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ITV 1 - Wales Presenters
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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.
Long serving ATV Network and Central TV in-vision continuity announcer, who is now a regular regional weather presenter on ITV 1 Central and ITV 1 Wales. Su also freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for Central after it became part of the Carlton group in the late-1990s and into 2000/2001. Sue also did relief announcing on Southern Television in the 1970s.Weather and travel presenter for Central Television, and later a regular weather presenter on HTV West and HTV Wales.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.
Weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales until January 2002, who now co-presents the breakfast show on South Wales' Red Dragon Radio. 
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.HTV 'Wales At Six' mainstay in the early-1980s, with Liz Lloyd Griffiths.
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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Sam is a sports presenter for ITV Wales' 'Wales Tonight'.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.
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.
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).
Current co-anchor of ITV Wales' 'Wales Tonight'. Lucy also presents the company's travel series 'Away Days'. Born in Cardiff, she joined HTV in 1995 and soon after began reporting and presenting on the main flagship news programme.Nick joined HTV as a press officer in 1977. By the early-1980s he was on screen as a reporter and presenter. Since the mid-1990s, he has been business editor with ITV Wales News.Long serving HTV Wales news anchorman in the 1980s and early-1990s, who moved into corporate communications in 1994. After a period as broadcast manager, then head of business relations, for the private healthcare company, BUPA, in 1999 Alan set up his own company based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
AR Communications handles public relations, video production and media training for a range of clients. For more details you can visit his firm's website.
HTV West and Thames TV continuity announcer who moved to the HTV weather department when in-vision announcing was axed in 1993. Lorna Stevens was regularly seen as a weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales, but recently left when weather presentation was centralised in Birmingham. Lorna is also believed to have announced for HTV Wales.
A former professional model who worked with The Bluebell Girls first in Barcelona, Spain, and then in Paris, she started her broadcasting career on her return the UK with local ILR station Radio 210 in the Thames Valley. She went on to work as an announcer for BBC Radio 4 and was an announcer on BBC TV from 1984 to 1986, before embarking on a career as a freelance announcer/presenter for several ITV companies and also on BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting). Lorna also worked as an announcer on Westcountry Television in Plymouth for around 18 months from 1993 with colleague Peter Griffin.
Long serving HTV Wales presenter, who has fronted 'Report Wales' and 'Y Dydd', and made a name for himself as an HTV and ITV rugby commentator.
He regularly presented the sports segment on HTV's 'Wales At Six' news programme in the 1980s and 1990s, and produced the company's 'Front Row' Rugby programme. In 2002 he became HTV Wales' main sports commentator.
Yorkshire TV, Tyne Tees TV and then HTV Wales news presenter and reporter since 1988, who was found dead in January 2001 on a beach near his home. An inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death.
HTV Wales reported the sad news in this way:
"The death of popular HTV presenter Huw Weekes shocked and saddened people all across Wales. Hundreds of tributes poured in to the HTV newsroom from viewers, colleagues and politicians. Many people said that although they had never met him, they felt as though they had lost a good friend. It is clear from all the messages that Huw will be remembered with great respect and affection. For the last thirteen years he was one of the most popular faces on HTV. He loved his job and it was obvious to the viewers, as was his wonderful sense of humour.
HTV's controller, Elis Owen, described Huw as a cornerstone of HTV. 'He was an excellent journalist...one of the few journalists who could convey serious presentational style with a sense of humour.'
He was one of the most experienced television journalists in the country. He began his career on local newspapers but his talent was soon spotted and he became a regular face on Yorkshire Television, reporting on the miners' strike. In 1988 Huw made the move back home to Wales and joined HTV. It was here that he really showed the range of his talents, from being anchorman on the station's nightly news programme to compiling his famously off-the-wall reports on the funny side of life. He was a consummate professional to the end. His last broadcast was on the day he died.
First Secretary, Rhodri Morgan, was among the many who paid tribute to him, saying he was deeply sorry at the loss of a friend. The greatest passion of Huw's life was his family. On Saturday afternoons you could often find him with his children on the terraces at his beloved Cardiff City. His brother Gareth described him as a wonderful family man and a model father. He was, he said, a loving person and a marvellously entertaining companion. He will be terribly missed by all those who knew him.
Huw, who was 43, was was found dead on a beach near his home in Llantwit Major on January 17. He had recently returned to work after being ill with depression. He leaves a wife and three children. Our thoughts are with them."
Since January 2004, Jonathan has worked as a news presenter for the BBC World Service. He has regularly presented the 'BBC World News', 'The African News' and programmes such as 'From Our Own Correspondent'.
Jonathan started in television in the early-1990s, working for the PBS station in Seattle (KCTS Television), presenting programmes and documentaries; he was also the main promotional voice of the station. After training as a news writer at Worldwide Television News, Jonathan presented various WTN documentaries, including the environmental series 'Earthfile' and a five hour programme about Nigeria.
For c. six years, Jonathan worked for ITV. Most of his time there was spent at HTV West as a news presenter and announcer (1994 - 1998). He presented the channel's lunchtime news, morning bulletins and the popular late news programme at 10.30pm.
Jonathan presented the weather for Meridian (1992 - 1993); he was also an announcer there and at HTV Wales (1993). He also presented on the Sky News overnight service for a period.
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An early career as a drama teacher and then a radio announcer for BBC Wales stood Dilwyn Young-Jones in good stead for a move to television in the early-1980s when he joined HTV Wales as a continuity announcer.
He has also presented several children's programmes and in 1995 became HTV Wales' main weatherman. Dilwyn left weather presentation in January 2002 when presentation for this was moved to Birmingham, but is still heard today on HTV Wales continuity duty as a freelance announcer.
