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Long serving Channel Television presenter and reporter from the 1960s and 1970s, known for his trademark bow ties.Channel Television reporter and presenter, and also programme director and news editor. Sadly, he died recently.Reporter and co-anchor on Channel TV's main evening news magazine programme, 'Channel Report'.Sarah is a presenter with Channel Television.Reporter and presenter for Channel TV. Former main anchor of 'Channel Report' until summer 2002.Stephanie is a presenter with Channel Television.Regular weather presenter on Channel Television.Murray is a presenter with Channel Television.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.
Channel Television reporter, presenter and news bulletin presenter.Angela was a regular presenter of Channel TV's former 'Telejournal' French language topicality programme.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.
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.
Rebecca is a presenter with Channel Television.
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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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.
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.Live from St Peter Port most nights, Su is Channel Television's Guernsey based reporter and presenter.Channel TV Guernsey reporter and presenter.Started her TV career as a reporter and presenter for Channel Television. Relief presenter, BBC Two's 'Newsnight' in 1998. Presenter, BBC TV's 'Breakfast' in October 2000. Occasional BBC TV news reader on weekend editions of the 'Ten O'Clock News' in February, April and August 2001. Recently, presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Hard Talk' on BBC News 24.Kristina Moore is Channel Television's main news anchor and political correspondent. After starting her journalistic career in local radio, she moved to Channel TV to get television experience and, after two years, moved to Nottingham to work for Carlton Central. Kristina moved back to Jersey in 2002 and also worked for the BBC before re-joining Channel.Former news reader on BBC Radio 4 who once gave up the rat race to train as a thatcher. Patrick joined Channel Television in autumn 2004 as its main news anchor. He remained with the station for just five months and handed in his notice after two months. Patrick has since penned an entertaining account of his time at Channel TV for The Times. Reporter and presenter on Channel TV and up to 2002 the main anchor of Channel Television's 'Channel Report'.Kevin started his career as a traffic news broadcaster for AA Roadwatch in Cardiff, and was head-hunted by BBC TV Wales as a news presenter. He later moved to HTV Wales as one of several main presenters for the local news programme there.
After moving across the Severn to Bristol, he stayed with HTV West's 'HTV News' for five years, but the programme changed its presenter line-up in autumn 2001. He went on to become a regular presenter for HTV West's 'Out of Order' consumer programme, and also presented news bulletins on Sky News and Meridian, as well as hosting his own Saturday morning show on Somerset's Orchard FM.
In August 2002, Kevin Owen moved to Jersey based Channel Television as one of the main anchors of the nightly 'Channel Report' programme.
Kevin is currently a presenter with news channel Russia Today.
Career outline:
• BBC 'Wales Today' - presenter (1988 -1995).
• BBC Radio Wales - breakfast (1988 - 1995).
• HTV 'Wales Tonight' - co-presenter (1995 - 1996).
• Soundwave (Swansea) (1995 - 1996).
• HTV 'West Tonight' - co-presenter (1996 - 2001).
• Swansea Sound (1996 - 1997).
• Orchard FM (Taunton) (1996 - 2001).
• Sky News - presenter (2001 - 2002).
• 'Channel Report' - co-presenter (2002 - 2004).
• Sky News - presenter (2003 - 2005).
• BBC World Service 'World Briefing' (2004 - 2006).
• RT (Moscow) - anchor (2005 - present).
Charles was a continuity announcer and news presenter at Channel Television. He also presented the in-vision children's links, with Oscar the Puffin (1988 - 1989).
Charles is now a Jersey lawyer, working in-house for a plc. He was educated at Middlesex University and College of Law London. He is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre.
ITV's longest serving station mascot/birthday greetings related puppet. Oscar Grosnez Corbiere Claude Puffin was born on the tiny island of Burhou, so legend has it, and shortly afterwards shot to stardom on Channel Television, where he has hosted Puffin's Pla(i)ce since the station first started broadcasting in 1962.
Puffin gets a huge sack full of mail each week, and his spot has moved with the times over the years, from relatively motionless sidekick to the duty announcer in the early days to the undoubted star of today's show.
Channel Television weather presenter in the early-1990s.Regular presenter of 'Channel Report', on Channel Television, in the early and 1990s, who moved to Central Television in Abingdon, Berkshire, where she is now one of the main presenters on 'Central News' (South).
Natalie joined Channel in 2001 as a production assistant, having studied newspaper journalism with English at the University of Central Lancashire. She quickly took on further producing roles, before becoming a reporter and presenter on 'Channel Report'.Joined the Channel team in February 2003. Tessa is a reporter and presenter, based in the Guernsey newsroom. She previously worked at LNN as a documentary researcher.
