. He was 56.
Speaking after the announcement of Barry's death, BBC NI controller, Anna Carragher, said: "I am deeply saddened to hear of Barry's death. He was one of the great broadcasters in Northern Ireland over the last three decades and combined huge knowledge of Irish and Northern Irish life in politics with a penetrating intellect and a quick wit. I have known Barry since we were both students at Queen's in the late 60s where he was one of a generation of wonderful broadcasters including Nick Ross, Seamus McKee and Sean Rafferty. He will be much missed."
Former head of news and current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland, Keith Baker, said: "When I joined the BBC in the 1980s Barry Cowan was already a legend. He lived for live broadcasting, that arena of the unpredictable. He was a superb interviewer always dogged and determined and always with the interest of the viewers and listeners at heart. We are all better informed about Northern Ireland through Barry's work over the years."
Tyne Tees TV news reporter and presenter who moved south to present the news for Central News South in the Midlands.
1960s continuity announcer and presenter of 'North East Roundabout', the first TTTV local news magazine. He also presented a more in-depth news programme for Tyne Tees - 'Spotlight' - which probed controversial issues of the day.
He left the company in 1964 to become the main anchor for the BBC regional news programme in the Midlands; he remained as a presenter there until 1980.
Tom later became a director of a Midlands based corporate video company.
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Central TV news reader in the East Midlands who took over from Nick Owen when he left for TV-am in 1983. After a period presenting on national BBC daytime television, Andy moved to Meridian Broadcasting in 1993 to front the company's Thames Valley edition of 'Meridian Tonight'.
Andy started his broadcasting career with Metro Radio in Newcastle before moving to Tyne Tees Television in 1978 as a continuity announcer. He later joined the 'Northern Life' reporting and presenting team, before moving to Central.
One of HTV West's best known presenters and reporters, Bob eventually became executive editor of HTV News and then 'ITV West News'. He joined the company from Westward Television at the start of the 1980s, and comes from a 'television family' - his father, Peter Crampton, was a well known face on BBC TV South West in Plymouth.
(OBE). John joined the BBC in Newcastle working in local radio and television
and later moved to BBC Bristol where he presented a children's magazine series, 'Search' from 1971 until 1972.
In April 1972 he began his 17 year association with the children's news programme that bore his name - 'John Craven's Newsround'. From 1986 - 1989 he was also the programme's editor and made regular appearances on the news desk on Saturday mornings on 'Multi-Coloured Swap Shop' and 'Saturday Superstore'.
John left 'Newsround' in 1989 to present the countryside news programme 'Countryfile'. He was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to rural and children's broadcasting.
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HTV West continuity announcer who stayed as a voice-only announcer and news reader after 1994. He disappeared from westcounty screens when the station was absorbed by United News and Media in the mid-1990s. A familiar face from daytime television adverts for various financial services/pensions companies, and, more recently, for Claims Direct.
In-vision continuity announcer for Thames Television in London, often on the overnight shift, and also for HTV West in Bristol. 
BBC Radio 4/BBC Radio 2 announcer 1980 - 1982 and in 1987. 'Breakfast Time' presenter on BBC Bristol's 'Points West', 1983 - 1988. Moved to London as BBC TV news reader on 'News Afternoon' and 'News View' in August/September 1983 and from March until May 1988.
She was an original member of the Sky News presenting team from February 1989.
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TV Three news presenter.
Richard started out as an RTÉ Radio 2 newsreader in the early-1980s and went on to present 'Morning Ireland' on RTÉ Radio 1. In the mid-1980s, Richard was a news presenter on RTÉ TV. By the late-1980s he had moved to RTÉ Radio, presenting on news and current affairs programmes.
For a period in the mid-2000s, Richard returned to RTÉ TV screens as a foreign correspondent, reporting on events such as the Lebanon/Israel crisis.
Martine's broadcasting career began at BBC Radio Leicester in 1991. She worked behind-the-scenes initially but soon took on a presenting/reporting role.
Regional television news was next - first with 'East Midlands Today' and later 'Newsroom South East' in 1997.
In 2000, she switched to national TV, presenting 'UK Today' initially and then overnight shifts presenting on BBC News 24, which were simulcast on BBC World and BBC One.
Reporter and presenter for STV's 'Scotland Today' in the 1980s.Zoe studied French and Portuguese at Oxford University. She joined 'Central News' (South) as a trainee journalist and later graduated to a news/sport journalist/presenter position. In January 2002, she joined Sky Sports News and became the regular presenter of 'Good Morning Sports Fans'.(Later Audra Thomas). Audra joined UTV c. 1997 as a continuity announcer/news reader. She also occasionally presents the weather on the main evening news programme.
Audra was absent from UTV screens from early-2007 to November 2008.
Rob joined BBC 'London Plus' in 1988. He was a presenter and reporter with the programme, later concentrating on sport. He remained with the BBC South East news programme until the early-2000s.
By c. 2001, Rob was freelancing and appeared as a presenter on many outlets, such as the ITV News Channel, Sky and BBC 'Midlands Today'.
He currently presents with Sky Sport.
Other TV projects: 'Notice Board' (mid-1980s, BBC); Turnabout (quiz show, early-1990s, BBC).
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Tim is currently the main anchor of the West edition of 'Anglia News'. He joined the company in 1992 as a newroom journalist, before heading out to man the station's Northampton news centre. He has also worked on several other Anglia programmes, including 'Anglia News Extra' and 'Crime Night'.
Tim grew up in Cambridgeshire and began his journalistic career as a trainee reporter on the Cambridge Evening News. He worked as deputy news editor at the Wellingborough Evening Telegraph, returning to Cambridge as Head Of News for a local radio station.
Long serving TSW reporter and presenter.Karen's broadcast career began at Broadland 102, where she was a reporter and news reader. She joined Anglia TV in September 2001 where she works as a presenter, reporter and production journalist on 'Anglia News' in the East of the region.Brian has a BA degree in English and economics from University College, Galway. He started his career as a researcher at RTÉ in Athlone before heading on to the Midlands-based local radio station Radio Three as a reporter. He later moved to LM/FM radio in the North East of Ireland, where he was a news editor.
In 1998, Brian crossed into television, joining TV Three at its launch. He worked there as a news producer and senior reporter initially. In September 1999, he became a news presenter on the channel's new breakfast programme, 'Ireland AM'.
Brian then moved across to Sky News where he was Ireland correspondent. In June 2006, he was appointed as one of the main presenters on the Sky News Ireland service.
Former local newspaper reporter who became a news reader for BBC Plymouth's 'Spotlight', 1987 - 1988. She was soon snapped up by national bosses who realised her great potential and in April 1988 she was asked to read the news summaries within BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time'. Later, she presented the main programme from 1989 to 1994. She was a BBC TV news reader from February 1989 to February 1999, mostly on the 'Six O'Clock News' and 'News View'.
She also presented 'Holiday', 1993 - 1998 and 'Crimewatch UK'. She was tragically killed on 26 April 1999, and is mourned by many thousands of viewers who loved her charming and easy style of presenting.
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Rachel's broadcast career began in 1999, reading breakfast bulletins at Centre FM (Tamworth). Three months later she moved to BBC Radio Northampton where she was a reporter.
She then moved to BBC 'Look East' as a video journalist in Milton Keynes.
Rachel is currently a breakfast presenter and reporter for BBC 'Look East'.
Reporter on Thames TV's 'Reporting London', 1986 - 1988. She joined BBC TV as news reader on weekend news and 'News View' from September 1988 until December 1989. In her first few weeks reading the news, her hand was bandaged in a sling after a horse riding accident.
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Main presenter of 'Coast To Coast' (South edition) with Fred Dinenage from the late-1980s until the end of 1992. She moved to Meridian to front the Thames Valley edition of 'Meridian Tonight'. Mai, who started out on HTV Wales, has returned to the company to present the political series 'The Sharp End', and is also one of the mainstays of the 'Wales This Week' team.Before moving to national fame with GMTV in the 1990s, Ann Davis could be found manning the newsdesk at 'Central News' in the East Midlands.
Anne has returned to the Midlands where she can now be found co-hosting the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'.
David joined the BBC in 1971. He was political correspondent in 1983 and in 1986, he became education correspondent.
David was a reporter/presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' from 1988 until 1994. He was also a sports presenter and reporter for national BBC News programmes.
He left broadcasting in 1994 to become the spokesman for the Football Association. David is now the chief executive of the Football Association.
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Caroline has been a presenter with BBC Radio Cleveland since 2001. She is also a reporter and presenter on BBC North's 'Look North'.Long serving anchor for 'Central News' (South), who joined the station after a TV reporting/presenting career which included BBC TV South and TVS. During her time with Central and its successor Carlton, Anne has presented 'Central Post', regularly reported on 'Heart Of The Country' and presented 'Lifeline', broadcast to the whole Carlton Central region. Anne and her on-screen partner, Wes Smith, became the longest running anchor duo of any ITV region. She recently left the station to train as a teacher.Liz began her broadcast career as a volunteer assistant at BBC Radio Suffolk. She has also worked at Trent FM, Ram FM, BBC East Midlands, Vibe FM and SGR-FM.
Liz is currently a presenter and reporter for 'Anglia News West'.
(Sir). Former barrister famous for his political interviewing, including nine election nights from 1964 until 1992. After a period as a BBC radio producer, he joined ITN in 1955 at its launch as a newscaster and parliamentary correspondent from 23 September 1955. He also presented 'Roving Report' in 1957.
He left ITN in 1959 to join the reporting team on BBC TV's 'Panorama' and later presented the programme from 1967 to 1972.
He presented BBC TV's 'Newsday' from 1974 until 1976, 'Tonight' from 1978 until 1979, and BBC Radio 4's 'The World At One' from 1979 until 1987. He chaired BBC TV's political discussion programme 'Question Time' from 1979 until 1989 and presented Channel 4's 'The Parliament Programme' in 1992. He was knighted in 1981 and died on 6 August 2000.
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Denise worked as an announcer for Ulster Television in 1962 and 1963, having previously worked at the Belfast Telegraph and for newspapers in her native New Zealand. She returned to her native country and worked for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
Denise died in 2005, aged 63.
Presented the South East edition of 'Coast To Coast' until the end of 1992, but moved over to Meridian for a couple of years before retiring from television. Once broke down in tears live on air when dealing with a particularly harrowing news story, generating several national newspaper stories.
Chris was a BBC 'Look East' presenter from 1976 until 1978. He joined the BBC in Plymouth in 1979 to present 'Spotlight'.
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Martine started in broadcasting as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN in January 1982. She did parliamentary reporting and made some radio documentaries.
She then went to the UN in New York. From 1985 until 1987, she was the BBC’s correspondent covering the Iran/Iraq war. Back to London and Martine was a producer then presenter of 'Focus On Africa' for the BBC World Service.
In 1989, Martine moved to Sky News where she was an overnight news presenter. In 1991, headed off to South Africa where she freelanced for the BBC World Service. She later presented and reported for MNet’s weekly 'Carte Blanche' programme.
She returned to the UK in 1995 and worked briefly as a correspondent for BBC One’s 'Here And Now'. Later that year, Martine became a news presenter on BBC World where she remains today.
Katie's journalistic career started in 1995 with the BBC as a researcher on BBC Radio 4's 'Moneybox'. She later presented on BBC Radio 5 Live's 'Moneycheck' and edited BBC Radio 4's 'Financial World Tonight' programme.
She made the move to TV in 1996 becoming BBC News consumer affairs correspondent and later a reporter on 'Film '96' and 'Film 97'.
Katie moved to ITN in January 1998, where she presented weekend ITV bulletins initially. She was voted New TV Talent of the Year in March 1999 at the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards.
Since the early-2000s, Katie has been a regular presenter on many of the main ITV news programmes. She currently co-anchors the 'Lunchtime News' with Nicholas Owen as well co-presenting on 'London Tonight', alongside Alastair Stewart mainly.
Maura joined RTÉ in Galway in the mid-1990s as a news researcher and later reporter. A fluent Irish speaker, she later spent two years with T na G (now TG 4) as a reporter.
She joined TV Three in 1998, where she has worked as reporter and crime correspondent. Maura is now a presenter on TV Three's news and entertainment breakfast programme 'Ireland AM'.
ATV reporter and news reader who moved across to Central in 1982 to co-host with Nick Owen the East Midlands edition of Central News . It was a double act that was to stand both of them in good stead when they were later re-united on the TV-am sofa as the main presenters of 'Good Morning Britain' in late-1983. Before joining the breakfast station, Anne briefly became a national news reader for BBC Television's 'News Afternoon' in May 1983. She was a guest presenter on LWT's 'Six O'Clock Live' in 1990 and 1991.
Anne teamed up with Nick Owen again to host ITV's 'This Morning', standing in for Richard and Judy and then landed a similar programme 'Good Morning With Anne And Nick' which ran on BBC One from 1992 until 1996.
Anne's other national jobs included TV Weekly for TVS and a relief presenter on ITV's 'The Time The Place' in 1993.
Married Mike Hollingsworth, her former boss at ATV and Central, and later colleague at TV-am, but the couple later separated in a well publicised split.
Anne worked at London's LBC radio where she co-hosted the breakfast show with Tommy Boyd. She is also well known for her work publicising cot death syndrome.
In 2002, Anne appeared on Channel 4's 'Celebrity Big Brother' as one of the housemates. She seemed to take the challenge in good spirit. She was evicted after being put up for nomination with comedienne Sue Perkins, but lost by only a tiny margin.
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Peter was possibly the youngest ever continuity announcer at the age of 17. He joined BBC Northern Ireland while still at school. He subsequently obtained a degree from Queen's University, Belfast.
During his initial four years with the BBC, from 1975 to 1978, he was a news reader on 'Scene Around Six' with Barry Cowan and Sean Rafferty; he also covered other TV news broadcasts including the news at closedown on BBC One Northern Ireland.
On leaving university, Peter joined BBC NI on contract under Mike Baguley in the Presentation Department. He presented programmes and read the news as well as performing continuity duties for BBC Radio Ulster. He then moved to BBC TV presentation, working with what he describes as "two Ulster broadcasting legends", David Gamble and Mike Nunan. He later became a reporter on 'Good Morning Ulster' on BBC Radio Ulster before transferring to BBC Radio 2 in 1982 to take up a contract position as an announcer in the Presentation Department under Iain Purdon.
Over the years, Peter has presented various music and entertainment shows for BBC Radio, including: 'Peter Dickson's Nightcap' on BBC Radio 2, deputising for Gloria Hunniford on her BBC Radio 2 show and 'Newsbeat' on BBC Radio 1.
He was one of the main voice on programme promotions on BBC One for six years (1983 - 1989). He has also voiced programme promotions for many other TV networks, including: ITV; Channel 4; Five; The History Channel; Performance TV; The Biography Channel; Nickleodeon; National Geographic; UK Play; Challenge TV; Sky One; Disney Channel; TNT Classic Movies; BBC World; UKTV Gold; UK Horizons; Meridian; Sky Movies.
Peter's voice-over talent has seen him involved with many high profile TV shows, including: 'Bruce's Price Is Right' (ITV); 'Family Fortunes' (ITV); 'Late Night With Jerry Springer' (ITV/Five); 'It's Not The Answer' (ITV); 'Gameshow Marathon' (ITV); 'Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway' (ITV); 'The X Factor' (ITV); 'The Paul O'Grady Show' (ITV); 'Today With Des And Mel' (ITV); 'Test The Nation' (BBC); 'Record Of The Year' (ITV).
