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news presenters (November 2008)

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DA
Davidjb Founding member
NickyS posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Nicky - should we be including you in the list too?? Wink

Well I did it a couple of times!
You have forgotten Darren Jordan, Samira Ahmed, Janet Barrie and I am sure I will remember some others.


Eileen Wheelan & Teymoor Nabili (sp)! Valerie Sanderson did some festive overnights. Anita McNaught was a regular at one point too.

Just thought of two more, Peter Coe & George Eakin.
DA
Davidjb Founding member
noggin posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Oh, maybe I am getting old. But I remember the days when Jane Hill was the overnight newscaster on the BBC!!


Some of us remember Jane doing overnights on BBC News 24 and BBC One only, when BBC World were still doing their own thing (but did a 15 minute bulletin for News 24 twice a night!) The joint service didn't kick in - with Phil Hayton launching it ISTR - until quite a few months after News 24 launched.


Yes i remember those days. It always seemed much more friendly with Jane and just the UK crowd. All the stiff upper British lip talk started when World started getting in on the act. BBC News was very different back then.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Yes, Teymoor and George. I was just going to mention their names, actually. You beat me to it!
AB
Andrew Bower
Darren JORDAN?
NS
NickyS Founding member
Andrew Bower posted:
Darren JORDAN?

sorry my typo .. O
ST
STVNewsAtSix
Did you now that Alastair Yates from the BBC News Channel started off on Grampian TV back in the 80's?
NE
Newsroom
BBC WORLD posted:
I recall (BBC): Jake Lynch, Brenda Paterson. Clarence Mitchell. Deborah MacKenzie. Martine Croxall. Linette Tye. Janat Jallil. Big Al. Doily. Jane Hill. Philippa Thomas. Janet Barrie. Tim Willcox. Peter Dobbie. Brian Hanrahan. In fact, before Martine Croxall, Deborah MacKenzie and Big Al became the mainstays, Susan Osman was probably the most prominent of the overnighters. (Liz Pike was another who used to appear infrequently).

In the golden days of ITN (when ITN was ITN and not ITV News), the names who immediately come to mind (remember ITN were pioneers of 24 hour tv news in the UK, well ahead of BBC News 24, albeit not rolling news) are: Zeinab Badawi / Brenda Rowe / David Chater / Phil Roman / Denis Tuohy / Giles Smith....................

Ah, nostalgia. LOL.


Ahhh, let's not forget Jilly Carter to the ITN list above..
JW
JamesWorldNews
Jilly Carter - that one escapes me! What was she like? Another name that has sprung to mind is Anne Leuchers.
NI
Nicky
BBC WORLD posted:
Jilly Carter - that one escapes me! What was she like? Another name that has sprung to mind is Anne Leuchers.


Ahh, yes... what about David Cass then? He was a fairly good presenter from what I can remember of him.
CI
cityprod
BBC WORLD posted:
Jilly Carter - that one escapes me! What was she like? Another name that has sprung to mind is Anne Leuchers.


Jilly Carter was a TSW newsreader and continuity announcer who then went on to read the news for the BBC, then switched to ITN for overnight news, and occasionally appeared on the Channel 4 Daily too.

She runs a media and presentation skills company now, Carter Communications. http://www.cartercommunications.co.uk/index.html

She is the blonde closest to the camera in the picture of the team at the bottom of the page. When she was on TV, she used to be a brunette.
CI
cityprod
Add Guy de Faye to the ITN list, I've found a YouTube video with him in.
PT
Put The Telly On
cityprod posted:
Add Guy de Faye to the ITN list, I've found a YouTube video with him in.


Yeah plenty more of those to come and I also found out he's now running as a politician in Jersey.

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