News 24 thru the years

Trying to remember what the News 24 line-ups have been over the years. Can anyone help? Not gonna do dates, just doing them in order starting with most recent. Also just doing regular presenters, not holiday stand-ins etc...

8.30 Kate/Simon 11 Matthew/Jane 14 Jon/Louise 17 Huw 18 Ben/Joanna 22 Chris E
8.30 Kate/Simon 11 Matthew/Jane 14 Jon/Louise 17 Huw 18 Ben/Emily 22 Chris E
9 Kate/Simon 13 Matthew/Maxine 16 Jon/Louise 19 Jane/Chris 23 Dobster
9 Phil/Anna 13 Chris/Maxine 16 Matthew/Jane 19 Jon/Louise 23 Dobster

Is this right so far? What was before this? I know Phil/Anna were before Kate/Simon.

Launch line-up in November 1997 was something like :

0600-0900 Sarah Montague / Chris Eakin / David Robertson (7 days a week)
0900-1200 Ben Geoghagen (Mon-Fri) / Jackie Hardgrave (Mon-Thur) / Anastasia Cooke (Fri)
1200-1600 Krishnan Guru Murthy / Valerie Sanderson
1600-1900 Gavin Esler / Sian Williams
1900-2300 Kate Garraway or Matthew Amroliwalla (Not sure about this - slot may be different - but was single-headed)
2300-0100 Christopher Price and others (initially this was single headed with a heavy entertainment bias but a single presenter also covering News duties, prior to entertainment being spun off into Zero 30 which Christopher Price then presented.)
0100-0600 Jane Hill and others (prior to merger with BBC World overnight)

This is a bit murky - 10 years ago after all.

At 0645 there was Continental Breakfast with Shireen Wheeler
0900-1200 included a regular Science slot, though not daily
1400-1600 included Active UK, and Active World single-headed regional and international back half-hours and there was a long business bulletin at 1330 (I think)
1700-1900 included The Essential Guide (with Mark Webster, Eddie Mair or Christopher Price?) at just before the top of the hour.
1900-2200 included Europe Direct (initially a live simulcast on BBC World at 1900, then moved to 2000 presented by Brian Hanrahan at launch and also regularly by Peter Dobbie?) and Hardtalk with Tim Sebastian. There was also Interactive, a live phone-in (or phone-out?) show presented by Matthew Amroliwalla and Christopher Price.
2200-0100 included USA Direct? (Brian Barron and Bill Turnbull in New York and Washington respectively)

Other launch - or close-to-launch - presenters at weekends and in the evenings included : Andy Webb, Steve Macormack, Gideon Coe, Brenda Paterson, Peter Allen (who co-presented Sunday mornings with Jane Hill), Roger Black and Sybil Ruscoe (who presented Saturday Sport), Shahnaz Pakravan, and quite a few others whose names escape me. Phil Hayton regularly did weekends - when he was still a weekday presenter at BBC World.

Soon after the News 24 and World overnight services merged, with Phil Hayton launching them and then Jane Hill and Teymoor Nabile being regular early faces. Samira Ahmed, Janet Barrie and Heather McCarthy also were quite early overnight presenters (though ISTR these were post the Nov 1998 move to the current studio)

Weekend back half hours included Book Talk with Sir Robin Day, Dateline London with Charles Wheeler, Chronicle with Robert Fox, and repeats of Correspondent etc.

Prior to the launch of the joint overnight service BBC World provided a short international bulletin at 0115 and 0215, and there were back half hour programmes on tape at 0230, 0330, 0430. Can't remember 0130 and 0530 slots initially - they moved to be UK News when the service merged with World.

Noggin

You have a good memory. I was in World land when N24 was launched. We regularly got Europe Direct, mainly with Brian Hanrahan. I think it was simulcast at weekends?

On the overnights, Jane Hill was the primary presenter, followed by Janet Barrie and eventually Samira Ahmed.

There was a 4th (male) presenter who used to share the overnights too. I can't actually recall who it was though, but it possibly could have been Peter Coe or Adrian Finighan.

