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(January 2003)

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JE
Jez Founding member
Dan? Dont you mean Leighton?

And TV D who is your fave of all the CA past and present on HTV?

I used to like Margaret and also Sue is good. I cant stand Dillwyn!

Wiggy was OK - but I thought you called him an oddball or was that someone else?

When you think about it we havent had a lot of CA here in Wales - In the 80s we had Margaret, Wiggy, Dillwyn, Sue and Jenny - then Jenny and Margaret left at the end of 1992 I think, Wiggy moved to the news Dillywn to the weather and Sue stayed. And since then we've had Dan and Leighton and not many other regular announcers.
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A former member
Jez posted:
Dan? Dont you mean Leighton?

And TV D who is your fave of all the CA past and present on HTV?


Well to allow everyone to vent their splean there is now a poll running over at :-

VOTE for your favourite ITV1Wales announcer NOW!!
JE
Jez Founding member
Yeah I have voted in that poll - I might start a poll asking to vote for CA past and present
SW
swanseas-sound
Jez posted:
Yeah I have voted in that poll - I might start a poll asking to vote for CA past and present


Well lets let this one run for a while to get the general publics' view on the current state of the announcers and then next week i will allow you to run one with ten of the best/famous welsh announcers!
JE
Jez Founding member
Too late I posted the poll before I read your message swansea sound
SW
swanseas-sound
Jez posted:
Too late I posted the poll before I read your message swansea sound


Oh you will have to delete it then!

That is an order

AChtung
JE
Jez Founding member
Why should I delete it - its my poll. I dont take orders off anyone, so im not going to listen to you.
TV
TVDragon
You lot arguing again? Rolling Eyes

Jez posted:
Dan? Dont you mean Leighton?

No it wasn't Leighton on Wednesday evening -- not to the best of my recollection. It's pushing two days ago you know, I've had a sleep since then! [Just the one, sadly].


Jez posted:
And TV D who is your fave of all the CA past and present on HTV?

I used to like Margaret and also Sue is good. I cant stand Dillwyn!

Wiggy was OK - but I thought you called him an oddball or was that someone else?

No that was Mr Prout. I like Wiggy, and he was quite the star in IVC, as well as Dilwyn [one 'L' for Dilwyn -- otherwise you're in the Welsh 'LL' territory for his name]. And I like Dilwyn's style of weather presenting too -- I think Derek owes a lot to him, if he's honest! And yes, I think Sue's ok too.



6:45 EDIT:
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A completely Sadsack free week! 1 Tara, 2 Sallys, a Horseworthy and now Justina to finish off [a very mixed week], but no Andrew Jones!
JE
Jez Founding member
Lol its been nice to have an Andrew free week!

Nice to see Juliet on the 6pm programme - I actually like her more than Lucy atm.

Cath Evan-Williams did a lighter report tonight and seemed a little more friendly. Ruth was awful as usual on the weather.

Rights odds on who will be presenting the weekend news

Carol 2/1
Horseworthy 3/1
Mcteer 3/1
Tara 10/1
Cath 25/1
Juliet 50/1
Sally 50/1
Sadsack 100/1
Steve 150/1
Lucy 200/1
Ruth 500/1
Jonathan 500/1

And the weather

Emma 2/1
Charlie 4/1
James 10/1
Joanna 500/1
Ruth 1000/1 Very Happy


And finally for the GMTV bulletins on Monday


Andrew 2/1
Sally 4/1
Horseworthy 5/1
Justina 10/1
Tara 10/1
Cath 25/1
Mcteer 25/1
Juliet 25/1
Ruth 100/1
Lucy/Jonathan 500/1
JE
Jez Founding member
TV D dont you agree we should have someone decent on the news on the weekend - we usually get the worst ones!

Tommorow will be depressing as Wales will almost certainly lose against England. Sad
TV
TVDragon
Jez posted:
TV D dont you agree we should have someone decent on the news on the weekend - we usually get the worst ones!

Well I don't really do HTV News on the weekend, so it's always news to me whatever happens on it. But it's logical that the best ones get the weekends off though.

Jez posted:
Tommorow will be depressing as Wales will almost certainly lose against England. Sad

I have some English relatives [well, about 4..] and I'm sure they don't care as much about it as Wales do, and they'll still probably win. But then again Wales surprisingly won a couple of years back.. I can't say I follow rugby but I wouldn't like to see Wales lose, although sometimes it can be in some perverse way satisfying when loud mouthed fools in town suddenly get taken down a peg or two.. But then that's cruel -- and stay out of their way afterwards! We'll have to see.

Yeah, Catherine did a cheerier report last night, obviously getting more into the party spirit about Cerys Matthews' wedding coming up in Pembrokeshire. Excitement. Wonder if Catherine Zeta Jones popped into her friends' houses down in Mumbles for a cup of tea and a jam sandwich..? I think not somehow. Forgotten her roots now, see -- she's no longer Zeta from the block.

Yeah, Juliet's a more than pleasant replacement for Lucy, but you're still being mean to Ruth! Confused Her hair's back to blonde again now, in case you hadn't noticed. And Lucy might've still been at work today, since she did a [brief, and voiced-only] report on the 6pm programme.
JE
Jez Founding member
I cant bear the watch the rugby - far too depressing!

I still have issues with Ruth - cant believe she did the late news on Monday - I mean the weather girl - purlease!!! She should make up her mind - the news of weather - its inappropriate for her to do both.

I noticed that Lucy did a short report - maybe she had a 1/2 day or whatever so did a report and went home.

Juliet is my fave HTV Newsreader, followed by Lucy, Jonathan, Justina, Sally, Tara, then Catherine LOL

I dont like Mcteer, Sadsack or Horseworthy but although they are technically the worst, I find Ruth just gets on my nerves.

And TV D - You might not watch the weekend news but what about my odds for GMTV on Monday? I reackon it will be Sadsack!

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