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General discussion of Westcountry News/Spotlight (February 2006)

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DA
Dave Founding member
oooh...just seen the lunchtime news and the new graphics look much better than the mega super bold they had been using..like the use of the BBC and Spotlight together... very nice
LO
Londoner
Jemma Woodman to co-present Westcountry Live
MI
mizzb



Seems the right choice to be her replacement , She's got a relaxed manner as well as being rather pwetty too. Wink

Blonde anchors are dominating the SW news scene at the moment.
KE
Kellow
SCOTLAND TODAY ADDICT posted:
DG posted:
Evening
I miss Westcountry Live, certainly one programme that has improved over the years. Please correct me if I am wrong but is Westcountry Live the only regional news programme to have regional regional news when it splits itself four ways north east south and west?

Does anyone remember the time Linda Ward asked her boyfriend to marry her at the end of her late night bulletin?

Anyone with caps of the programme please display them Very Happy
Laughing Very Happy

If you mean opt-outs from the main bulletins at 6 then no. ITV Yorkshire does it splitting North/East and South too. And, up until Mike Nevilles health problems, ITV Tyne Tees used to do this too. Not too sure about any other ITV regions though. STV are soon to start this optout service too.


Interesting. When did they disband with the opt-outs at Westcountry? must be relatively recent? It was the only thing that used to set-it apart from Spotlight
LO
Londoner
No, what SCOTLAND TODAY ADDICT meant was "No, Westcountry is not the only region to have sub-regional opts".

As opposed to "No, there are no opts".
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Is David (Braine) off on one of his sailing holidays? We've had Alex Barr and lately Chris Stumbles (who usually does the forecasts on Radio Devon/Cornwall) doing the weather on Spotlight... Is this Chris's first time doing television forecasts as I've not seen him doing them before...
FU
fusionlad Founding member
James Vertigan posted:
Is David (Braine) off on one of his sailing holidays? We've had Alex Barr and lately Chris Stumbles (who usually does the forecasts on Radio Devon/Cornwall) doing the weather on Spotlight... Is this Chris's first time doing television forecasts as I've not seen him doing them before...


Yes it's the first time I've seen him doing it. Not bad for his first time either.



Completely different subject, but does anyone know what happened to Katie Haswell who presented with Al Jazeera International's David Foster on the very first editions of Westcountry Live?

She was absolutley awful, David Foster could never hide his annoyance and anger at her stupid half-wit comments.

I'm pretty sure I've seen her on a cereal bar advert recently, but can't remember exactly which product to look it up.
NA
nationwide
Katy presented ITN World News and also presented a couple of times on the ITV News Channel.
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
James Vertigan posted:
Is David (Braine) off on one of his sailing holidays?

I don't THINK he's that far away, as we've had Alex, Chris and the odd London forecaster down the line, but always with David popping up for an odd day, every three or four days.

I SUSPECT he's on the dreaded Met Office "special projects".
MI
mizzb
fusionlad posted:


............

Completely different subject, but does anyone know what happened to Katie Haswell who presented with Al Jazeera International's David Foster on the very first editions of Westcountry Live?

She was absolutley awful, David Foster could never hide his annoyance and anger at her stupid half-wit comments.

I'm pretty sure I've seen her on a cereal bar advert recently, but can't remember exactly which product to look it up.


David Foster too ? Shows how sky recruited a lot of their presenters from ITV in the south west at one time.

Anyway Katy Haswell , she kept turning up on my tv in different places last
year and also previous to that.

As mentioned some appearances on the ex ITVNC . As well I 've seen her her on the Travel Channel in an edition of Globetrekker and on ITV's car show Pulling Power .

She was a regular on CNN but that was over five years ago.

So whats she been up to recently as it's all gone very quiet.
LL
London Lite Founding member
The best show Katy Haswell ever did was CNNI's theartclub. Excellent viewing if you were interested in art, but didn't fancy going to a gallery.
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Mizzb, Can you correct the quoting on that post, please, as fusionlad said what you quoted, not me.

Thanks Smile

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