British and Irish TV talent
Sky Sport Presenters
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TSW's head of sport, who presented the sports segment on TSW's evening news magazine programmes, and also fronted TSW 'Newsport' on a Saturday afternoon. Pete was also a regular presenter on DevonAir Radio. He is now a regular presenter on Sky Sports.
Sports reporter with Southern Television (1974 - 1981) who moved over to TVS. He became the main sportscaster on the station when previous incumbent Fred Dineage was elevated to main anchor of the South edition of 'Coast To Coast' around 1984. David is now a presenter with Sky Sports, which he joined in 1993 after a spell as a freelance presenter for ITN, Channel 4 and Meridian Broadcasting.
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Ian is a presenter on Sky Sports. Previously, he presented on 'East Midlands Today',
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Andrew is a former Sky Sports presenter. He currently presents on GMTV.
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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).
Attachment as BBC TV announcer in 1980, mainly heard on BBC Two. Sports presenter BBC Radio 4's 'Today' in 1985 - TBC and BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time', 1985 - 1986. Presenter on LWT's 'Friday Now' in 1988 and a reporter on 'Six O'Clock Live', 1989. Currently presents cricket coverage for Sky Sports.
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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'.
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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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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(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.
(OBE). Jimmy is a former Brentford (1949 - 1953) and Fulham footballer (1953 - 1961) and later manager at Coventry City (1961 - 1967). He famously campaigned, as PFA Chairman in 1957, to have the football league's £20 maximum wage scrapped.
He moved into broadcasting, first as technical advisor on BBC drama 'United!' (1965 - 1967) and then became head of sport at LWT from 1967 - 1972. He also fronted their 1970 World Cup coverage which, at his suggestion, used the first panel of football pundits. He was briefly LWT's deputy controller of programmes, before joining the BBC in 1973 to present 'Match Of The Day'.
He made over 600 appearances, becoming a TV icon, instantly recognisable and often caricatured for his long chin and distinctive beard. As a presenter or analyst, he worked on every major international football championship from 1966 - 1998.
In 1999, he moved to Sky Sports to present 'Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement', a weekly discussion show between himself and three football journalists conducted over a Sunday breakfast.
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Chris was educated at Tonbridge School and Oxford University. He played football for QPR and Aldershot FC. His media career began with Sky Sports in 1994. He was later involved with Channel One, GMTV, Meridian and Channel 5.
In 1999, he joined the BBC and became a familiar face on BBC News 24 where he was a sports presenter. In October 2005, he was announced as the new main sports presenter for BBC 'Breakfast', replacing Rob Bonnet.
During his time with the BBC, Chris has also reported for 'Grandstand' and 'Football Focus'.
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.
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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Bill is a presenter with Sky Sports News.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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Nick's broadcasting life began with Pennine News and Sport. After four years there he moved to Yorkshire TV as a news reporter and presenter.
In January 1996 he joined Sky as a news producer. However, since December 1996, he has been presenting on Sky Sports News.
He's currently also a regular face on 'Five News'.
Alex is a presenter on Sky Sports News.
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Clare is a reporter and presenter with Sky Sports.
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Chris was brought up in Sydney. He became a Bachelor of commerce, majoring in marketing.
Chris has been a presenter with Sky Sports since February 1999. He specialises in Rugby League.
He presents the Australian Rugby League coverage and also fronts the midweek magazine shown 'Boots 'N' All', some internationals and the State of Origin games.
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.
Co-anchor of STV's 'Scotsport' in the mid and late-1980s and early-1990s. Jim has also fronted Scottish football shows on Sky Sports.