He also narrates documentaries, including many of the highest rating productions from the Discovery Channel, including: 'FBI Files'.
Peter has also written for various television productions, including: 'The Fast Show' (BBC); 'Play Your Cards Right' (ITV); 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' (BBC).
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Veteran South of England broadcast legend with plenty of exposure to the national ITV network. Fred started out as a sports reporter and presenter on Southern, and filled the same role on TVS until he replaced Khalid Aziz as the main anchor on the South edition of 'Coast To Coast'. He was retained by Meridian, and still presents 'Meridian Tonight' to this day.
During his time with the three stations, Fred has presented several networked programmes, including wrestling for ITV Sport, 'Gambit' (Anglia), 'How' (Southern/TVS) and 'Vintage Quiz' (TVS). He also used to stand in for Dickie Davies on 'World Of Sport'.
Fred has also written a book about the Kray twins - they approached him to author it after watching him on the box and deciding that they liked the cut of his gib. Fred presented the final programme on TVS, 'Goodbye To All That' and has fronted several specials for successors, Meridian.
Nick can be found fronting many of the daytime 'Scotland Today' bulletins.Steve has a BA (Hons) in broadcast journalism from Nottingham Trent University. Whilst at university he worked as a presenter and journalist at various local radio stations, including Trent FM, Gem AM and RAM FM.
In 1996, Steve joined ITN, where he produced the 'ITN World News' and 'ITN Morning News'; he also presented on the 'ITN World News' for NBC Superchannel. In 1997 he joined Channel 5 News where he was a presenter, reporter and programme editor.
In 2000, Steve moved to Sky were he is now one of the main anchors in the daytime schedule. Since 2005, he has also become involved with 'Five News' (produced by Sky News).
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Bryan Dobson was born in Clontarf, County Dublin in 1960. Bryan's broadcasting career began in the pirate radio stations of Dublin before moving to Belfast to work with BBC Northern Ireland, where he presented 'Good Morning Ulster' on BBC Radio Ulster.
On his return to Dublin (c. 1987), Bryan took up a reporting job with RTÉ. He later became business correspondent and by Autumn 1990, he was fronting the station's 'One O'Clock News' programme. By 1992 he was anchoring the 'Nine O’Clock News'. He is currently the presenter of RTÉ's 'Six-One News' - a position he has held since the late-1990s.
Bryan is also usally heavily involved in special event broadcasts such as RTÉ's coverage of General Elections.
Sarah has been a continuity announcer and news reader with UTV since 2007. She was previously a presenter on the Q Radio Network, and read the news on UTV's radio station, U105.(Later Pamela Thomson). Pamela joined Granada as an on-screen announcer and newsreader in 1989. She went freelance in 1992 and worked in local TV and radio news (including back at Granada) as Pam Thomson, fitting her career around her family. Pam has a BA from Durham University (German) and a post-grad diploma in Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire.
Music is a big interest; she sings in a vocal group (Main Street) and plays and teaches piano.
Ulster Television announcer/news reader in 1983/1984.Niall joined UTV in September 1994 as a news reporter. In the early-2000s, Niall was a regular presenter of news bulletins at the station.BBC Radio Light Programme/Home Service/Radio 4 announcer 1947 until 1982. BBC TV news reader, July 1954 until December 1956.
Presenter, BBC Midlands 1959 - 1960. BBC Radio Home Service announcer, 1961 - 1963. BBC Two relief news reader on 'Newsroom', 'News Extra' from May 1972 until June 1976 and also in April/May 1979. Also appeared on 'Newsnight'. Most recently, Peter was a news reader on BBC World, in 1992.
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Jim's first job was in the Civil Service in London. However, he desperately wanted to get into journalism. After one failed attempt, Jim was given a reporter position with the BBC in Belfast. He later moved to a similar role at Ulster Television.
In 1974, Jim was poached by RTÉ and became the station's northern editor. He remained in that job until 1991 when he moved back to the BBC in Belfast taking up the political editor post, replacing Denis Murray who became the BBC's national Ireland correspondent.
In 1996 he switched to a presenting role, fronting the relaunched BBC regional news programme, 'Newsline 6.30'. However, with the show pulling in only half the number of viewers of its UTV rival, Jim quit after just two months, and returned to a political reporting role.
In September 1997, he announced his resignation from the BBC. He was moving away from broadcasting to become head of representation at the EU office in Belfast. In April 2001, Jim was promoted to a top job based in England, becoming head of the European Union in the UK.
In 2004, Jim resigned from his EU post.
(MBE). After leaving school Robert Dougall had worked briefly in the City, before joining the BBC. He made his first broadcast on the old Empire Service when he was 21.
On the day the Second World War was declared, and speaking as an anonymous Englishman, he broadcast a last-minute appeal to the German people to stop the invasion of Poland. He was a reporter in the early years of the war before joining the Royal Navy, and was based in Northern Russia as an interpreter for 18 months.
He returned to the BBC as an announcer for the Overseas Service, Light Programme and Home Service (1934 - 1942 and 1948 - 1959) and became one of radio's specialist news readers.
In July 1954, he moved to BBC TV News and was one of the Corporation's main news readers until 31 December 1973. In his autobiography, he said that, for lonely people especially, the news reader appearing night after night over the years becomes almost a trusted friend.
On retirement from the BBC he began a new career as a writer. As well as his autobiography, he wrote half a dozen other books - some of them about birds, one of his great interests. He was president of the RSPB for five years.
He later presented the Channel 4 magazine series for the over sixties - 'Years Ahead', 1982 - 1989.
Robert Dougall died on 18 December 1999, aged 86.
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Donald worked as a reporter/presenter on Southern TV's 'Scene South East. Like Clive Gunnell on neighbouring Westward Television, Donald Dougal was best known for hiking around various beautyspots in the region.
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Alan worked on local newspapers in Scotland and England before joining BBC local radio in Carlisle in 1974 and Humberside in 1977. He returned to Scotland in 1978 to join BBC Scotland's evening news programme 'Reporting Scotland' which he then went on to present for seventeen years, latterly, along with his wife, Viv Lumsden.
Alan also co-presented the BAFTA-winning 'Home Show' for Scottish Television.
He now runs his own media consultancy, The Broadcasting Business, providing communications skills training for a wide range of clients around the UK and Western Europe.
Alan is a keen motorist, holding a car, motorbike, lorry and bus driving licence. He is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and the Guild of Motoring Writers and was the Guild's Regional Journalist of the Year in 1999. He is motoring correspondent for Scottish Field magazine, writes for motoring publications and websites and regularly contributes on transport issues for radio and television.
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Anne joined RTÉ in 1979. Over the years, Anne has anchored at some point on the lunchtime, evening and late-evening RTÉ One news programmes. She is currently one of the main presenters of the 'RTÉ News: Nine o'Clock'.Reporter for TWW in Bristol and then Westward TV who moved to TVS as a news presenter and reporter, and then returned to TSW in the mid-1980s. Since then, John has popped up as a reporter and presenter on several ITV stations, including HTV West, Carlton Central South, and Carlton Westcountry. Sadly, John died in 2000.Teresa joined BBC 'Spotlight' as a presenter in 1990. She left the programme in December 2005 to spend more time with her family.Murray is a presenter with Channel Television.News reporter and presenter for Yorkshire Television who became the company's political editor. In March 2002, Geoff became one of the main anchors of 'Calendar' with Christine Talbot.One of a team of journalists/news readers who appeared on 'LWT News' in the late-1980s as the station tried to improve its local news output.Sheila obtained an MA from Edinburgh University in 1967. She was one of the main anchors of STV's 'Scotland Today' from 1972 until 1974, She later worked for Radio Clyde.
Sheila last updated us in August 2008, at which time she was editor of Family History magazine.
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Sean Duignan became one of the regular co-anchors of the relaunched RTÉ TV 'Six-One' news programme in autumn 1990. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a press secretary to the Fianna Fáil/Labour 'Rainbow Coalition' government. He subsequently returned to RTÉ and resumed a news presenting role for a period. He later became the regular presenter of 'The Week in Politics' (c. late-1990s - 2003).Duncanson's first TV airing was as a continuity announcer on ABC Television, the weekend contractor for the North and the Midlands, in the early-1960s. He also regularly announced on Border Television in the 1970s. He went on to become the main anchor of Grampian's 'North Tonight' local evening topicality show through the 1980s and 1990s, although he has now retired from that job.Long serving Westcountry TV news presenter and reporter who often anchored the half hour long lunchtime edition of 'Westcountry Live'. Now presenting on Sky News Alex was a picture editor on programmes such as 'Breakfast News' and 'Newsnight' in the late-1980s. In 1992, following a year's training, Alex became a regional journalist for the BBC. He moved to Norfolk in 1995 and was a reporter for BBC 'Look East'. He also presented BBC East's weekly political programme 'The East At Westminster' for three years.
Alex is currently a senior reporter for BBC 'Look East' and regularly presents the lunchtime and late evening editions of the programme. He is married to 'Look East' presenter Susie Fowler-Watt.
Eileen joined RTÉ as a continuity announcer and newsreader for RTÉ Radio 1 in 1980. She moved to television as a newsreader in 1983. Eileen is currently one of the main anchors of the 9pm news programme on RTÉ One.David began his broadcasting career at Ulster Television in the late-1960s, and was a regular host of evening news programme 'UTV Reports' and current affairs series 'Counterpoint'.
In 1981, he switched channels to BBC Northern Ireland, fronting its political coverage on TV and radio. David has hosted 'TalkBack', Northern Ireland's most popular radio programme, on BBC Radio Ulster since 1988, and was the first presenter of its TV spin-off, 'Let's Talk'.
Brian was a member of the original announcing team at Ulster Television. He had worked previously as a teacher, based in Newry. He was also a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast.
Brian also worked at Yorkshire Television and Scottish Television.
Brian died in April 1999, following a battle with cancer. He was 67.
Chris was brought up in Northern Ireland, Spain and the Wirral in Merseyside. He worked initially in the newspaper industry. He trained as a reporter on local papers and was news editor at the Daily Post in Liverpool. He also freelanced for the Daily Mail.
His first TV jobs included spells as a reporter with Central TV and BBC North. His big national break came with the introduction of BBC News 24 - Chris was one of the first presenters to appear on the station when it launched in 1997.
Chris is still with BBC News 24. During his time at the channel, he has presented in various timeslots. He currently presents on weeknights between 10.30pm and 1am.
ABC TV and Associated Rediffusion continuity announcer who later presented BBC Children's TV's 'Top Of The Form', 1966 - 1967. He was a BBC TV news reader from September 1968 until September 1973, and then again in October 1974 and between September 1979 and June 1981. John also presented the BBC's regional London TV magazine, 'Town And Around' in 1968/1969 and BBC Radio 4's 'You and Yours' in 1972.
1979 - 1985: Head of Drama, University College of Wales. Professor of Drama for the University of Americas, Mexico and University of California, Santa Cruz 1985 - 1997. Returned to England appearing in several theatre productions including his own drama, verse and prose recitals.
TTVRP reader Dave Lawrence remembers John Edmunds from his time as a teacher. He says: "John had another occupation alongside his TV announcing work. He was a part time teacher - English if I remember correctly. He worked at Battersea Grammar School in Streatham, London from the early to mid sixties and I believe he also did a spell of teaching at Henry Thornton's Grammar School in Clapham before that. He was quite popular with the pupils as he was a bit more relaxed than some of the teachers! I left Battersea Grammar in 1966 and I am pretty sure he was still teaching there then."
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Tom Edwards started his career as a newspaper journalist before moving to television as an announcer with Border. He went on to become a familiar announcer on Thames Television in London and on HTV West. Tom is also thought to have been an announcer with Anglia. He also spent several years as a pirate radio disc-jockey.
Tom left Thames at the end of the 1980s to move to the United States but later returned to the UK as a presenter on BBC Radio Norfolk and occasional presenter of the BBC's 'Look East' magazine programme. Most recently, he was the voice-over for BBC TV's 'Wipe Out' daytime quiz show.
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HTV West in-vision continuity announcer in the 1980s who went on to anchor the regional news programme, 'Wales Today', for BBC TV Wales.
Huw Edwards originally worked for BBC Wales and S4C, but then moved to become a reporter for BBC TV's 'Panorama' in 1993. He was BBC TV News relief news reader from June 1994 until September 1996, and chief political correspondent in 1998.
He became a permanent member of the news reading team from May 1999 as then main anchor of BBC One's 'Six O'Clock News'. He then progressed to become the main anchor on the 'Ten O'Clock News' from January 2003,
In April 2006, Huw also presented the new 'Five O'Clock News' on BBC News 24.
Huw was also a relief presenter, 'Breakfast News' in 1995 and BBC Two's 'Newsnight' in 1997.
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Gwenan trained as a print journalist with the NCTJ before moving on to radio and television as a presenter/reporter. She anchored the BBC's 'Newsroom South East' for seven years, leaving to present for BBC News 24 in 2000.
She has worked on a number of consumer programmes for the BBC and ITV, and has presented travel programmes - 'Gate 24' and 'FastTrack'. She has also co-presented several classical music programmes, including 'The Proms' and 'Cardiff Singer Of The World' - both for BBC Two.
After attending a documentary course at the NFTS, she has also produced and directed films for the BBC.
Brenda has had a varied career in journalism and broadcasting.
She has presented her own show on BBC Radio 2 and has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 5 Live. She has been a guest presenter on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' and on Greater London Radio. She has also presented programmes for the BBC World Service and Choice FM.
In print journalism, Brenda has contributed to fashion and lifestyle magazine, Pride as well as Cosmopolitan magazine and she writes a regular column for 'New Nation' newspaper. She was also editor-in-chief on a magazine for International Woman's Month - 'Celebrating Sistas'.
On television, she was one of the main presenters on BBC One's 'The Clothes Show' for five years. She has been involved with many other television programmes, including: 'This Morning' (fashion and entertainment presenter), 'Money Matters' (Granada Breeze); 'Holiday' (BBC); 'Black Britain' (BBC).
She is currently the entertainment correspondent for 'BBC London News'. She also presents the programme occasionally.
John obtained a BA (Hons) in communication, cultural studies and public media from the University of Leeds. He also has a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism, from City University, London and a Masters degree in modern European studies, from London Metropolitan University.
John's broadcasting career began in 1991 with the BBC; he was a news reader and producer with BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey.
In 1992, he made the switch to television, presenting and reporting for Yorkshire TV's early morning (GMTV) and evening news programmes. John returned to radio in 1993, news reading and writing for Classic FM. He went back to the BBC in 1994, presenting and producing for the BBC World Service.
In 1997, he took up a position as a television continuity announcer with BBC TV; his voice was heard on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Choice. From 1999, he switched to the announcer's booths at UK Gold and BBC World TV.
It was back to radio again in 2001; John became an announcer for the BBC World Service (Education Network). In 2004, he switched to presenting: initially for the English programme for China; and then in 2005, he began presenting the live, daily 'BBC Xtra' English programme, heard on BBC Arabic.
John tells us that he is an enthusiastic pro-European...and Finland lover!
