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(June 2001)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
I've almost just fallen off my chair 4 times this Lunchtime whilst watching ITV in the Yorkshire region

First, the ITV News was presented by a women with no name, who I'd never seen before

Then the ITV National Weather presenter was a big shock, It was none other than YTV's John 'Heres your sumareeee' Mitchell.

In fact the YTV presentation team must also have been taken aback, as we ended up with a YTV local ident 'Umm a ning ning'ing away to itself, with no
annoucement!

Then finally, Calendar News was 'With Anne-Marie Tasker', They must really be short of female presenters (I haven't seen Karen Petch for a while) or maybe they're training up all the reporters to presenters
BP
Big Phil
ITV News was presented by Helen Wright this lunchtime, she occasionally presents on the ITN News Channel.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Big Phil posted:
ITV News was presented by Helen Wright this lunchtime, she occasionally presents on the ITN News Channel.


The problem with the short ITV News bulletins is that
a) Theres no 'From ITN, the ITV News with...'
b) The annoucer prior to the programme don't tell us
c) Theres no caption

So therefore the person remains annoymous!
BP
Big Phil
Yes, it's annoying, that. They should bring up the aston like they do overnight on ITV, but luckily I know most of their names anyway.
SZ
Sub Zero
I've attempted to watch ITV News overnight, but can't get up / stay up!
Did anyone get a picture of the names? (screenshot)
AN
Andrew Founding member
Just in case anyone is interested

Anne-Marie Tasker is doing Calendar News again today

Sadly, Sian Lloyd is back as normal on the ITV National Weather
SA
savagegardenkid
From getting up early in the morning, I think that Sharon Gray reads the news overnight, but from past Morning News programmes (1990's), Denis Tuohy and Phil Roman used to present it. Didn't they used to take a massive chunk of the programme for their slot called 'ITN WORLD NEWS'? Anyway, I hoped this has helped!!
AN
Andrew Founding member
Jon Mitchell was back doing the YTV Weather (Sponsored by Yorkshire
Electricity Home Services) today

Also of interest, Charlotte Doney did the 3.25pm and 10.25pm Look North today. There was a proper clock at 10 voiced by the usual annoucer.

Clare Frisby is still away from Look North by the way
SU
SpiringUnhacked
Andrew posted:
I've almost just fallen off my chair 4 times this Lunchtime whilst watching ITV in the Yorkshire region

First, the ITV News was presented by a women with no name, who I'd never seen before

Then the ITV National Weather presenter was a big shock, It was none other than YTV's John 'Heres your sumareeee' Mitchell.

In fact the YTV presentation team must also have been taken aback, as we ended up with a YTV local ident 'Umm a ning ning'ing away to itself, with no
annoucement!

Then finally, Calendar News was 'With Anne-Marie Tasker', They must really be short of female presenters (I haven't seen Karen Petch for a while) or maybe they're training up all the reporters to presenters

Yeah, yesterday, a generic ident appeared with no announcer. And why does Survivor sometimes come on without an ident - the announcer speaking to a montage of Survivor logos and images!?!
AN
Andrew Founding member
SpiringUnhacked posted:
Andrew posted:
I've almost just fallen off my chair 4 times this Lunchtime whilst watching ITV in the Yorkshire region

First, the ITV News was presented by a women with no name, who I'd never seen before

Then the ITV National Weather presenter was a big shock, It was none other than YTV's John 'Heres your sumareeee' Mitchell.

In fact the YTV presentation team must also have been taken aback, as we ended up with a YTV local ident 'Umm a ning ning'ing away to itself, with no
annoucement!

Then finally, Calendar News was 'With Anne-Marie Tasker', They must really be short of female presenters (I haven't seen Karen Petch for a while) or maybe they're training up all the reporters to presenters

Yeah, yesterday, a generic ident appeared with no announcer. And why does Survivor sometimes come on without an ident - the announcer speaking to a montage of Survivor logos and images!?!


Most probably another part of ITV's campaign to increase the ratings of Survivor
BP
Big Phil
On the subject of strange presenters on ITV Weather, there was once another woman presenting it, but I only saw her once. She was quite young with long dark hair. Do I assume that she was from one of the regions? I think it was late last year on a Saturday.
AN
Andrew Founding member
I think you might mean Clare Nasir, who I think can usually be found on GMTV

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