ITV News

The ITV1 Lunchtime presenters were doing it last week occassionally to - though I doubt when Alistair Stewart stood in he appeared!

The ITV News Channel closes THIS Friday according to the Broadcast website.

Chris is still on now - he's supposed to be with Emma Walden apprently but aint seen her yet...

And the picture is really bad too...

I wonder if the news channel will have any of it's regulars this week...

Who has been on today so far...?

I've got a feeling they may want to keep Chris Rogers on at ITV news because since the announcement he has done a lot of the london news late shifts normally covered by itv regulars Joyce & Owen.

A challenge now would be to make a list of every presenter who has ever presented on the ITV News Channel.

The closure means we won't see the return of Phil Gayle after his year away!

Plus, I wonder if Lucy Owen will still do the news on Christmas Day. It was quite obvious she was trying to make a name for herself on national news, now there will be no room for her.

It's not a good time to be a newsreader, what with the ITV News Channel closing, plus the ITN Five News and LNN London Tonight teams recently being axed, there's dozens of presenters with no TV job available

Here's the list from when the subject last came up on the forum:


1. Adrian Britton
2. Alastair Stewart
3. Andrea Catherwood
4. Andrew Harvey
5. Angela Rippon
6. Anne Diamond
7. Ben Scotchbrook
8. Bill Neely
9. Carol Barnes
10. Carrie Frais
11. Chris Rogers
12. Chris Ship
13. Clare Weller
14. Emma Walden
15. Faye Barker
16. Felicity Barr
17. Hannah Stewart-Jones
18. Heather McCarthy
19. Isha Sesay
20. James Mates
21. Jasmin Lowson
22. John Draper
23. John Nicolson
24. John Stapleton
25. John Suchet
26. Jonathan Morrell
27. Jonathan Wills
28. Joyce Ohajah
29. Katie Derham
30. Katie Ledger
31. Lauren Taylor
32. Leyla Daybelge
33. Lloyd Bracey
34. Louisa Preston
35. Lucy Alexander
36. Lucy Owen
37. Lynda Bryans
38. Mark Austin
39. Mark Webster
40. Mary Nightingale
41. Melanie James
42. Nazanine Moshiri
43. Nicholas Owen
44. Nick Clark
45. Nina Hossain
46. Owen Thomas
47. Phil Gayle
48. Philippa Thomson
49. Rachel McTavish
50. Romilly Weeks
51. Ronke Phillips
52. Sasha Herriman
53. Shiulie Ghosh
54. Sian Jones
55. So Rahman
56. Steve Scott
57. Susan Bookbinder
58. Tom Bradby
59. Trevor McDonald
60. Vanessa Langford
61. Mark Owen

To which need to be added:

62. Charlotte Hawkins
63. Scott Chisholm
64. Saima Mohsin
65. Jemma Woodman
66. Geraint Vincent [thanks, Luke]
67. Jonathan Dimbleby [he did a few NC specials during the Iraq war]
68. Sharon Grey
69. Anne Leuchars
70. Ros Childs
71. Katie Haswell

Any more?

Geraint Vincent

I hope she does, IMO she is better than half the national team. Juliet Piper is standing in for Lucy tonight on Wales Tonight so perhaps she has already gone to the ITV News.

Where did Phil Gayle go then? And what's this about London Tonight teams being axed, is it goodbye to Tamsin Sylvester & other on air talents?

Phil apparently went to spend a year working in Australia.

Andrew is referring to the cull of presenters at the time London Tonight moved from LNN to ITN in early 2004.

Talking about who has been with the channel the longest, as well as Andrew Harvey and Leyla Daybelge, there's also Rachel McTavish who was there right at the start, plus Sasha Herriman has been a regular face since the very early days.

Doesn't Sasha apparantly sing, maybe she could give us a quick number on Friday!

Sharon Grey
Anne Leuchars
Phillip Raey Smith
Dan Rivers????
Denis Touhy
Tim Neilsen