Julie first dabbled in broadcasting whilst still at school. She produced interviews and reports for local radio; this continued throughout her time at university.
Julie graduated with a BA Hons Degree in English from Newnham College, Cambridge. Her degree under her belt, she joined the BBC's graduate journalist trainee scheme.
Her first TV job was at BBC Midlands where she presented on the evening edition of 'Midlands Today'. She gained valuable training as a journalist whilst there as well as experience in production, reporting and editing.
National fame came with her arrival on BBC 'Newsround' in 1994. Later, in 1997 she presented two BBC holiday programmes - 'Holidays Out' and 'Holiday '97'.
In the late-1990s, Julie was a reporter on the BBC Knowledge programme, 'Culture Fix'. She was presenting on 'Breakfast News' and BBC News 24 by the early-2000s.
In February 2002, Julie moved to Sky News. In late-2007, it was confirmed that Julie would move to ITV News. The following January, she was co-presenting a relaunched 'News at Ten' with Sir Trevor McDonald.
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Deaf signer for 'HTV News' in the 1980s who became one of the programme's co-presenters until autumn 2001 when she was replaced on the anchor set by Jenny Hull. Over the years, Sherrie has presented many programmes for the company, often specialising in community interest/social action series, such as 'The Good Neighbour Show'. She continues to present and report for HTV West.Tim worked for the BBC in Wales initially, working in local radio. He later made the move to television.
By the 1990s he had moved to Anglia TV where he worked as a reporter primarily; however, Tim also presents weekend bulletins at Anglia on a regular basis.
HTV West news reporter and news presenter.Main anchor of the lunchtime half hour edition of 'Westcountry Live' in the late-1990s.
Tim started off in the newspaper industry in 1967, working on the Bury Free Press in Suffolk. He later worked on Leicester Mercury and the Bermuda Sun. His early days in broadcasting were spent in local radio and on the BBC World Service. He then progressed to television, working on 'Look North' for BBC North from 1977. He joined Thames Television in 1980.
In 1981, he got a job at ITN. He left ITN for a time in 1993 to take up a presenting job with the BBC on 'Newsroom South East'. He returned to ITN in September 1996. During his time with ITN has run four foreign bureaux - Warsaw, Washington, Moscow and Johannesburg - and was sports editor for just over two years (September 2003 - January 2006). He is now a news correspondent for ITV News.
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Sarah started out in newspapers at the Kenilworth Weekly News and then the Coventry Evening Telegraph. She then moved to radio, where she presented and read the news on BBC local radio in Hereford and Worcester, Coventry and Warwickshire and WM.
Sarah is currently a breakfast presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today'.
Colette has an MA Hons from Glasgow University and also studied for a post-graduate certificate in education (teaching).
Colette joined Scottish Television in 1993 as a graduate trainee. She became a regular news presenter and reporter for 'Scotland Today' and on the politics programme 'Scottish Voices'. She was also a presenter on the Sky Scottish channel. Colette left STV in 1999 to move to London.
Clive fronted BBC Northern Ireland's 'Scene Around Six' evening news magazine. He went on to become a national BBC TV News reporter between 1981 and 1986 and the Corporation's Scotland correspondent between 1986 and 1988.Senior 'Channel Report' presenter and reporter in the late-1980s until 1993 when she moved to BBC 'Look East' in Norwich. She was the main 'Breakfast News' presenter at BBC 'Look East' for four-and-a-half years, also occasionally presenting the main evening bulletin and continuing to report, and present specials like 'Children in Need'.
In late-1997, Cathy moved to Anglia TV and was a presenter and associate producer on ITV network's main religious programme of the time 'Morning Worship'. A year later she became producer of 'Morning Worship' successor, 'Sunday Morning' - ITV's religious chat show.
Since going freelance in 1999 she has worked mostly in production - as a producer on two series of 'Ultimate Questions', ITV's Sunday evening moral, philosphical and spiritual debate show. She has also worked as a producer/director on various regional and network projects and has spent a year launching and running a small community TV station.
Cathy continues to work in TV production and as a media consultant, trainer, lecturer and freelance writer. Before joining Channel TV, she trained as a journalist at the Jersey Evening Post and also worked as a producer/presenter for BBC Radio Jersey.
Steve was born in Larne, Northern Ireland. His broadcasting career began with BBC Northern Ireland in the early-1980s: he started off as a TV continuity announcer and also read the news on TV and on BBC Radio Ulster. He later fronted many sports programmes for BBC Northern Ireland, such as 'Grandstand' and 'Sportsnight'. He also produced and presented for BBC Radio Ulster.
In the late-1980s, Steve moved to Yorkshire to present a radio talk show on BBC Radio Leeds (for which he won a Sony Gold) Over the years, Steve has presented on various radio stations, including: BBC Radio Newcastle; BBC Radio Three Counties; BBC Radio WM. He also worked at BBC Radio 5 Live, where he wrote and hosted 'The Media Show' and presented on 'Late Night Live', and 'Breakfast'.
In the early-1990s, Steve started work with Yorkshire TV as a reporter and presenter. Among the programmes he presented: 'Calendar', 'Scoreline', 'Tonight' and 'Live Lunch'.
He also presented for BBC TV in the Midlands: 'The Midlands At Westminster' and read the news on 'Look North'
In 2001, he fronted the national ITV 1 quiz, 'The Biggest Game In Town', presenting ninety-six live editions of the show. He also presented the current affairs programme 'A Bitter Pill' on BBC One Network.
Steve is still based in Leeds, where he runs a media company alongside his broadcasting commitments.
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Áine presented Irish language news programmes on RTÉ TV and radio from the late-1980s. Since the late-1990s, she appeared on screen less often, becoming more involved in the production of the Irish language bulletins behind-the-scenes.
Long time presenter of 'Scene South East', Southern's weekly news magazine for the South East part of its region, broadcast from the Dover studio. In 1977, the programme spawned a spin-off, 'Scene Midweek'.
Mike remained with TVS after the 1982 changeover, on the sports team, and with colleague Veronica Charlwood presented an equestrian series, 'Horses For Courses'. Currently, Mike is a freelance sports reporter for Meridian Broadcasting's South East region.
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Adrian was a continuity announcer at BBC Wales for a short period in the first half of 1991 before moving to Network Presentation in London. He remained there until 1993 when he moved to Carlton for six months, then Anglia for another six, before returning to Network BBC One and BBC Two in 1994.
Adrian left to join BBC World in spring 1995. For a while he freelanced as an announcer at LWT in 1995 and 1996; around the same time he was also the pre-recorded voice of the Channel 4 'Schools' strand.
As well as being the voice of BBC World (albeit pre-recorded), Adrian also worked there as a news presenter. Adrian left the BBC in autumn 2004 to take up a position with CNN.
Roger joined RTHK in Hong Kong as a radio reporter in 1980. Until 1985, he worked on various radio and television productions in Hong Kong.
In 1985, he switched to UK TV: he became a reporter with 'John Craven's Newsround'. In the mid-1980s, he began to present the programme in rotation with John; he stayed on as a presenter following John's departure. In 1992, he moved to 'South Today' as a reporter (environment correspondent) and presenter.
John was an announcer on both RTÉ TV channels in the 1980s. In the early-1990s, he moved across to the newsroom to present TV and radio news bulletins. John has been one of the main presenters of the RTÉ One 'One o'Clock News' since 2005.Anglia Television reporter and presenter in the mid-1970s who moved to Granada Television at the end of the decade. There, she met Richard Madeley, and the couple later married, finding national fame as co-hosts of 'This Morning' on ITV which has run from 1988.
Currently, the couple present 'Richard and Judy' in an afternoon slot on Channel 4.
Alan was a news reporter and presenter with Grampian Television (1986 - 1990) and later Scottish Television (1990 - 1992). In 1992, he joined GMTV, becoming their first Ireland correspondent. He set up the station's Belfast bureau and reported on many major events in N. Ireland including the Shankill bombing, the Loughinisland and Greysteel massacres as well as the first IRA ceasefire.
In 1995, he became GMTV's senior correspondent, reporting on events such as the Dublane massacre and the death of Princess Diana. In 1999, he was appointed chief correspondent at the station. During his six years in that role, he covered major events such as the war in Bosnia and the Gulf War, reporting from Baghdad.
In 2005, Alan moved to the global television channel Al-Jazeera, where he is a senior correspondent.
David joined TSW as an announcer in the mid-1980s and stayed with the company until its franchise ended in December 1992. He established a good knockabout rapport with sidekick Gus Honeybun and was a main presenter of TSW's various 'Telethon' extravaganzas.
Since TSW went off the air, David has worked as a news reader and announcer at HTV West, and, later as the overnight news reader on Sky News. He is now controller of programmes at South Hams Radio in South Devon, where he also presents a show. He also appears from time to time on ITV 1 Westcountry.
News presenter with TV Three.Reporter and presenter with UTV since 1998. Alison has presented news bulletins and the lifestyle element of the main weekday UTV Live programme.One of the main presenters of 'Meridian Tonight' in the South East, sitting in the chair vacated by Alison Holloway in the mid-1990s. Previously, Sandy was a reporter/presenter for TVS.
Joined Granada TV in 1974 for a job on the company's news desk. Presenter, BBC TV's 'Man Alive' and 'Tomorrow's World', 1977. ITN newscaster between March 1978 and March 1981, and medical correspondent in 1980. She left ITN to help set up TV-am as one of the original "Famous Five", but left after a bitter boardroom battle shortly after the company started in April 1983.
BBC TV news reader since February 1989, on the 'One O'Clock News' and 'Six O'Clock News'. She was a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4's 'Today', from 1993 to 1998. Became the main anchor of the relaunched BBC TV 'One O'Clock News' programme, from May 1999.
Anna retired from news presenting in April 2006.
Channel Television reporter, presenter and news bulletin presenter.(Formerly Helen Morton). Helen's broadcasting career began with a national news agency at the age of 18. She went on to become an editor, reporter and presenter with Sky News.
In 1997 she joined GMTV where she was showbusiness correspondent and later US correspondent. In 2002 she moved back to the UK to present the BBC regional news programme in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 'Look North'.
Two-and-half years later, Helen returned to Sky. Helen is currently a relief presenter for Sky News and 'Five News'.
News reporter and presenter for Central and TV-am before moving to Plymouth to front 'Westcountry Live' from January 1993. He left the station in 1997 to join Sky News' business team. He is now of the regular anchors on Sky News.Main anchor of London News Network's 'London Tonight', from Mondays to Thursdays, in the early and mid-1990s.Juliette started her broadcasting career as a reporter at BBC Radio London in 1986. She was a researcher at BBC Manchester in 1987 and a trainee TV reporter with the BBC Asian, Afro Caribbean Reporters’ Trust from 1988 - 1990. Also during this time she was a journalist and regional reporter for TV-am.
From 1992 until 1995 she held various roles: reporter, 'Dispatches' and 'The Brief' (Channel 4); researcher/programme presenter (BBC Radio 5); producer (Associated Press Television); reporter (Carlton Television); news presenter (BBC World Service Television).
In 1996, she moved to Bloomberg TV where she was an anchor and producer.
Since 2001, Juliette has been a news anchor on Sky News.
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Susie obtained a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the London College Of Printing.
Her subsequent broadcast credits include: production assistant at BBC Radio Surrey in 1991; reporter, BBC Radio Suffolk; returned to BBC Radio Surrey as a news producer/editor and drivetime presenter; assistant producer, BBC political programmes in London, from 1994 (including 'Westminster Live', 'Westminster Daily', 'The Midnight Hour'). During the next few years, Susie reported for BBC local radio on national politics and also took up the position of political correspondent for BBC 'Look East'.
In 1997, Susie became one of the regular presenters on BBC 'Look East'.
Carrie has worked as a presenter on various UK networks, including: BBC News 24, ITV News Channel, Five News, Sky News, Sky Sports.
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John Francis went to school in Norwich and first trained as a reporter with the Eastern Daily Press, the newspaper where his father worked. John moved away from Norfolk and into broadcasting in the West Country, working for local and network radio and for BBC Television before returning to Norwich to join Anglia Television as news presenter and reporter in 1990. His wife is a freelance television producer who has also worked with Anglia TV, and they have two young children.Mainstay of Border TV's news team since the 1980s; occasional co-presenter of 'Lookaround', and also a Border weather presenter. Grampian Television reporter and presenter who regularly hosts 'North Tonight' and 'The People Show'. Pauline started her journalistic career in local newspapers.TTTV news reporter and presenter, who co-anchored 'Tyne Tees News' with Pam Royle before Mike Neville's return to the station, and the programme's relaunch as 'North East Tonight'.(MBE). Bob left school in 1953 at the age of 15, with no qualifications. However, that proved no obstacle to establishing himself in journalism. He started as a reporter with the Kent and Sussex Courier in Tunbridge Wells and later went on to freelance for various national newspapers.
In 1969, he joined the BBC working initially as a reporter based in Northern Ireland, where he witnessed the early days of the Troubles. After a brief stint in Vietnam, he was posted to Australia in 1973; he was the BBC's first correspondent there. In 1977, he became the BBC's Tokyo correspondent and by 1983 he had moved to the States as Breakfast Time's New York correspondent.
Bob joined Sky News in 1989, where he remained one of the channel's main news presenters until his retirement in October 2003. His final shift with Sky News was on Thursday 23 October 2003; he co-presented with Vivien Creegor on the 9pm - midnight shift. He collected his MBE on 29 October 2003.
Clare read politics at Hull University. She joined the BBC as a news trainee and spent four years with BBC Radio York as a reporter. She then moved to 'Look North' in Leeds as a presenter and won the BT News Broadcaster Of The Year award for the North East and Yorkshire region, in 1998.
In the early-2000s, she spent a period in York presenting the newly launched 'Look North' for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
She returned to the Leeds edition in 2002, fronting breakfast and lunchtime bulletins mainly.
Main anchor of 'Northern Life' in the 1980s, and also presented 'Tyne Tees Today' in the early-1990s. He didn't hang around when the programme relaunched as 'Tyne Tees News' and now presents on Century Radio.(Formerly Lynda Wilson). Lynda joined UTV as a continuity announcer and news reader in 2007. In addition to reading the news on UTV, Lynda also appears as a news reader on GMTV Northern Ireland.
Southern and TVS reporter/presenter who left the company in the late-1980s to found Topical Television, which went on to produce 'TV Weekly' for TVS and has also produced programmes for successors Meridian Broadcasting.
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One of Northern Ireland's best known presenters and a former Northern Ireland soccer star. Jackie's long career as a sports presenter began in the mid-1970s at Ulster Television, where he remained for almost 20 years, reporting for 'UTV Reports', 'Good Evening Ulster' and 'Six Tonight'. In 1992, he changed channels to BBC Northern Ireland, covering the daily sports news on 'Inside Ulster' and 'Newsline', as well as fronting many prestigious local sports events and co-presenting 'Children In Need'.
Since April 2004, Jackie's role in the 'Newsline' programme has switched to reporting only.
Started his journalistic career at international news agency Reuters, and is best known for his time as an ITN newscaster from 1967 until December 1990 (ITN's longest serving newscaster with 23 years' service) and also a news reporter, 1963 - 1992.
He was an original member of the 'News At Ten' team in 1967. Later he became famous for his frontline reports from Afghanistan.
