British and Irish TV talent
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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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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.
'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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The main female co-anchor of ATV's main evening news programme, 'ATV Today', in the 1970s.Co-presenter of 'ATV Today' and then 'Central News' with Bob Warman. Wendy had left ATV's successor, Central, by the mid-1980s.
ATV and then Central's chief sportscaster who is best known nationally for fronting many ITV Sport productions.
His only permanent work in front of camera these days is interviewing players after football matches for the ITV network. He is more often a sports producer and has produced various sports programmes, both nationally and for the Central region. Gary was a presenter at Talk Radio and it's successor, Talk Sport, where he remained until c. January 2002. Gary also plays cricket for the MCC.
Gary travelled to Japan and South Korea for the 2002 World Cup, where he was responsible for giving daily reports from the England camp on ITV and for doing some of the post match interviews.
Gary was also responsible for overseeing sports programming on Carlton. He is a senior figure at ITV Sport.
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ATV sports presenter who was the first anchor for 'Central News' in the East Midlands. He joined TV-am's sports department in 1983, but was soon promoted to the main presenter of 'Good Morning Britain' when the 'famous five' presenter owners of the station were culled, or jumped ship, in a bitter boardroom battle early in the station's tumultuous history. Nick was soon joined on the couch by former Midlands colleague Anne Diamond, and together the two gelled, helping to transform the fortunes of the troubled breakfast contractor.
The pair later went on to their own daytime BBC show, 'Good Morning With Anne And Nick' but the programme was axed after a couple of seasons because it failed to dent the ratings of ITV's 'This Morning'. After a short spell fronting LWT's '6 O'Clock Live', Nick is now back in the Midlands, anchoring 'Midlands Today'.
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Gwyn was a presenter on 'ATV Today' in the 1970s and then BBC 'Points West'. He later moved to the BBC at Pebble Mill in Birmingham where he was a network radio producer.
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Chris Tarrant joined ATV as a junior news reporter in the early-1970s, but says that he soon discovered that hard news was not his cup of tea. Instead, he took on the mantle of action man for 'ATV Today' and got involved in a hands-on way with scores of wacky stories. He specialised in light-hearted and 'zany' items with fellow ATV partner in crime John Swallow and together managed to hunt down a huge number of the Midlands' eccentrics for the entertainment of ATV viewers.
This slapstick approach to news prepared him well for one of his best remembered television roles, as presenter of ATV's Saturday morning kids' show 'Tiswas', which, at first, ran for several years in the Midlands region before being nationally networked in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Chris and his team went on to produce an 'adult' version of the programme for ATV's successors, Central Television, but the programme was panned by the critics and failed to attract sufficient viewers, leading to it being dropped from the schedules.
For ATV, Chris also narrated the respected schools' programme, 'Stop, Look, Listen' in the 1970s.
He went on to become Britain's highest earning radio DJ on London's Capital Radio, and also a presenter of TV-am's 'Good Morning Britain', hosting the summer roadshows. Chris presented several national programmes for ITV, including 'Tarrant On TV' before finding his niche as host of the extremely popular 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'.
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Bob started his career as a reporter with ATV in the early-1970s, but left to join Yorkshire Television's news department where he became the first ever breakfast television presenter when the company experimented with 'Good Morning Calendar' in the mid-1970s.
Bob returned to ATV to anchor 'ATV Today' in the late-1970s, co-hosting the programme with Wendy Nelson and Anne Diamond. He moved over to Central TV in 1982 to present 'Central News' in the West Midlands with Wendy Nelson, and is still there today.
