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Gordon Honeycombe has died

(October 2015)

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RO
rob Founding member
Former ITN and TVam newscaster Gordon Honeycombe has died aged 79.



:-(
A former member
Great Loss, I never know he was in a few films or did TV work for Scottish and Southern TV?

Is this true?
Quote:
He was voted the most popular male TV newscaster by readers of Woman's Own magazine in 1986
BS
Ben Shatliff
Very sad indeed. A great presenter. I remember him on TV-AM in the eighties.
LL
London Lite Founding member
I only remember him from breakfast tv, from an era when breakfast tv on ITV still meant classic formal delivery.
RO
rob Founding member
Here he is in 2005, co-presenting the ITV Evening News.

bilky asko, Nicky and London Lite gave kudos
BR
Brekkie
As much as I love the look of ITV News now, that's is probably the best look it's ever had - and definately the best sound!
OM
Omnipresent
Very sad news. His calm authority did a lot for TV-AM when the channel went through a very unstable period in the 1980s.
MF
MatthewFirth
This is certainly a sad day for ITV News, News at Ten will end sadly tonight. Gordon will probably be mentioned, followed by Alastair's final goodnights.
BA
bilky asko
rob posted:
Here he is in 2005, co-presenting the ITV Evening News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=media


Quite an informal end to that edition, I have to say!
JA
JAS84
Why does Facebook say this?
Quote:
Gordon Honeycombe: Former News Presenter Dies at 79, TV-am Says
Honeycombe worked for ITN and TV-am. “Gordon will be remembered for his authority, intelligence and wonderful sense of humour and great kindness," TV-am said in a statement.
TV-am has been gone since 1993. They can't have issued any statement... Confused
JA
james-2001
Presumably it's from Ian White who owns the name and runs the website about them.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Why does Facebook say this?
Quote:
Gordon Honeycombe: Former News Presenter Dies at 79, TV-am Says
Honeycombe worked for ITN and TV-am. “Gordon will be remembered for his authority, intelligence and wonderful sense of humour and great kindness," TV-am said in a statement.
TV-am has been gone since 1993. They can't have issued any statement... Confused


http://www.tv-am.org.uk/blog/2015/10/gordonhoneycombe

Anybody who had a visible presence or cut their teeth on TV-AM usually gets mentioned on the company's website when they die. The website, as stated, is run by Ian White who bought the company a few years after the station closed.

*edited as I can't believe I wrote something so blunt originally*
Last edited by Neil Jones on 9 October 2015 10:25pm

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