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A former ITN newscaster (he joined ITN in 1961), who co-hosted 'News At Ten' with Reginald Bosanquet and Alastair Burnet, Gardner moved to Thames Television in 1977 to front the newly relaunched local news magazine programme 'Thames News' which replaced 'Today' and 'Thames At Six'.
He stayed in this role until shortly before Thames went off the air at the end of 1992, and it was Gardner who announced to London viewers that Thames had lost the franchise in 1991.
Andrew Gardner died on April 2 1999, but is still remembered with great affection by television viewers in London and the South East.
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Kate started her broadcasting career as a reporter with BBC Radio Oxford before moving to ITN as a trainee journalist in 1994. She then moved to 'Central News' as a production journalist, reporter and news presenter. In 1995, Kate joined Meridian Broadcasting, and spent two years as one of the main presenters of 'Meridian Tonight'. After leaving Meridian, she has presented for BBC News 24 and Sky News. She currently is a main presenter and news reader for GMTV.Presenter of LWT's weekly Sunday news review programme 'The Week', and news reader/reporter for LWT and Carlton London.
Siun presents the Irish language news programmes on RTÉ television.
Joined the BBC in 1958 as an announcer working on the Home Service, Third Service and Light Programme. He left in 1971 to freelance. In 1973 he joined Anglia TV as a news reader on 'About Anglia'. From 1977, he worked for LWT, IRN, BBC World Service and as a TV news reader in the United Arab Emirates. In 1981, he rejoined the BBC as an announcer on Radio 2.
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Michelle is a news presenter with ITV Yorkshire.
Tina is a reporter for 'Calendar', the ITV 1 regional news programme in the Yorkshire region. She also presents the 'Gripevine' section on the programme, taking up the concerns of people in the region with consumer-related problems.
Ben was a regular BBC News 24 presenter from the late-1990s until 2002. Since then he been working largely in a reporting role, though he does still have the odd presenting shift on BBC News 24.(Formerly Julia Botfield). Jules was a presenter for BBC London News in the early-2000s. During 2002, she presented news bulletins for BBC 'Breakfast'. She is now a reporter with BBC News in London. She is an occasional presenter on BBC News 24.(Formerly Sanderson). Kate joined the BBC in 1997 and became a presenter on 'Newsround'. She also worked on the 'Heaven And Earth Show' and 'Breakfast' during her seven years with the BBC.
In January 2005 she moved to 'Five News' as the presenter of the 11.30am programme.
Shiulie has a BA (Hons) law degree from the University of Kent.
In 1990, Shiulie started her television career as a news trainee at the BBC and went on to report for the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'. By 1991 she was regularly presenting their half-hour news slot.
In 1993, she joined the BBC's 'Country File' programme as a presenter and this was followed by a move in 1995 to 'Newsroom South East' as a reporter/presenter.
She joined ITN as a reporter in January 1998 and covered major events both at home and abroad. Later. she became ITN's home affairs editor working on its news service for ITV. She also occasionally presented ITV News programmes.
In July 2006, it was announced that Shiulie was to leave ITV News to join Al-Jazeera's English-language service, Al-Jazeera English. Shiulie was the opening anchor on the channel's launch in Doha on November 15 2006. In addition to her news presenting duties there, she also hosts 'Every Woman', a show focusing on women's issues.
Karin edited the student newspaper at Cambridge University, 'Varsity'. She also got involved in local radio whilst there and gained some work experience at Anglia TV. Having finished her finals, she was taken on as one of Anglia's graduate news trainees.
She presented on 'Anglia News' until c. 2004 when she joined the BBC. Karin can be seen presenting the news on BBC News 24 overnight (also shown on BBC World).
Wendy was a presenter on BBC North East's regional news programme, 'North East Tonight' in the late-1980s.
(Later Sally Faber, now Sally Johnson). Sally started at TSW as a continuity announcer/news reader. She was there under contract for one year. She then left to present the 'Ford Ski Report' for Sky Channel in 1987/1988, then 'Ski Sunday' for the BBC with David Vine in 1988/1989 (by now, Sally Faber, having married former West Wiltshire MP David Faber, the grandson of Harold MacMillan, in October 1988).
After a few years full time presenting corporate videos for companies such as Ford, Tesco, British Airways, Duty Free, BHS, National Electric and Nuclear Power, and researching, writing and presenting for BMW, Sally had her first child in 1992. She then moved to LNN at Carlton TV in London as a weather presenter. After eighteen months there, she presented a live phone-in show twice weekly on the Travel Channel and interviewed over forty celebrities.
In 1995 and again in 1996, she worked for Anglia Television on two series of 'Countrywide', where she had to take up twenty-four sports over two years, including race riding, land yachting and microlighting. Following this, she presented a series of programmes for Channel 4 on 'Polo'.
After having a second child (mid-1997), she went into semi-retirement. Sally presented a sports programme for Sky Sports for a couple of years, covering the British Polo season. More recently, she has been involved in interviewing for HCTV, a new digital channel. She lives between the USA and Gloucestershire, with her three children.
Gary is a former host of 'UTV Reports' (late-1970s), and then 'Good Evening Ulster' (1980s). He eventually moved behind the camera to become Head of News at UTV.
Since 1999, he made regular on-screen appearances both as a sports reporter and presenter.
Other TV credits: regular commentator on 'RPM' (motorsport programme, UTV, early-1990s - present).
Long serving Anglia TV continuity announcer, news reader and presenter, who was a well known face on the station from 1977. Katie remained with the station after the switch to voice only continuity until 1998 when Meridian Broadcasting took over continuity for Anglia. Recently, she has been heard on satellite TV channel Rapture.
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David's journalistic career began in 1972 as a reporter with F. Johnston newspapers. In 1976, he moved into broadcasting, becoming a reporter and news reader with Radio Forth in Edinburgh. He moved to BBC Scotland in 1978, where he was a reporter and presenter. In 1981, he took up a similar position with Scottish Television.
In 1986, David moved to ITN as a reporter. The newly launched Sky News beckoned in 1989, where he was an anchorman and foreign correspondent. From 1996 until 1998 he worked as a freelance PR consultant/broadcaster. Since 1998, David has been working as a presenter/reporter with ITV Meridian.
Among his career highlights: covered the Tiananmen Square uprising; based in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for three months covering 'Desert Shield'; covered the fall of the Berlin Wall; based in New York and Washington covering AIDS-related stories; as an anchorman, he has covered countless 'live' breaking news stories from the studio - sometimes for hours on end.
Awards: Royal Television Society award for a series of reports on the spread of AIDS; TRICS award for an investigation into AIDS; Metropolis Prize (Paris) for best documentary (heroin addiction); Broadcast Journalist of the Year and Campaign of the Year - Shepherd Neame awards; BT award for regional journalism.
Other information: in 2008, David set up his own PR company - Glencorse Communications Ltd, based in London. He offers consultancy - including crisis management and media training - to a diverse range of clients.
David is married to Penny McDonald, managing director of Europe's biggest and most successful showbiz/music PR agency, the Outside Organisation.
Presenter on ITV Border's 'Lookaround' in the 1980s and 1990s.Karthi graduated with a classics degree from Cambridge University, specialising in ancient archaeology and art.
She was a freelance sports presenter for '5 News' and a reporter for the BBC's entertainment show 'Liquid News'.
Karthi is currently a reporter and presenter with 'BBC London News'. She also reports for 'Grandstand' and 'Final Score' on BBC One and various sports shows on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Long serving Westcountry Television reporter and news reader, originally for the North Devon sub-region and now in the Exeter based eastern sub-region.Bulletin presenter with 'Central News' (West).News reader/reporter for 'ATV Today'. Rob frequently used to read the late news headlines and regularly handled the more serious, heavyweight stories in the ATV newsroom.Amanda has presented the BBC 'Look East Close Up' news service from Cambridge since it was launched in 1997.Angela was a regular presenter of Channel TV's former 'Telejournal' French language topicality programme.Reporter and presenter for STV's 'Scotland Today' in the early-1980s who moved to Central TV and then on to London News Network as a reporter for 'London Today'/'London Tonight' where he remains today.
Joanna's journalistic career began in the newsroom of Fox FM in Oxfordshire. A switch to television followed, with a presenting/reporting job at Central Television and then national exposure on Sky News where she was a reporter.
In 1999, she joined the BBC, working initially as a presenter on the overnight BBC News 24/BBC World news service. By the early-2000s, Joanna was presenting weekday daytime shifts on BBC News 24.
She remains with BBC News 24 at present and also presents on BBC 'Breakfast'.
Jonny was a sports reporter with BSB from 1990 to 1991. From 1997 until 2001 he was a sports/news presenter at Channel 5. He then moved to ITV Sport as a football presenter; he remained in this role until 2003.
However, during 2002, Jonny was also a football narrator for Channel 4's 'Football Italia' and a football reporter for Prem Plus.
Since 2008, Jonny has been a news commentator for Sky News, where he reviews the newspapers and provides comment and analysis on sports events at weekends.
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Starting her career in local newspapers, Kirstin joined Grampian Television as a trainee reporter in 1995 and is now one of the main presenters of 'North Tonight'.
Mike started his broadcasting career as a radio presenter on Radio Forth in 1974. In 1979, he joined BBC Scotland as a continuity announcer. The following year, he moved over to STV where he was a continuity announcer, news reader and sub-editor, until 1990. Mike then moved into production for STV, working as a producer/director until 1999, when he went freelance.
Mike also lectures at Napier University and Glasgow Metropolitan College.
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Carrie was born in Bahrain and educated in England and Scotland. She graduated with a first class degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1984. She moved to China, where she taught English and economics for a year before returning to the UK to set up a small film business.
In 1987, she got a job as a production trainee with the BBC World Service. From 1991 until 1995, she reported from Beijing. Then it was back to school to further enhance her academic qualifications, earning an MA in design for interactive media and completing a degree in Mandarin Chinese. She then returned to the Beijing bureau for two years.
Carrie returned to the UK in 1999, initially presenting on the BBC World Service. She is currently a presenter on BBC News 24, covering morning shifts mostly, on Friday and Saturday.
Harry started doing match reports for BBC Radio Leeds in 1971. At the time, he was a history teacher. He joined the radio station full time in 1978; he became sports editor on 1980.
C. 1983, Harry became a regular face on BBC North's regional news programme, 'Look North'.
He also worked on the 'Today' programme for BBC Radio 4, presented 'Grandstand' a few times and was a regular on BBC Network sports programmes for 25 years.
In 1994, he became Public Affairs Executive for the Rugby League. A year later, he returned to broadcasting and presented the BBC's 'South Today'.
In 1999, Harry returned to 'Look North' after a five year break.
Natalie's career started off in newspaper journalism with The Staines and Egham News and Surrey Herald. She then moved into broadcasting, joining County Sound in Guildford.
Television was next; Natalie was a news reporter at TVS and then Meridian. She went on to become a presenter on 'Meridian Tonight'.
Natalie is now a reporter with 'Anglia News' in the East of the region.
One of Granada Television's best known news anchors who hosted 'Granada Reports' in the 1970s, 1980s and first half of the 1990s (the programme title changed to 'Granada Tonight' in 1990). Greaves is also synonymous with the 'Granada Action' social and community affairs strand. In a similar vein, he also presented 'Scramble', Granada's local series for the unemployed and low-waged.
TTVRP contributor, Ian Halsall, wrote in with his memories of Bob: "From my memory of Bob Greaves when I lived in the North West, he became a bit of a cult symbol in the early-1990s. Known as 'Happening Bob' in true Manchester style, he jokingly sold himself on 'Granada Tonight' as a pop pundit. I remember t-shirts being available in selected high street record stores in Manchester of Bob's face with the above slogan similar to Sarah Lancashire (of Coronation Street Raquel fame) being sold on similar white t-shirts to say 'voulez vous couchet avec moi ce soir?'
"Bob is also renowned from an early 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' owing to an association with an elephant at Chester Zoo which tried to fondle a certain part of his anatomy with it's trunk - (on par with Yorkshire TV's Richard Whiteley and the legendary ferret!). Finally I also recall Bob side-by-side with former 'North West Tonight' anchor and local news rival Stuart Hall who left the BBC and regularly appeared on 'Granada Tonight' in the very early 90s doing a weekly piece 'Greaves And Hall'."
Jimmy Greeley was one of the original lineup of RTÉ Radio 2 DJs. In the early-1990s, Jimmy was a relief television news presenter at RTÉ; he also covered news reading shifts on RTÉ Radio 1. By the mid-1990s Jimmy had moved to Dublin based radio station 98FM where he was a news reader. Since 2006, Jimmy has been presenting a restaurant review programme on local TV station, City Channel.One of the original announcing team at Ulster Television, Jimmy's duties as an announcer and news reader ran from 1959 to 1965. He also presented 'Roundabout' in 1962, replacing Ivor Mills.
Jimmy left the station in 1965 to pursue an acting career in London, and has since appeared in 'Casualty', 'Heartbeat', 'Holby City', 'William And Mary' and a Camay soap commercial, along with Nicola Paget.
Reporter/news reader and relief presenter for 'Thames News' from the mid-1980s. Paul joined LNN (news provider to Carlton London and LWT) at its launch in 1993 as its main news reader on local news bulletins. Paul is still with the ITV London news programme.
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BBC Radio Home Service announcer, 1949 - 1960. Appeared as the announcer on BBC Radio's 'The Goon Show', 1953 - 1960. BBC TV news reader, July 1954 until May 1957. Greenslade was a large, bespectacled man who was remembered for always taking off his glasses at the end of a news bulletin. Presenter, BBC Radio 4's 'Today' in 1960. He died on 21 April 1961, aged 48.Yorkshire Television's news editor who also fronted news bulletins for the station. Jim went on to work in public relations for South Yorkshire Police. He died in October 2003, and a memorial service took place on October 25 2003 at the Kingdom Hall, Eckington.
Anne was a presenter on UTV's local news magazine programme 'Roundabout'; she was also an announcer at the station. She left Ulster Television to join Anglia TV's 'About Anglia' in 1962, before moving to the BBC in London where she was an in-vision announcer from 1963 until 1964.
She was well known for her work on the 'Holiday' programme from 1980 until 1991. She was also a BBC Radio 4 announcer in 1982.
Anne lost a battle against cancer on September 06 2006; she was 66.
1990s Anglia News journalist/presenter who moved to ITN where she presented on the ITN News Channel and on the 'ITV Early Morning News'.
Tracey-Anne started off with Downtown Radio as a news reader from the late-1980s. She moved into television c. 1992, becoming a continuity announcer and news reader on Ulster Television.
Tracey-Anne moved to London in 1996 to take up an announcing role with Channel 4; she is also heard on E4 and regularly voices FilmFour trails. Tracey-Anne has also worked for Sky News, Living TV and Discovery.
Main host of Thames' local news magazine programme 'Today' (1970 - 1977). He is best remembered for his infamous interview with the Sex Pistols on that programme in 1976, which has been repeated ad infinitum on scores of nostalgic television documentaries and theme nights. The incident caused something of an uproar at the time, but, looking back at it from today's perspective, the episode seems pretty inoffensive. Grundy and 'Today' made way for a new, 'newsier' programme, 'Thames At Six' a year later.Anglia Television news reader and presenter in the early-1990s who moved on to read the news on BBC Radio 2.Central TV sports presenter who joined the company in 1982 and remains with Carlton Television's 'Central News' today. Before joining Central, Bob worked for the BBC, and he also freelanced for ITV since the early-1980s. He hosts all of Central's major sports shows, and is also well known to viewers across the UK for his work as a football reporter on many networked ITV sports shows. Bob has also worked for ITN and also for 'Channel 4 Daily'.
