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Your favourite news presenters - past and present

Who get your seal of approval? (September 2013)

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SO
Steven O
If we can include regional presenters:

Mike Neville The undisputed king of news in the North East and Cumbria, and the only regional newsreader to have been Gotcha'd by Noel Edmonds. When he retired in 2006 it was the main news story on both North East Tonight and Look North.

Richard Whiteley Better-known to most of us on here as Countdown's original front man, but also a respected newsman in his own right.

Eric Wallace The long-time anchor of Border TV's Lookaround who continued to make guest appearances after his retirement in 1998 and whose untimely death from cancer in 2004 was mourned both throughout the Borders and beyond.
BR
Brekkie
Present - Julie Etchingham, Alastair Stewart, Jon Snow
Past - Kirsty Young, Michael Buerk

Interesting to see Trevor McDonald get so many mentions - always thought he was considered somewhat over rated here.
MD
mdtauk
Michael Burke mostly for 999
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Past
- Allan King - Possibly my all time favourite, great decorum to him and had a certain gravitas when on air
- Geraint Vincent - always liked Geraint as a newsreader, great reporter too but I preferred him as a newsreader
- Alastair Burnet - didn't really get to see much of Alastair but from videos and archive I've seen I can understand how he was held in such high regard
- Julian Manyon - a cheeky bonus one, Julian Manyon was a correspondent rather than a presenter but I felt he deserved a mention, a remarkable foreign correspondent with an illustrious career

Present
- Alastair Stewart - great diction and authority in his voice, rarely slips up and takes his job very seriously
- Jon Sopel - great all round newscaster, somebody the viewer warms to, my personal highlight was his coverage of the Raoul Moat manhunt
- Jeremy Thompson - just everything you would look for in a newsreader
BK
bkman1990
This is my list from the UK & Ireland

Past

Sir Trevor McDonald - ITN News At Ten
Ken Hammond - RTE News (Ireland)
Chris Roberts - Sky
Michael Murphy - RTE News (Ireland)
Allan King - Sky
Steve Dixon - Sky

Present

Mark Austin - ITV
Julie Etchingham - ITV
Mary Nightingale - ITV
Natasha Kaplinsky- ITV
Nina Hossain -ITV
Steve Scott - ITV
Asish Joshi - Sky
Lorna Dunkley - Sky
Dermot Murnaghan - Sky
Maxine Mawhinney - BBC
Huw Edwards - BBC
Kate Egan - RTE News (Ireland)
Anthony Murnane - RTE News (Ireland)
Collette Fitzpatrick - TV3 News (Ireland)
Tim Wilcox - BBC
Gavin Esler - BBC
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JW
JamesWorldNews
Past

Sir Alastair Burnet
Sandy Gall
Shereen Nanjiani
Carol Barnes
Nisha Pillai
Moira

Past & Present

Peter Dobbie
Zeinab Badawi
Martine Dennis
Moira
Alastair Stewart

Present

As above plus
Kamahl Santamaria
Tanya Beckett
Karin Giannone

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