British and Irish TV talent
Channel 4 Presenters
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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'.
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.
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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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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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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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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Danny's career began with BBC Northern Ireland where he worked as a research/production assistant on BBC Radio Ulster. He became one of the presenters on the newly launched BBC Radio 5 in 1991. After a short period working as a presenter for Radio Napa in Cyprus he moved to London to work for BBC Television News.
In 1994 Danny started work with BBC Radio 1 as a trainee research/production assistant. Danny's involvement with BBC Radio 1 continued until 2006; during his time there, he performed various roles, including broadcast assistant, producer and voice-over artist.
During his career, Danny has also presented various programmes for Liberty Radio, Thames Radio, FLR and The Sun Live.
In September 2005, Danny joined Channel 4 Television as an announcer. He can be heard on Channel 4, E4 and More4.
(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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(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.
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'.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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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.
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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One of the main anchors of STV's 'Scotland Today' in the 1980s who went on to front 'Channel 4 News' and other current affairs programmes for Channel 4.Sally joined BBC Scotland in 1992 when the production values of the breakfast bulletins were raised considerably. Sally made a name for herself as STV's first woman sports presenter. She later worked as a presenter for Radio Scotland and read the sports news on the 'Channel 4 Daily'.
Dermot was a presenter on Channel 4's 'Business Daily' and 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990.
ITN newscaster from February 1992 until 2002. Presenter on Carlton TV's 'The Big Story', 1993 until 1997.
He joined BBC TV's 'Breakfast' in September 2002.
Bridgit's first broadcasting experience was as a producer on 'The Big Breakfast News' in 1997. Since 1999, Bridgit has presented various ITN productions, including Channel 5 news summaries, Channel 4 political programme 'Powerhouse', the ITN News Channel and 'Channel 4 News', where she remains a regular presenter.
In 1981 he switched to TV reporting from newspapers and joined the BBC in the North East of England covering industrial stories for regional and national programmes.
He joined ITN in 1984 as 'Channel 4 News' business and economics correspondent. Later, he was royal correspondent, 1993 - 2000, and later special correspondent for ITN's news service on ITV. He was one of the original presenters of Channel 4's daytime political series, 'The Parliament Programme', in the late-1980s.
He began newscasting for ITN from 1986 including ITN's 'Weekend News' on ITV, 'Channel 4 News' and 'News At Ten'. He's now one of the main presenters of ITV's 'Lunchtime News'.
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Sarah joined BBC Scotland as a graduate trainee in 1989. She then moved to Belfast where she worked for BBC Northern Ireland. Back to London a year later in 1991 where she was an assistant producer on youth programmes such as 'Rough Guide', 'Reportage' and 'Rapido'. By 1993, Sarah had moved into current affairs, working initially on 'Public Eye' and 'Here And Now' before taking up a position as producer on 'Newsnight' in 1994.
In 1997, she moved to '5 News' where she was a reporter. She joined 'Channel 4 News' in 1998 as their Scotland correspondent. A few years later and Sarah was presenting 'Channel 4 News' on a regular basis.
In October 2005, Sarah became the main anchor of 'More4 News'.
Jon's broadcasting career started off in local radio. He joined ITN in 1976. He was their Washington correspondent from 1984 and in 1986 he appointed diplomatic editor. Jon anchored ITN's General Election programme in 1992.
Jon is best known as the main anchor on 'Channel 4 News'. He joined the programme in April 1989 and within a matter of months he became its full-time presenter.
During his time with ITN, Jon has reported on many major news events both from the studio and on the ground.
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Andy Steggall joined TVS in the mid-1980s as a Southampton based sports reporter and presenter, and later co-presented 'Ski Tips' with Liz Wickham.
Andy also worked for the 'Channel 4 Daily' and moved from TVS to GMTV as their sports presenter. He then moved on to Meridian in 1994. Andy now presents 'Meridian Tonight' sport, and anchors the main programme when Fred Dinenage is away. He has been a BT sports journalism award winner five times in seven years and was nominated for Royal Television Society awards in 2002 as a presenter and documentary maker.
Alastair's TV career began in 1976 with Southern Television, where he was a presenter and reporter.
He joined ITN in 1980 as industrial correspondent and moved into newscasting in 1981. He has presented virtually every ITV news programme at some point during his career.
Alastair was a presenter and reporter with 'Channel 4 News' in its early days. From 1983 he became involved in ITN's annual budget coverage programme for ITV; he was anchoring the programme from 1988. He co-anchored ITN's 1987, 1992 and 1997 General Election programmes. In 1986 he presented the 'ITN News At 5.40' on ITV. He had progressed to 'News At Ten' by 1989.
In 1993 Alastair became a regular presenter on 'London Tonight'; he is still with the programme at present.
In 1995 he presented 'Alastair Stewart's Sunday' on BBC Radio 5 Live. He later moved to GMTV where he hosted 'Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme'; that programme continued until July 2001.
Alastair moved back to ITV News in 2003 to present coverage of the Iraq War on the ITV News Channel. He remained a regular face on the ITV News Channel until its closure in December 2005.
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Alex worked in the news department at BBC Northern Ireland, serving both the TV and radio operation there. By the mid-1990s, Alex had moved to 'Channel 4 News' where he became a regular presenter. He is also the programme's chief news correspondent.
Alex won a Royal Television Society award in 1997 for his investigations into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. He has also written books about India and the Gulf War.
John is a freelance sports producer/presenter/commentator/reporter, and has a long and distinguished career working (predominantly) in football. He has presented and produced events such as the Hong Kong Soccer Sevens for Sky and Channel 4, as well as Masters Football for Channel 4.
He has also worked on a number of major events such as Euro 2004, Euro 2008, the World Cup finals, English Premier League, Champions League and Serie A.