Stuart was a presenter on the BBC North West regional news programme from 1964 until 1990 and fondly remembered for his continual laughing as a presenter on 'It's A Knockout' from 1972 until 1982.
He switched to Granada TV in 1991.
Since the late-1950s, he has been a regular on BBC Radio (currently BBC Radio 5 Live) using his great love of the English language within football reports from the North West region.
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RTÉ news presenter.Best known for his time as a high profile reporter on ITN, 1978 - 1989, Jeremy Hands left to join Anglia TV from 1989. He died in March 1999.
'ATV Midlands News' and 'Midland Montage' news reporter who went on to anchor 'ATV Today' in the early-1970s. Reg continued his career with Central Television and worked from time to time as a presenter on 'Central Weekend' with Sue Jay and Andy Craig, and also as a presenter of the political programme 'Central Lobby'. He currently works as a producer with Carlton TV.
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Yorkshire Television reporter and presenter for many years, Alan has also fronted several other local topicality programmes for the station, and also manned the Lincolnshire patch for Calendar. Alan retired from YTV in 2002 but can now be heard presenting on BBC Radio Lincolnshire every weekday.
Thames Television presenter, 1972 - 1977 and reporter, 1968 - 1974. He also presented 'Thames Report' in the early-1980s.
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Reporter and news reader for Southern Television in the 1970s and 1980s and for its successor, TVS.BBC TV 'Nationwide' reporter between 1975 and 1979 who went on to anchor BBC Northern Ireland's 'Scene Around Six' in the early-1980s.
Reporter, BBC Southampton's 'South Today', 1968 until 1976 and a presenter of the programme in 1988. He presented BBC Bristol's 'Points West' from 1976 to 1982. He was a BBC TV national news reader, July 1985 until October 1987 and between February 1988 until December 1997, appearing on the 'One O'Clock News', 'Six O'Clock News', 'Nine O'Clock News' and 'News View'. Also a presenter of BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' 1993 - TBC. More recently he has appeared on BBC News 24 and as one of the main anchors for the ITV News Channel.
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One of the main anchors of Grampian's 'North Tonight' programme who also fronts 'The People Show' and stands in on 'Grampian Midweek'.
Joining the station fresh from a post-graduate course in journalism, Katy Haswell was Westcountry's first 'Westcountry Live' co-anchor, presenting the programme with experienced hand David Foster from the beginning of 1993. A vivacious character, Katy went on to front news bulletins for London News Network and ITN's News Channel, and was the subject of a pictorial feature in lads' mag FHM.
Katy left Westcountry in late-1994 to pursue her national career and was replaced on the anchor set by Alison John.
Katy was an ITN newscaster on 'World News' and 'Morning News', September 1995 - 1996. She was also relief presenter on LNN's 'London Tonight' in December 1997 and presented the late night bulletins in July 1997 and since April 1998.
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Gerald was a presenter and reporter on BBC 'Points West' in the 1980s.Continuity announcer/news reader with Ulster Television from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s.
Original member of BBC Leeds' Look North team who then moved to London as a BBC TV News home reporter, 1974 - 1980 and 1983 - 1986. He was South Africa correspondent, 1980 - 1983.
Philip was a BBC TV relief news reader in April 1984, and between May 1985 and July 1985. He joined permanently in July 1986, remaining until January 1994. Relief presenter, 'Breakfast News', 1992 - 1994. Presenter on BBC Manchester's 'North West Tonight' in 1994, and news reader on BBC World in 1995.
More recently, he has presented on BBC News 24 and appeared again on BBC One reading the weekend news in August 2001.
In September 2005, Philip left the BBC because of a personality clash with a presenting colleague.
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Ably manned the 'TSW Today' newsdesk right up until the very last programme on 31 December 1992. He then moved to present 'Central News' (East) from Nottingham. Recently, he switched sides to front the BBC's 'East Midlands Today'.Main presenter of Scottish Television's 'Scotland Today', often the lunchtime programme, since autumn 2000. Before that, Sarah hosted 'S2 Live' on Scottish digital channel, S2.Reporter and presenter with 'Anglia News West' since March 1998.Fiona's journalistic career began in the late-1980s in her native Northern Ireland at BBC Radio Foyle in Derry. In 1988 she moved across the Irish Sea to BBC Scotland where she presented and reported for 'Reporting Scotland' and other current affairs programmes.
In 1989, she returned to Northern Ireland and took up a presenting and reporting role for the BBC in Belfast, working on both radio and television in news and current affairs.
In 1991, she returned to BBC Scotland, becoming part of the presenting and reporting team on 'Reporting Scotland'. She is still with the programme.
She has also presented 'Good Morning Scotland' and 'Newsdrive' on BBC Radio Scotland and contributes to 'Woman's Hour' on BBC Radio 4.
Martin was a presenter with BBC 'North West Tonight' from the 1980s until 2004.
In 2004, Martin retired from broadcasting to concentrate on media training.
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Channel TV reporter and presenter who went on to work as a camerawoman - the first in the ITV network.Former Channel Television reporter and presenter who went on to become managing director of the station.Sasha has presented on the ITV News Channel, ITV 1 summaries, 'ITV Morning News' and 'London Tonight'; she has also been a news reporter for ITV News and Sky News and a features reporter for '5 News'.
Sasha appears regularly on LBC radio as a commentator and guest.
She specialises in music, and also Chinese politics and history, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Main co-anchor of HTV's 'Wales At Six', and then 'Wales Tonight' in the late-1980s and 1990s, and still occasionally appears on the nightly ITV Wales news programme.
She began her broadcasting career with BBC Wales where she spent 6 years as a researcher, sub-editor and reporter, and then joined HTV in 1983 as a reporter/presenter. She is also a presenter/producer of HTV's weekly arts programme 'High Performance', and her programme 'Not A Bad Voice', a tribute to Sir Geraint Evans on his 70th birthday, won the 1992 BAFTA Cymru award for Best Contribution To Music Entertainment.
Nicola now presents a daily show on BBC Radio Wales.
Jane's first job in broadcasting was with BBC local radio at the age of 16.
She studied politics at London University and joined the BBC full time in late-1991. She was a producer with BBC Radio Five Live for 18 months. On completing the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme, Jane moved into television.
She was a presenter on BBC Southampton's 'South Today' in 1997. Later that year. she joined BBC News 24 when it launched. She is still with the channel today.
During her time with the 24 hour news channel, Jane has anchored live coverage of many key news stories: the aftermath of September 11th; the first anniversary commemorations at Ground Zero in New York; the war in Iraq - broadcasting for nearly eight hours continuously.
As well as her BBC News 24 role, Jane also occasionally presents BBC One weekend bulletins and the weekday 'One O'Clock News'.
Current main anchor of ITV 1 Wales news programme 'Wales Tonight'. Jonathan has been a key news presenter for the channel for the last few years after joining the company as a news reporter in 1993. He has also reported and presented for 'Wales This Week' and his investigation into a notorious Welsh murder case won a BAFTA Award.Carol's first broadcasting experience was as a volunteer with a local hospital radio station in London.
Carol is now a news reader with BBC 'East Midlands Today'.
Anglia TV news reader in the early-1960s.Bruce Hockin retired from his job as HTV News anchorman in 1996, but still holds the record as ITV's longest serving news reader, with more than thirty continuous years in the job.
He started his television career with HTV's predecessor, TWW, and moved over to Harlech to front the West of England regional news magazine 'Report' in 1968. HTV later changed the programme's name to 'HTV News' but Hockin remained in the main presenter's chair, working with numerous co-presenters over the years, including Jan Leeming, Alison Holloway, Richard Wyatt, Sue King, and Patricia Yorston.
Hockin had a particular interest in crime busting, and for many years fronted the HTV West version of 'Police Five'. After officially retiring from the company, he continued to write and present the weekly 'Crimestoppers' slot. Although retired, Bruce is president of the Bristol Hospital Broadcasting Service. Bruce has been known to make occasional broadcasts on there himself! Bruce also serves as a director on Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Avon and Somerset Crimestoppers boards. He is also a patron of the Skin Cancer Research Fund.
Alyson was an announcer/news reader with Ulster Television for a short period in the early-1980s. She has also worked for BBC Radio Ulster.
Today, Alyson runs her own cosmetics company based in Antrim.
James was a presenter on BBC 'Look North' from 1966 until 1970. He then moved to national TV, where he worked as a reporter on various BBC programmes: '24 Hours' (1970 - 1971), 'Nationwide' (1972 - 1982) and 'Newsnight' (1982 - 1988).Alison Holloway started her television career amazingly young at the age of 17 as a continuity announcer and news reader at Westward Television. She was soon poached by HTV West in Bristol, at first joining the company as a reporter/presenter, but eventually graduating to co-anchor HTV News with veteran news reader Bruce Hockin.
Holloway remained with the station through most of the 1980s, combining her news duties with presenting many other local programmes for HTV West, including the 'Good Neighbour Show' and the networked 'Animal Express'. She left to join the newly-formed Sky News as one of its main presenters, but didn't stay for long, and for a while kept a low profile.
She re-emerged in 1993 as co-presenter of 'Meridian Tonight' from Maidstone, but after a short while left the company and the country for a new life in Los Angeles, where she still now lives. She was briefly married to comedian Jim Davidson, having met him whilst interviewing him for the entertainment slot on 'HTV News'. A whirlwind romance and wedding followed, but the marriage soon ended in acrimony, well documented by the tabloid press.
BBC News home reporter, 1956 - 1961; BBC TV News assistant parliamentary correspondent, 1961 - 1963; assistant political correspondent, 1963 - 1970; deputy political editor, 1970 - 1972; political editor, 1975 - 1980.
BBC Two news reader on 'News Extra', October 1973 until February 1975. Holmes moved into BBC management in 1973 and between 1980 and 1985. He is married to Linda Alexander (of 'Newsnight' and a relief BBC TV news reader in 1982).
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BBC Radio Overseas/Third Programme announcer, 1945 - 1979. BBC TV news reader, July 1954 until May 1957. He died on 15 April 1986, aged 69.
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After studying journalism at Belfast College of Business Studies, Eamonn worked briefly for a trade magazine before joining Ulster Television in 1981 as a presenter/reporter on a farming programme, 'Farming Ulster'. He also reported on sport. In 1982, Eamonn took over from Gloria Hunniford on 'Good Evening Ulster' which he presented until his move to BBC Manchester in September 1986, to present 'Open Air'.
In 1989, Eamonn was asked to host BBC One's 'Holiday' programme. In the early-1990s, he was a sports news presenter on 'Breakfast Time'.
From January 1993, Eamonn was one of the original team of presenters at GMTV.
In October 2005, he joined the Sunrise team on Sky News, co-presenting with Lorna Dunkley. Eamonn had quit GMTV earlier in the year.
Eamonn also currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio 5 Live every Saturday; he has a column in the Sunday People newspaper; he presents an easy listening music show on London's 105.4FM every Sunday; and he hosts 'The National Lottery Jetset' on BBC One.
Eamonn launched his autobiography 'This Is My Life' in May 2006.
Other TV programmes that Eamonn has been involved with: 'Check It Out' (consumer affairs programme, UTV); 'All Mixed Up' (quiz, UTV).
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Granada Television continuity announcer from 1961 until 1964 and also a regional presenter for Thames TV in London in 1968. He later built up somewhat of a cult following amongst students as the long serving host of Central TV's 'Blockbusters' on ITV in the 1980s and early-1990s.
Cornishman Gordon Honeycombe was a reporter and news reader for ITN (1965 - 1977) who joined TV-am as the main news bulletin reader (1984 - 1989). Honeycombe always seemed warm but stern while on screen. Off camera, he was a flamboyant, fun-loving character with a devilish sense of humour.
Gordon now lives in Australia.
He returned to ITN for one night (22 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Russell Hookey moved to Channel TV from the Chrysalis Group in London where he had been news reading on London radio stations Heart 106.2 and LBC 97.3 (often heard as a regular member of Sandi Toksvig's team) and also presenting on LBC News 1152. Prior to that he worked in commercial and BBC radio in the regions for more than twelve years as a news reader, producer and reporter and occasionally popped up covering stories for television with BBC 'South Today'.
At Channel TV, Russell was initially a stand-in presenter on 'Channel Report'; he later became one of the programme's regular presenters. He also provided continuity announcements at Channel TV.
Russell later moved to ITV Border, where he currently presents bulletins and fills in on the main 'Lookaround' programme.
HTV 'Wales At Six' mainstay in the early-1980s, with Liz Lloyd Griffiths.
Nina studied English language and linguistics at Durham University, before gaining a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
On graduating, Nina was selected for a traineeship at Border Television in Carlisle. Whilst there, she was a reporter, presenter and producer.
In 2000, Nina moved to London take up a presenting job with The Medical Channel. In 2001, she joined the BBC and became a regular presenter and reporter on 'BBC London News'.
In November 2004, Nina moved to ITN where she has presented on 'London Tonight'. Since early-2006 she has been the regular co-presenter of the 'ITV Evening News'.
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The main female co-anchor of ATV's main evening news programme, 'ATV Today', in the 1970s.
Well known Thames Television announcer and news reader (from the late-1970s to 1992) and LWT continuity announcer. Robin was also a familiar voice to viewers across the ITV network, for his voice-overs at award ceremonies and the Royal Variety Show. Robin has also been heard as the voice of the questions on Channel 5's '100%'; he also presented the channel's 'One To Win' gameshow.Rebecca is a presenter with Channel Television.
Started her television career as a news reader and announcer on HTV West in the early-1980s. She then moved to TSW as a continuity announcer in the mid-1980s before moving to BBC TV South as their early morning news reader. Jenny is probably best known for her time as co-presenter with Des Lynam of 'How Do They Do That?'. She now presents 'ITV West News' from Bristol.Website
His early TV career was based at TWW in Cardiff, which he joined after a spell as a reporter on the local Western Mail newspaper. He joined BBC TV News as a reporter in 1970; later positions included New York correspondent, 1972 - 1974, Washington correspondent, 1974 - 1977, South Africa correspondent, 1977 - 1980, diplomatic correspondent, 1980 - 1981 and a BBC TV news reader from June 1981 until December 1984, mainly on the 'Nine O'Clock News'.
From July 1989 to March 1998, he appeared semi-regularly as a relief news reader. Since 1987 he has been one of the main presenters on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' as well as presenting Radio 4's 'On the Ropes', and from 1993 until 2003, BBC One's 'On the Record'.
He was named Journalist of the Year in 2000 in an awards ceremony organised by The House magazine and Channel 4.
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Gloria's broadcasting career began in 1969 as a news and current affairs reporter. She spent the 1970s and early-1980s working in that area for BBC Northern Ireland and Ulster Television. In 1979, she became one of the main anchors on Ulster Television's relaunched local news programme, 'Good Evening Ulster'.
In 1982, she moved across the Irish Sea to the BBC in London where she became the first woman to have her own daily show on BBC Radio 2. Gloria's show remained in the Radio 2 schedule until May 1995.