You make reference to a Gideon Coe in your post above. Who was he? Can't recall that name at all.

Cheers,
James

let me continue:

December 2003 line-up:
0900-1300: Phillip Hayton and Anna Jones (Mon-Thur) / Carrie Gracie (Fri)
1300-1600: Chris Eakin and Maxine Mawhinney (Mon-Thur) / Liz Pike (Fri)
1600-1900: Matthew Amroliwala and Jane Hill (Mon-Fri)
1900-2300: Jon Sopel and Louise Minchin (Mon-Thur) / Chris Lowe and Joanna Gosling (Fri-Sun)
2300-0100: Peter Dobbie (Mon-Thur) / Tim Willcox (Fri)
0100-0500: Deborah McKenzie (Mon-Wed) / Alastair Yates (Thur-Sat) / various (Sun)

Saturdays:
1000-1300: Carrie Gracie
1300-1900: Peter Sissons
1900-2300: Chris Lowe and Joanna Gosling

Sundays:
0900-1300: Tim Willcox
1300-1700: Philip Hayton
1700-1900: Peter Sissons
1900-2300: Chris Lowe and Joana Gosling

Christopher Price - he was a main news presenter? I always remember him from Liquid News, im sure there was a spin off, or repeat on News 24 late evening or night?

Did they ever find out what he died from?

Sundays were often Martine Croxall around 2003.

There was a presenter who did overnights on News 24 for ages before Deborah and Alastair, and she moved to the ITV News Channel, and it's driving me mad trying to think of her name.

edit: Noggin mentioned above Heather McCarthy, that's her. She was definitely still there after the studio move.

heather mccarthy?

Before that Phil and Joanna did the 9am-1pm shift, Chris and Valerie on 1-4 with Maxine on Saturday mornings? 7-11pm was Carrie Gracie, Liz Pike, David Eades, Peter Dobbie...Chris and Anna did Weekend evenings

He died of meningoencephalitis - a condition that probably spread from his ear infection.

On News 24, he did an earlier news stint before it felt it was best suited to his talents so a new Entertainment programme was generated under the name of Zero 30.

It was a shame to see Price die as he was due to present the alternative version of Eurovision on BBC3 in 2002. Basically same show but just with his commentary. It would have been blinding.

Ah i see, thanks for that. I really liked him on Liquid News, ah its coming back to me now, he presented a Liquid News or 60Second(mins) special on 9/11.

You've got it slightly backwards.

Christopher originally presented a full-time slot on News 24, which included normal news but also had an entertainment bias.

Quite quickly it was decided to spin the entertainment news out into a separate programme called Zero 30 (airing at 0030) which Christopher presented, with a more "conventional" newsreader presenting the news elements before 0030.

Zero 30 was eventually dropped by News 24, but at around the same time Stuart Murphy decided to commission a daily show for BBC Choice from the same team, with Christopher presenting, called Liquid News.

There was also a weekly, usually specially pre-recorded, BBC One edition of Liquid News, as well as versions for BBC Prime and BBC America at one point.

News 24 took a shorter, 10-15 minute "Best of" version which was just links into VTs, without guests, that got played over the weekend on News 24. It was usually presented by one of the Liquid News reporters (Emma Jones, Tim Muffett etc.)

Other early day News 24 programmes included USA Direct, Science Review, Australia Direct & Face In The Crowd. USA Direct i think was a 5 day a week programme at one point presented mainly by Brian Barron and/or Jane Hughes from New York. Bridget Kendal also presented. Science Review was weekends & Face In The Crowd was all over the place. Science review was similar in ways to what Click now does but obviously it was much lower budget and not quite as informative. 7 Days is an early programme too. Initially presented in a very identical way to Reporters although it then just became text and VT'S when it got shortened to 15 mins to fit in with Agenda, It's Your Money etc and then axed all together. Australia Direct i believe was weekends during the summer presented by Michael Peschardt (sp?).