In 1994, Gloria became the regular presenter of ITV's flagship Sunday morning religious magazine programme 'Sunday' and 'Sunday Live'.
In April 1998, she hosted a regular weekday afternoon lifestyle show on Channel 5, 'Open House', delivering the channel some of its highest daytime ratings. 'Open House' continued until December 2002.
Gloria has presented and been involved with many TV programmes over the years - a sample: 'Time Off With...' (BBC); 'Through The Keyhole' (BBC); 'Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook' (BBC); 'Today's The Day' (BBC); 'Shooting Stars' (BBC); 'Going Going Gone' (BBC); 'Call My Bluff' (BBC); 'Kilroy' (BBC); 'Esther' (BBC); 'It's Only TV And I Like It' (BBC); 'Countdown' (Ch 4); 'This Morning' (ITV); 'Wogan' (stand-in presenter, BBC); 'We Love TV' (LWT); 'Something For The Weekend' (BBC NI); 'Family Affairs' (co-hosted with daughter Caron Keating, BBC); 'Cashwise' (BBC); 'Good Fortune' (BBC); 'That's Showbusiness' (BBC).
She has won many prestigious awards during her 30 year career including TV Personality of the Year, Radio Personality of the Year and Best Dressed Female. She is a patron of a number of deserving charities and dedicates much time to the good causes she supports. Gloria was President of the Television and Radio Industries Club 1999 - 2000 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
STV reporter and news bulletin presenter.Granada Television news presenter in the late-1980s and early-1990s, fronting 'Granada Reports', 'Granada Tonight', and later the community orientated 'Granada Action'. After leaving Granada TV, Huntley branched out into a range of broadcasting related work, including media training for Bristol based BBS.Mishal joined the BBC as a producer. She then became a business reporter and presenter. In September 2000 she became the launch presenter of 'Asia Business Report' (based in Singapore). She later returned to London to co-present 'World Business Report'.
Mishal is a regular business and news presenter on BBC World.
In early-2006, she was appointed as one of the new regular presenters of the BBC One/BBC News 24 'Breakfast' programme.
Other TV projects: Mishal has also appeared on BBC One's 'Real Story' and presents 'Hardtalk Extra' - an interview-based programme focusing on the world of the arts.
Gillian worked briefly as a continuity announcer with UTV c. 1996. She then disappeared off our screens, turning up again a few years later as a reporter on 'UTV Live' and presenter of 'UTV Life'. Since early-2002, Gillian has been reading the news on local radio stations Downtown Radio and Cool FM.
Kim is a freelance TV presenter and reporter. She is also available for corporate filming and voice-over work. To date, credits include a variety of information voice-overs and health and safety videos.
Kim is an experienced public speaker and offers training to equip people with the skills necessary to help them look and speak better and feel more at ease addressing an audience. She also visits schools and colleges explaining the world of news, what makes a news story and how to tell it.
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1995 - 2008: news, programme presenter and reporter for ITV Tyne Tees, including 'North East Tonight', 'Call Dr Jane', 'Property Matters' and 'Past Crimes'. Kim also presented 'This Morning' with Phillip Schofield.
1993 - 1995: presenter and reporter at Border TV, Carlisle.
Kim has a degree in French/Italian from the University of Manchester. She is also a fully-qualified journalist.
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Joan started in broadcasting at Radio Tay in 1982. She moved to Grampian in 1983 where she presented 'North Tonight' and various news documentaries. She moved into presenting politics and current affairs, hosting 'Crossfire' which she combined with establishing her own media company, The Fifth Business.
Joan left television shortly after the SMG takeover. She was the runner-up in Scottish Businesswoman of the Year 2000. Joan obtained an MA (Hons) in politics and jurisprudence from Dundee University and an MBA from Aberdeen University.
Co-anchor of 'Thames News' with Andrew Gardner throughout most of the 1980s; this pair were probably the programme's most famous double act.
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Jayne's early on-screen appearances for TV-am were as a news bulletin presenter. Later on, she became one of the station's main anchors, both on 'Good Morning Britain' and 'After Nine'. Jayne went on to present for various regional companies, including 'Westcountry Focus' for Westcountry Television, and also the Living satellite channel. In 1999, she presented the 'Cheating Hearts' strand on Talk Radio.
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Mariam started with the BBC as a freelance reporter for BBC Three Counties Radio in 1991. She became permanent staff two years later.
In January 1996, Mariam joined BBC 'Look East'. During her time there she has carried out a variety of jobs, including reporting for 'East At Westminster', Ceefax and News Online.
Mariam now reads the breakfast bulletins on BBC 'Look East'.
Westcountry TV news reporter and regional bulletin presenter. She also occasionally co-anchors the main nightly 'Westcountry Live' show.Blair's career as a broadcast journalist began on the news desk at BBC Solent in Southampton. He later moved to BBC Radio Humberside where he presented the tea-time programme initially. He now presents a daily phone-in programme at the station - 'Soapbox'.
Blair also presents television news bulletins for 'Look North'.
Becky graduated from the University of Luton in 1997 with a BA Hons in media performance.
She started off in broadcasting at Vibe FM, eventually becoming the co-presenter on the breakfast show. Since then she has had a varied career: weather girl for Anglia TV; reporter and presenter on BBC's 'Newsround' (November 2001 - February 2003); co-presenter on the breakfast show at Capital Radio (March 2003 - December 2004); presenter and reporter for GMTV's 'Entertainment Today'; co-presenter 'The Wright Stuff' on Five; presenter, Sky Sports News.
In May 2005, Becky returned to 'Anglia News' as a presenter and reporter.
(Brocklebank). Westcountry TV news reporter and main presenter of the station's eastern sub-region local news opt-out for several years from 1993. Sheila went on to join former Westcountry colleague David Foster as one of the main anchors on Sky News.Presenter of 'Seven Days', the topical Sunday news magazine, which is networked across Scottish Television and Grampian Television transmission areas.Tina was a presenter with BBC 'Points West' in 1982. In 1983, she joined Thames TV as news reader, becoming one of the main anchors there in 1985. She left Thames in 1985.
She later moved to Sky News to present the Wild West End strand within 'Live at Five'.
David began his broadcasting life in radio. His first job was with BBC Radio 4 on 'The World At One'. He was the first voice on LBC.
David then moved into television and was involved with various current affairs programmes and programmes specialising in miscarriages of justice: 'Rough Justice' (BBC); 'Trial And Error' (Channel 4).
In 2000, he left broadcasting temporarily to become Commissioner on the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
In 1998, he was awarded the RTS Special Award for his career in investigating miscarriages of justice.
David currently presents news programmes for BBC World as well as writing documentaries.
Annie was a continuity announcer for Tyne Tees TV, HTV West and LWT in 1984. She also presented several programmes for HTV, including co-anchoring the main nightly news programme with fellow presenters Bruce Hockin, Richard Wyatt and Alison Holloway.
Sadly, Annie died in late-1990. She is remembered for her warmth, her sense of fun and her sincerity.
Former newspaper journalist who has co-hosted 'Westcountry Live' since 1995, first with David Foster and later with Richard Bath.Roger's broadcasting career began in local radio in 1988. He has worked on BBC local radio in Suthampton and Manchester.
Since 1997, he has been a sports presenter with BBC South's 'South Today', He also acts as stand-in for Sally Taylor.
Roger has also appeared on screen on BBC News 24 and BBC 'Final Score'.
Jeanie Johnston has been with Ulster Television since 1978. Much of her time with the station has been spent as a reporter within the news department. She has also occasionally presented UTV news bulletins.
Jeanie was features editor at UTV until 2009, when she left the station as part of a voluntary redundancy programme.
Legendary East of England television presenter, who started with Anglia in 1959, and went on to become the first host of the regional news magazine programme 'About Anglia' from 1960 to 1965. Joice continued to present his farming diary, and also 'Bygones', an Anglia local programme that made it to the ITV network.
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1990s 'Anglia News' anchor, who moved on to report and present for BBC News 24, latterly as Midlands correspondent. She is now arts correspondent for BBC Radio.
Sally was a presenter on 'Central News' in the West Midlands in the mid-1980s. She went on to become a national sports presenter on the BBC's 'Breakfast News' and has presented various BBC networked programmes She's also a former tennis champion.
Sally is now a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Career overview:
• BBC News trainee; Westward TV reporter; HTV (Wales) presenter/reporter; co-presenter 'Wales At Six'; reporter, ITN and 'Channel 4 News',
• Central TV: co-presenter 'Central News'; reporter, 'Central Lobby' - politics show.
• In the late-1980s, moved to become sport and news presenter at 'BBC Breakfast News' and Britain's first networked female sports presenter, fronting BBC TV's Olympics coverage (1988 and 1992).
• Former 'Woman's Hour' presenter from Birmingham; presented 'Transworld Sport'; 'On The Line' - BBC sports politics show; 'The Garden Party' - networked BBC magazine show from Glasgow.
• Tennis champion - 5 Blues at Oxford; World Real Tennis champion, 1989 - 1995; captained Midlands schools and Oxford University at netball; GB Universities squash champion.
• Now a prolific freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster, specialising in sport, education, business and the countryside.
• Media training: clients include the National Trust and British three-day event team.
• Press officer of the Real Tennis and Rackets Association.
• Research and place articles and organise media coverage for a range of businesses, charities and sports organisations, including Neptune Investment Management, M & G Investments, Maurice Lacroix Swiss Watches, Warwickshire LTA, National Rounders Association and Beauchamp Financial Services.
Sally was educated at Coleshill Parochial School, Warwickshire, Coleshill Grammar School and King Edward's High School for Girls, Birmingham. She has an MA in English (Hons) from St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Hobbies: governor of King Edward's Schools Foundation in Birmingham; governor of King Edward's Grammar School, Handsworth; sport - especially racket sports; quizzes - semi-finalist on 'Mastermind'; also won 'Krypton Factor', 'Fifteen-To-One' and 'Sale of the Century' (youngest ever winner); drama - playwriting and acting in amateur theatricals; local history - won an award for a book on Georgian Warwickshire; music - play the harp; gardening - keen amateur naturalist.
Sally lives in Warwickshire, Birmingham and West London with husband, property developer John Grant, and teenage children, Roly and Madeline, both keen games-players, who also write (freelance) and model.
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Anna began her professional career as the editor of a business magazine in the late-1980s. She joined the BBC in 1992, working initially as a senior producer in the BBC's business department. During her time there she also edited and reported for 'Business Breakfast' and 'World Business Report' in London and New York.
She joined BBC World as a presenter in 1996 and switched to business presenting on BBC News 24 at its launch in 1997. In 1999, she presented 'Business Breakfast' and later that year reverted to a news presenting role on BBC News 24.
In 2005, Anna left the BBC and joined Sky News as a presenter.
Catherine started her professional career in the newsroom of Buckinghamshire based local radio station Mix 96 in 1994. She has also worked for Independent Radio News and News Direct radio in London.
Since c. 2005, Catherine has been a presenter on 'Five News'.
Joined BBC Sport as broadcast journalist for BBC News 24 in 1998. Moved to news presenting at BBC News 24 and BBC World in 1999. From October 2000, he appeared as presenter of BBC TV's 'Breakfast' and an occasional news reader on the 'One O'Clock News' and 'Six O'Clock News'. He subsequently became the second presenter of the 'One O'Clock News'.
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Gillian did a post graduate in journalism at City University. Her first broadcast job was with BBC 'North West Tonight' in 1991. She previously worked at BBC Pebble Mill whilst studying for her degree.
She later became a radio reporter and producer with Radio Merseyside. In 1998 she moved to London, and took up a post as news reader with BBC Radio 1.
By the late-1990s, Gillian was presenting on BBC 'Newsroom South East'. Subsequent roles included presenting on BBC 'Breakfast' and BBC News 24.
In 2005, Gillian moved to Sky News where she is a presenter.
Jackie is currently a freelance TV presenter, reporter and writer.
She can regularly be seen reporting for ITV News, and occasionally presenting the 'ITV Morning News'. She also presents bulletins for ITV London, including late-night updates and the early-morning GMTV summaries. She is also a regular presenter on Setanta Sports News.
Jackie was born in Coventry but brought up in Ireland. She studied zoology at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent several years writing articles for scientific journals and PR material for pharmaceutical companies, before moving to Jersey to take a job as a trainee reporter on the Jersey Evening Post. Two years later, she was offered a job at Jersey's Channel TV.
After six months, she moved back to the mainland and quickly landed a job as a reporter and presenter at ITV West in Bristol.
Between 1996 and 1998, Jackie worked her way up through the ranks of HTV, from crime reporter and co-presenter of a crime series and various documentaries, to regular presenter of the station's news programmes.
She then decided to go freelance, picking up reporting/presenting roles at ITV Central, Five and GMTV.
GMTV later offered Jackie a contract. During her time there, she covered a number of major news stories, including the Soham murders, the Washington sniper attacks, the 2004 Athens Olympics, the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
In January 2008, Jackie left GMTV to work as a freelance TV reporter/presenter.
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Scottish TV reporter and news presenter who joined the station straight after completing her degree in media studies and politics at Stirling and diploma in journalism at Strathclyde University.
Natasha has an Oxford degree in English and after leaving university worked as part of Neil Kinnock's advisory team. She joined Meridian TV in 1997 and after a spell reading the breakfast bulletins for the South East, rapidly moved to a main presenter's role on 'Meridian Tonight', the station's evening news programme from Southampton.
In 1999 she joined LNN to present 'London Tonight' alongside Alastair Stewart. She also presented the daytime version of the programme 'London Today' as well as LWT's live Sunday morning current affairs programme 'Seven Days'.
In 2000, Natasha moved to Sky to host 'Live At Five' for Sky News. The BBC was the next stop in 2002, where she replaced Sophie Raworth on 'Breakfast'.
In 2004, Natasha took part in the BBC 'Strictly Come Dancing' programme. She and dancing partner Brendan Cole went on to win the competition. She co-hosted the second series of the programme with Bruce Forsyth.
March 2005 and Natasha is named Newcaster Of The Year at the TRIC awards (Television and Radio Industry). In August 2005 she married investment banker Justin Bower.
Natasha moved to the BBC 'Six O'Clock News' in Autumn 2005 replacing Sophie Raworth who had gone on maternity leave. In spring 2006, Natasha was confirmed as a permanent presenter on the programme, following the announcement that Sophie Raworth was to move to the 'One O'Clock News' on her return from maternity leave, taking over from Anna Ford who retired from news presenting in April 2006.
Priya's first broadcasting job was as a reporter and news reader with Lincs FM. Six months later she moved to the BBC Asian Network in 2002 where she was the East Midlands reporter. She later became a regular presenter of BBC 'East Midlands Today' before moving to 'Five News' as a presenter in December 2005.Bernadette trained as a BBC reporter in 1988 and worked subsequently at BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Cornall and BBC Radio Ulster.
In 1990, she joined BBC 'Midlands Today' as a presenter.
She currently presents on BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester in addition to occasional appearances on 'Midlands Today'.
Rex was an ITN newscaster from October 1955 to January 1956. From 1956 to 1970, he was responsible for UNESCO's English radio and television programmes.Website
Reporter BBC TV's 'Panorama', 1958 - 1962 and presenter in 1982. Reporter, 'This Week', 1965 - 1968. ITN newscaster on lunchtime programme 'First Report', October 1972 until January 1976. In 1980 he both wrote and presented 'Ireland - A Television History'. Appeared briefly as one of the 'famous five' on TV-am 1983 - 1984. Appeared on seven election nights, 1959 - 1974 and in 1983.
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Ronan Kelly has worked for UTV on and off from the early-1980s, and was the first host of 'Six Tonight', from 1987 to 1988. He has also hosted a number of local series for UTV, including 'Ronan On The Road', 'Check It Out', and 'You're On'.
Ronan reported for the UTV religious affairs programme 'The Holy Ground'. He is married to BBC Northern Ireland news reader Donna Traynor.
Ronan has also been a presenter on Downtown Radio and U105.8.
Border Television news reporter and presenter in the 1980s, who went on to front nationally networked ITV programmes, including some time spent as a stand-in guest presenter on 'This Morning'.Reporter and presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' from 1987 until 1992.
Born in India, Kenneth was educated at Felsted School and Oxford, where he gained a degree in modern languages. He was a BBC Radio Home Service announcer, 1948 - 1959 and a BBC TV news reader, July 1954 until March 1961 and again from July 1969 until 22 December 1981. He was also a BBC TV in-vision announcer, 1960 - 1961.
Kenneth freelanced from 1961 - 1969 as a presenter: BBC TV children's 'Pit Your Wits', 1961 - 1963, 'Fascinating Facts', 1963 - 1964 and BBC regional TV's 'Town And Around' in 1969. He also appeared in a 'Dr Who' story as a news reader in 1966, and in the mid-1960s anchored Southern Television's nightly magazine 'Day By Day'. In December 1957 he became the first BBC TV news reader to be named, when his name was superimposed on to the screen. He also famously lost a tooth whilst reading the BBC Two news in July 1979.
Later, he presented Channel 4's 'Treasure Hunt', from 1982, and then retired to live on the Isle of Wight where he opened an art gallery, specialising in the work of local painters. He devoted much of his time to his favourite charities, music and cooking, as well as racing and the theatre.
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ITN newscaster 1959 - 1966 and reporter 1959 - 1961 including 'Roving Report' in 1961.Mary was born in 1956 in Clondalkin, Dublin. She was an announcer on RTÉ TV from 1978 until 1992, having worked on both of the station's TV channels. She moved to the news division, fronting news bulletins on TV and radio from 1992. In 1995 Mary presented the Eurovision Song Contest from Dublin. She went on to become involved in a number of TV productions, including her own Saturday night chat show, 'Kennedy' in 1997. From the late-1990s until 2004, Mary had been co-hosting the daytime TV programme, 'Open House'. She is now a presenter on the regional news programme, 'Nationwide'.
LWT announcer in the 1970s who also worked as a reporter and news reader for Southern TV in the 1970s. Sarah went on to become one of the presenters of the BBC's 'Sixty Minutes' news magazine, and, famously, LWT's 'Game For A Laugh'. Since then she has presented many television and radio programmes and now hangs out at BBC Radio 2.
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(Sir). ITN newscaster from April 1956 until 1958. Reporter, BBC TV's 'Panorama', 1960 - 1963, '24 Hours', 1969 - 1972, 'Tonight', 1976 - 1978 and ITV's 'This Week', 1958 - 1960.
He was also presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'The World At One', 1965 - 1966, BBC TV's 'Midweek', 1972 - 1975, 'Newsday', 1975 - 1976 and 'Did You See...?', 1980 - 1988.
He was also relief chairman of BBC TV's 'Question Time'.
Ludovic was knighted in 1994.
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Jo presents on BBC 'Look East'.Grampian Television 'North Tonight' reporter and occasional news reader.
Andy is a sports reporter and presenter for 'North East Tonight', the ITV 1 regional news programme in the Tyne Tees region. He can often be seen presenting weekend news bulletins. Andy has also reported for Tyne Tees' version of 'Soccer Night'.
Presenter on 'Central News' (East).
Sue was poached from BBC TV South West's 'Spotlight' news programme in the mid-1980s to co-host 'Today', TSW's flagship news programme, with Chris Rogers. Ironically, Chris left a few months later to anchor 'Spotlight', so the Beeb got its revenge! Shortly afterwards, 'Today' was relaunched again as 'TSW Today' with a new set and titles, and Sue became the main anchor, assisted by Dominic Heale at the news desk, and Pete Barraclough on sport.
Sue was visibly upset by the loss of the TSW franchise, and was quite emotional during the final minutes of the last 'TSW Today' programme on 31 December 1992. She bounced back, and a few months later could be found up the M5 in Bristol, co-hosting 'HTV News' with veteran newsman Bruce Hockin. Sue recently hosted HTV West's 'Gardening Calendar' and 'A Taste Of The West'.
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Relief ITN newscaster from July 1990.During the 1970s and 1980s, Allan was one of the main news readers on Independent Radio News; he also presented a range of programmes on LBC radio. In 1990, he joined BSB as a news presenter.
Following the closure of the BSB channels, Allan moved on and was appointed head of news at London radio station Melody FM in 1991.
He has also presented on 'The Channel 4 Daily' and for London Weekend Television.
In 1993, he moved to Sky News as a presenter. Allan is still with the channel and is one of their main presenters.
Allan is the managing director of Group K Broadcasting Ltd (link below), a consultancy specialising in media training.
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Jenny is a qualified teacher and indeed her first job was as a secondary school teacher in Northamptonshire.
She later moved to Prague to teach English there. Whilst there, she picked up some broadcast experience, presenting for Radio Free Europe.
On her return to the UK, she was a presenter and reporter for an Essex radio station before moving on to work as a news editor for radio companies in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
Prior to moving to Norfolk, Jenny spent time in Jersey, where she presented on ITV Channel's local news programme for two years.
Jenny is currently one of the BBC 'Look East' breakfast presenters although she also occasionally covers lunchtime bulletins.
Lucy is a presenter and reporter on 'Central News' (East edition).Tyne Tees TV news reporter and presenter, often found manning the newsdesk in the Teesside opt-out for the southern half of the region.Andy has been a reporter and occasional presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' since 1987.One of the original team of three presenters on BBC Scotland's regional news programme, 'Reporting Scotland'. Douglas was also a long-serving continuity announcer at Grampian TV.YTV news reporter and bulletin presenter who became one of the anchors of 'Calendar' (South) from Sheffield.Adrian Lane is Westcountry's reporter/news reader in the western Cornish sub-region.Kirsty started at the BBC as a graduate news trainee in 1985 after completing a degree in international relations at the London School of Economics and a postgrad MA in journalism from City University, London.
She then became a general news reporter in radio. In 1989, she took up a post in Budapest as stringer for the BBC World Service. In late-1991, she became a correspondent in the BBC Paris office.
C. 1994, Kirsty returned to London to take up a post as a reporter for 'Newsnight'. In summer 1995 she moved out of television to join the Sunday Times as their Paris correspondent. She remained there until 1998 when she returned to TV as Europe correspondent and presenter for 'Channel 4 News'.
In 2002, Kirsty moved to the BBC where she presented the news on BBC World and fronted the BBC Four news programme.
Reporter, BBC TV's 'Panorama' in the mid-1960s, and a national BBC TV news reader from June 1968 until December 1968. Reporter, '24 Hours' in 1969 and 'Nationwide', 1969 - 1972. Presenter, BBC TV's 'Pebble Mill At One' from 1972 until 1986, and 'Saturday Night At The Mill' from 1976 until 1981.
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Joined BBC staff in October 1955, providing sound effects for 'The Archers'. Radio announcer, 1959. Presenter, BBC Midlands 1959 - 1960 and 1964. BBC TV relief news reader, 1959 until June 1963. Later he was a commentator/producer for BBC Radio Birmingham and Radio WM.
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Heather was an announcer with Border from 1994 until the end of regular regional continuity in October 2002; this included in-vision continuity links. She has also voiced many programmes for Border, including 'Border Stories', 'Bordering On 40' and 'The Way We Were'. Heather is also a regular news reader, presenter and producer at the station.Wayne was one of the main 'Channel Report' anchors in the 1980s. He may be familiar to readers in their 30s as 'Johnny', one of the presenters of 1970s pre-school children's programme 'Pipkins' (thanks to Paul Durston for making this connection). You can find out more about 'Pipkins' at the Official Website.
Paul was an Anglia continuity announcer from 1987 to 1991; he launched the station's 'Through The Night' service, earning him the title 'Mr Midnight'. He also presented on Anglia's regional news programme.
Paul went on to become a big name in the world of satellite home shopping channels. He also presented for Friendly TV.
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Sue is a former BBC TV South West 'Spotlight' presenter (1970 - 1972) who found national fame as one of the regular hosts of 'Nationwide' for eleven years from 1972.
Born in Dudley in the West Midlands in July 1946, Sue started her career as a trainee journalist with the Western Mail and the South Wales Echo in Cardiff. She joined the BBC in 1970 and later presented the 'Nine O'Clock News' and the 'Six O'Clock News'.
She regularly presented programmes on BBC TV, and has stood in as presenter on 'Question Time' and 'Wogan', among many others.
In 1988, Sue took over as host of BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs'. In April 2006, she announced that she would be leaving the programme in August 2006.
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Eamonn was born in Delvin, Co Westmeath and was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel and University College Dublin. He was European correspondent with RTÉ News from the late-1970s until the late-1980s. In 1989 he became the main anchor on RTÉ TV's new weekday 'One O'Clock News' programme.
In Autumn 1990 he moved to anchor the 'Nine O'Clock News'. He later became one of the co-anchors on the main evening news programme, 'Six-One' and also presented the current affairs programme 'Prime Time'.
In 1999, Eamonn left the newsroom to take up a presenting job on RTÉ''s new classical music radio station Lyric FM.
Border TV presenter and then Tyne Tees TV news reporter and presenter, who now presents the BBC's 'Look North' from Newcastle.Central reporter and news reader in the East Midlands.Stephen is a news presenter for 'Anglia News' in the East of the region, covering breakfast and afternoon bulletins mainly; however, he also pops up regularly as a presenter on the main evening edition of 'Anglia Tonight'.Website
Steve was a reporter and presenter with BBC 'Midlands Today' from 1986 until 1999. He now works for Sky Sports on a freelance basis, as well as running his own broadcasting company.
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Jan Leeming announced for Westward Television in 1965 and stayed for about a year before pursuing her career on larger ITV stations, such as Granada, HTV West (news reader, 'Report West'), and then BBC News, where she was one of the main news readers in the early-1980s. She was also a presenter of BBC Children's TV's 'Tom Tom', 1970; BBC TV's 'Pebble Mill At One', 1976 - 1978 and a BBC Radio 2 announcer in 1980.
Jan was a BBC TV news reader from May 1980 until April 1987. She was on duty on Bank Holiday Monday, May 1980, when the longest ever news flash occurred when the SAS ended the Iranian Embassy siege. Famously, she carried on reading the news when a studio bulb broke shattering hot glass down onto her during the news summary within Grandstand in 1982. She was also a contributor to ITV's 'This Morning' in 1988 and 1990.
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Charlotte reports and presents for BBC North's 'Look North'.
Anne took over as Wendy Nelson's immediate replacement on 'Central News' from Birmingham. She went on to newscast for ITN (August 1983 until October 1990), and presented 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990. In more recent times she has presented on the BBC's Newcastle edition of 'Look North'.
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Began his career with BBC Northern Ireland in 1966, moving to HTV Wales as a reporter in 1968. He was an ITN reporter from 1970 - 1986 with newscasting duties in 1977 and from 1981 - September 1986. He defected to the BBC in October 1986 to present the 'One O'Clock News' and later moved to the 'Nine O'Clock News' and 'Six O' Clock News'.
He caused some controversy by calling for more 'good news' to be included in bulletins. He left the BBC news team in May 1999.
Martyn has also hosted quiz shows, such as BBC Two's 'The Day Today'. Other presenting roles include 'Songs Of Praise'.
Martyn returned to ITN for one night (21 September 2005), as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, to co-present the 'ITV Evening News'.
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Reporter and news bulletin presenter for Meridian in Southampton, who joined the station from Westcountry Television.BBC Radio Home Service announcer, 1932 - 1969. BBC TV news reader July 1954 until May 1957. He appeared as a news reader in a 1968 episode of 'Dad's Army' and as a radio announcer in Thames TV's 1978 series 'Edward And Mrs Simpson'. He died on 7 January 1981.
Mike started his career as a sports reporter with Mercia Sound in Coventry. In 1987 he moved to the BBC where he worked as a sports reporter and presenter for BBC 'Look East'.
By the mid-1990s he had moved to LNN's 'London Tonight'.
He subsequently rejoined the BBC 'Look East' team where he is now a senior broadcast journalist,
Mike also presents Sunday morning breakfast on BBC Radio Norfolk.
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Westcountry TV news reporter and bulletin presenter in the Cornish sub-region for several years from the station's on air date in 1993.
Former Anglia Television announcer (1973 to 1976), BBC TV East announcer and 'Look East' anchor who moved north to take up a continuity announcer's job at Tyne Tees Television in the mid-1980s. She left the company when it was taken over by Yorkshire Television in the early-1990s.
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(Now Verity Spencer). Verity was a continuity announcer and news reader with Anglia during the 1980s and early-1990s. She left Anglia after getting married, and spent four years in the Middle East presenting news programmes for both TV and radio.
After returning to the UK, Verity settled into a job with the then newly-formed BBC World Service Television News. After starting a family, she concentrated on voice-over work and reading psychology at degree level.
Started his television career as a cameraman and moved into continuity with TVS before joining Thames Television as a continuity announcer in the 1980s. He stayed until Carlton took over and was the only member of the Thames continuity team to move to the new station when it took over on January 1 1993. Mark was Carlton's senior announcer until October 2002 when the station's London identity was dropped. However, Mark continues to present weekend bulletins for Central News South - a role he has been performing since 1991. He has also presented the main early evening news programme during the week.
Mark spoke to TTVRP in January 2006: "Over the past three-and-a half-years I have had the opportunity of working on a number of projects at Central News. I was Assistant Producer on a few outside broadcasts including Central's pan-regional 'Britain On The Move' campaign and the Fairford Royal International Air Tattoo. More recently while our studio was being redesigned for the ITV rebranding, we took Central News outside and presented the programme from five of the region's hospitals. I helped produce this and was also the roving reporter each night taking on a variety of tasks, from sampling the hospital Christmas dinners to being a cleaner for the day and hospital porter. My skills were also put to the test one night when due to sickness with one of our directors, I ended up directing the outside broadcast. It was a great week and well received by the viewers. That together with some radio presenting and voice-over work, I have been a busy man since leaving Carlton."
Lynette Lithgow started her television career as an in-vision announcer at Granada Television. She then moved to the BBC in the East Midlands as a presenter in 1989 and became a national BBC TV news reader from February 1990 to October 1991, mostly on weekend bulletins and for BBC Two's 'News View'. She also presented the charity appeal programme 'Lifeline' in the late-1980s. She left to join BBC World as a news reader in 1991.
Lynette left journalism to take up an academic career and after completing a law degree at Oxford, she went on to take up a fellowship post at Harvard.
Lynette was murdered in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in December 2001.
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Presenter and reporter on Southern Television's 'Day By Day' (1980 - 1981) and later a reporter for TVS.Live from St Peter Port most nights, Su is Channel Television's Guernsey based reporter and presenter.One of the main anchors of 'Wales At Six' in the 1980s, who moved into television production later in the decade, and is now a producer for an independent production company. Liz does still appear on HTV from time-to-time - c.2001 she fronted a series of 'House To House' for the station.ITN newscaster, October 1955 until January 1956.Dan is a presenter on Sky Sports. Previously, he has worked as a presenter for Sky News and Channel 5 News.
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Since her broadcasting career started in the late-1980s, Sarah has worked for many national and local TV outlets in the UK. A lot of her work is done on a freelance basis.
Career highlights include: presenter/reporter, 'BBC Newsroom South East' (1991 - 2001); anchor, 'Meridian Tonight' (1998 - 2000); news reader, GMTV (2000/2001); anchor/business presenter/reporter, Sky News (2000/2002/2003/2006); business presenter/reporter, BBC News 24 (2001 - 2003).
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Tyne Tees TV news reporter and presenter, who moved to Yorkshire TV, where she is currently one of the regular reporter/presenters of the nightly news magazine 'Calendar'.Merryn Howe (nee Longfoot) replaced Kerry Swain as co-presenter of 'Today South West' soon after TSW took to the air. She 'partnered' Kenneth MacLeod on the programme until his retirement, and then continued with replacement John Underwood and then, briefly, John Doyle.
Merryn went on to present TSW's 'Consumer File' programme in the mid and late-1980s. After leaving TSW, she has popped up as a news presenter on regional magazine programmes across the country, notably as co-anchor of the BBC's 'North West Tonight' programme, from Manchester, in the mid to late-1990s.
STV reporter and news bulletin presenter, often found manning the early shift.
(MBE). Walter joined the BBC in London as a studio manager in 1958. After a year with the BBC in Edinburgh, he moved to Broadcasting House in Belfast, where, after a year, he became a staff announcer. Throughout the 1960s, Walter was the main television news presenter with BBC Northern Ireland. He also looked after the radio continuity operation and presented various radio programmes.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Walter also carried out television continuity duties with BBC Northern Ireland.
In 1978 he went freelance, presenting the magazine programme 'Day By Day'. In the late-1980s, he took up the afternoon slot on BBC Radio Ulster, presenting 'Love In The Afternoon'. He then became the presenter and producer on 'Love Forty'.
In 1998, he was awarded an MBE for his services to broadcasting.
Alex presents the BBC East regional news programme 'Look East'.
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Chris has a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. Although he went on to complete a teaching qualification, he opted to follow a career in broadcasting. Chris joined the BBC as a graduate journalist trainee in 1972 (Jeremy Paxman joined on the same day).
During the 1970s and a portion of the 1980s, he reported for radio and TV, spending a lot of his time in Northern Ireland during some of the worst days of the Troubles.
During the 1980s, Chris switched to presenting: presenter, BBC Radio 4's 'Today' in 1982 and from 1986 - 1991; presenter on the 'PM' programme in 1983 and from 1993; he was a BBC TV news reporter in 1983 and a relief news reader from August 1984 until October 1986 and from March 1989 until December 1997, and again in January 2000; he also read the news on BBC Two's 'Newsnight' from 1986 until 1989; relief presenter for BBC 'Breakfast News' in 1990.
In 2000, Chris joined BBC News 24 as a weekend presenter.
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'Scotland Today' presenter in the 1980s and 1990s.ITN newscaster in 1959.
Lyddon cut his teeth at HTV West in the early-1980s and returned to the company to co-host a relaunched 'HTV News' and then 'ITV West News' with Jenny Hull, after a national television career, spanning TV-am and Sky News.Tyne Tees TV news reporter and presenter, who fronted the 'Network North' Bilsdale transmitter local news opt-out in the mid-1990s. Jake has now moved to the BBC, where he is a reporter and presenter for BBC News 24.Maolra was a 'Nuacht TG 4' presenter in the 2000s and continues to present on an occasional basis. He now presents TG 4's current affairs series 'Fíor Scéal'.
Aengus has been a relief news presenter on RTÉ television since c. 1994; he also covers bulletins on RTÉ Radio 1. He originally presented the Irish language news programmes on RTÉ in the early-1990s.Main co-anchor of Grampian's 'North Tonight', and main presenter of the station's midweek current affairs show, 'Grampian Midweek' in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
Former news reporter John Mackay has been fronting 'Scotland Today' full-time since 1999, starting his presenting career as a stand-in for Shereen Nanjiani and Viv Lumsden.
BBC Scotland (1995 - present) and Grampian (1981 - 1995). Anne is the longest serving news and current affairs presenter in Scottish television. She started on 'North Tonight' with John Duncanson, moving to the opposition on 'Reporting Scotland' in 1995. She then went on to 'Westminster Live', 'Despatch Box' and Radio 4 in London. She is now a regular presenter on 'Newsnight Scotland' on BBC Two Scotland.Deborah is a long serving news and music presenter with the BBC World Service. Since the early-2000s, Deborah has been presenting overnight news programmes on BBC News 24 (simulcast on BBC World).First presenter of the South East edition of 'Coast To Coast' starting out from Southern's old Dover studios while they waited for the completion of the Maidstone building. Vyvyan's tenure at TVS was short-lived. She married Dominic Lyle, of Tate and Lyle fame, and moved over to print journalism.Keith was a presenter on the pre-runner to 'Look North' from 1960 until 1965.Norman MacLeod started his broadcasting career in BBC local radio and joined Grampian TV in 1987. Since then he has presented and reported for many Grampian news programmes including the main evening magazine 'North Tonight'. Kenneth MacLeod was 'Mr Westward', joining the company on a freelance basis in the early-1960s as alternating host (with Reginald Bosanquet and Barry Westwood) of the then three-day-a-week 'Westward Diary'. At the same time, busy Ken was juggling commitments to Associated Rediffusion in London and Granada in the north.
Ken liked Westward, and when 'Westward Diary' moved to five days a week, he stayed on as the main anchorman for the programme for the next 20 years. A consummate professional, Ken was a garrulous character with an affable but confident air that made presenting live television look like a piece of cake, despite the many technical problems that were inherent in any live, local television in the 1960s and 1970s.
Viewers were extremely fond of him, and he obviously loved the South West and its people. Ken stayed on as main presenter of 'Today South West' when TSW took over in January 1982, but moved from the role a couple of years later.
However, he remained on South West screens with his own popular archive programme, 'Looking Back With Kenneth MacLeod' which ran, on and off, until the TSW franchise ended in December 1992.
He was an enduring character, and was selected to co-host with Sue King the hour long final edition of 'TSW Today' on December 31 1992, despite the fact that he had not been a regular presenter of the flagship news programme for around 8 years of the 11 years that TSW was on the air.
Kenneth died on January 31 2003, aged 75 - he is still fondly remembered by many South West television viewers, and will be for many years to come.
Courtnay is a presenter on Border TV's 'Lookaround'.Penny joined the industry in America in 1993, working in production at ABC and NECN in Boston, Massachusetts and at Fox in Oakland, California.
On her return to the UK, she joined Border TV, where she reported, presented and produced on the 'Lookaround' programme.
In 1998, she joined BBC Scotland, where she has become a regular face as a presenter on 'Reporting Scotland'. During her time at BBC Scotland, she also presented the late night 'Newsline' programme on BBC Choice Scotland.
Penny has also worked as a producer and reporter for BBC News 24.
Long serving Tyne Tees Television news reporter and newscaster.Now the undisputed Emperor of Daytime Television (although he left 'This Morning' (ITV) to front an evening programme for Channel 4), Richard Madeley cut his television teeth at Border TV and then Yorkshire Television as a reporter and presenter for 'Calendar'. He left YTV to join Granada Television's local news programme, 'Granada Reports', as a news reader and reporter, where he met fellow reporter/presenter and his future wife, Judy Finnigan. The couple were soon catapaulted to national fame when Granada picked them to front its new morning magazine show, 'This Morning' in 1988, originally broadcast from Liverpool's Albert Dock, but from 1996, from London.Tracey joined UTV in April 1997 as a reporter. Since c. 2001, she has been a regular presenter on news bulletins.Channel TV Guernsey reporter and presenter.Sally's journalistic career began in newspapers with The Scotsman and Sunday Standard.
She joined BBC Scotland as a current affairs presenter. London then beckoned, where she became one of the main presenters on 'Nationwide' successor, 'Sixty Minutes'.
In October 1986, she became one of the regular presenters on BBC One's 'Breakfast Time', later 'Breakfast News'. In the mid-1990s, she moved back to BBC Scotland where she became a regular presenter on 'Reporting Scotland'.
Since then, she has been associated with many TV productions - for BBC Network and BBC Scotland. Among them: 'Dunblane: A Community Remembers' (1996; she won a Scottish Bafta for her commentary on this programme); 'Diana: My Sister the Princess' (1998; awarded an RTS award for her interview with Earl Spencer); General Elections (1997, 2001, 2005); the funeral of Princess Diana; 'Songs Of Praise'.
Since late-2005, Sally has been the Friday presenter on BBC Two's 'Daily Politics'.
Colette is a reporter for BBC Northern Ireland, who occasionally fronted the regional news programme 'Newsline' during the period late-1990s - 2001.
(Real name Michael Manning). Michael was a BBC Radio 4 announcer from 1973 to 1974. During 1975, he worked as a news reader/announcer at the BBC World Service. He later moved to BBC Bristol as a radio/TV announcer followed by spells in London, Southampton, Manchester and Plymouth. From 1980 until 1984, he was a BBC TV network announcer.
Michael died tragically young in a car accident on April 18 1984.
In September 2010, Jeff Coote, a former colleague of Mike's, contacted us: "Although it is very difficult for me to write this, I think that it is important to record the information once and for all so that people know and understand what happened on that sad day. Mike was on his way from his flat in Heather Court, Montpelier Terrace to spend a couple of days with me and my wife in Ruislip when he had the accident. His friend Ross (he was a VT editor on 'BBC Breakfast Time') was driving them in his Mini on the A23 from Brighton. An old man had stopped in a lay-by (just north of the junction with the A281) intending to cross the dual carriageway to visit a friend. He started to cross in front of an articulated lorry just as Ross and Mike were overtaking. Their car was pushed across the central reservation (nothing more than a raised kerb in those days) and hit a car coming in the opposite direction (I met the driver at the inquest, who had suffered serious permanent injuries but survived). Apparently Ross fell across Mike's lap (probably died on impact) which caused him to be extremely upset. According to people who helped at the scene of the accident, Mike was sitting on the grass bank and talking while waiting for the ambulance.
"I still don't know why he died and there seemed to be some confusion about where he was taken after the accident as his mother wasn't sure which hospital to go to. My wife and I visited her in Brighton for some years afterwards but I don’t think she ever really recovered from the loss. I never knew anything about Mike’s father.
"Mike was going to be the godfather to my eldest son Christopher.
"Together, Mike and I tried to move BBC continuity from the staid Radio 4-ish style (long periods - i.e., more than half a second - of silence and black) of presentation to something (cuts between slides and symbols and programmes with no pauses but still with some style) which held the viewers attention, to try to match the programmes that Michael Grade was having enormous success (and viewing figures) with at the time. By the time Mike died, I think we had quite some success with the support of the more ambitious network editors, such as Martin Everard, and BBC One has never been the same since."
Eddie was a presenter on BBC 'Reporting Scotland' in the early-1990s. He moved to BBC Radio 5 Live at its launch in 1990. He is now a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, including the 'PM' programme.
He also occasionally presented 'Newsnight' (2004 - 2005).
Carol underwent training in journalism in Darlington. Her career in journalism began in the newspaper industry; in 1989 she was appointed chief reporter at the Hartlepool Mail. She later entered the world of broadcasting and has worked for BBC Radio Cumbria, Border Television and Tyne Tees Television.
In the late-1990s she got a job as presenter with BBC 'Look North' at BBC North East/Cumbria.
One of the main co-presenters of 'Central News' in the West Midlands, and also a regular weekend news reader for Sky News.Before joining UTV as a continuity announcer and newsreader in 2007, Marc worked at Belfast-based radio station, Citybeat. He was a newsreader there for eight years, and also a presenter and reporter for its evening news programme, 'Belfast Tonight', from 2004 to 2007.
Marc was awarded Radio News Broadcaster of the Year at the 2007 CIPR Press and Broadcast Awards.
Carole is a former Sky News presenter. She is now a Sunday Mirror columnist.
(Allada Barbara Grenville-Wells). Barbara was the first female to present the news on a national television service in the UK. She was an ITN newscaster from September 23 1955 - combining this with general reporting duties - until 1957. She continued working at ITN until her retirement in its 25th anniversary year in 1980. She died on August 25 1998.
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Granada TV's chief sportscaster on 'Granada Reports' and also presenter of 'Soccer Sunday' on Granada and neighbouring Border Television. Alistair also presented one season of HTV Wales' Sunday soccer programme in the mid-1990s.
Alistair is believed to have left Granada in 2006.
Chris was one of the original team of presenters with Sky News in 1989. He was sacked from the company in March 1993 following a newsroom brawl with another Sky News presenter, Scott Chisholm. He claimed that he had recieved no warnings, either verbal or written from Sky and subsequently instructed his solicitors to sue Sky for damages arising from his dismissal.
Chris later worked for Independent Radio News.
One of the original team of three presenters on BBC Scotland's regional news programme, 'Reporting Scotland'. Mary presented on the programme from its launch in 1968 until the late-1980s.
Sandi was a presenter on BBC South West's 'Spotlight' in the mid-1980s and BBC 'Points West' in the late-1980s. She was also a relief BBC TV news reader on 'News After Noon' from May 1983 until July 1983 and again from April 1984 until September 1984.
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Claire is a reporter for BBC News. She also presents occasionally on the BBC News Channel.
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BBC Radio announcer, 1934 - 1939 and 1945 - 1957. BBC TV news reader, July 1954 until October 1955. He died on 1 April 1960, aged 64.
Ian was a BBC 'Look East' presenter from 1973 until 1983.
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James graduated from Leeds University in 1983, with an Honours degree in international history and politics. He joined the ITN Graduate Training Scheme in 1983. He has been with the company ever since. Among the positions he has held at ITN: in 1986, he became a general reporter; Tokyo correspondent of ITN's World News on Channel 4's first early morning service, 'Channel 4 Daily' (1989); North of England correspondent (1991); Moscow correspondent (1991 - 1993); diplomatic editor (1993 - 1996); Washington correspondent (1997 - 2002).
James is currently ITN's senior correspondent and has made regular appearances in the news presenters chair on ITV 1 since 2002.
Rob was a continuity director/announcer with BBC Scotland from 1995 - July 2008, covering TV and radio. He was also involved in managing the transition from analogue to digital transmission systems. Currently, Rob is a news presenter and reporter for BBC Scotland TV and radio.
He has also worked as a freelance reporter at Westsound FM and presented for QFM. Other posts include: reporter for Stirling Sports Agency, Glasgow; reporter for Slough, Windsor and Eton Observer; reporter/financial editor for Drapers Record business-to-business magazine.
Shelagh was a regular presenter of 'Northern Life' and Tyne Tees news bulletins until she moved into production in the late-1980s.