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ITV News West Country
''ITV News West Country'' is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country. Overview ''ITV News West Country'' is broadcast from studios in Brislington, Bristol, with district reporters and camera crews based in newsrooms at Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Taunton, Swindon and Gloucester. History The nightly regional news programme was launched on 16 February 2009 as ''The West Country Tonight'', following the merger of two regional news services – ''The West Tonight'' (ITV Wales & West, ITV West) and ''Westcountry Live'' (ITV Westcountry). From 24 November 2016, ''ITV News West Country'' began broadcasting in HD to the ITV West and ITV Westcountry regions on Sky UK, Sky and Freesat only. At present, Freeview (UK), Freeview and Virgin Media carry the ITV News Central region on ITV HD in the West and Westcountry, requiring these viewers to use the standard definition ITV (TV channel), ITV channel for their regional ''ITV News West Country'' service. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV News West Country
''ITV News West Country'' is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country. Overview ''ITV News West Country'' is broadcast from studios in Brislington, Bristol, with district reporters and camera crews based in newsrooms at Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Taunton, Swindon and Gloucester. History The nightly regional news programme was launched on 16 February 2009 as ''The West Country Tonight'', following the merger of two regional news services – ''The West Tonight'' (ITV Wales & West, ITV West) and ''Westcountry Live'' (ITV Westcountry). From 24 November 2016, ''ITV News West Country'' began broadcasting in HD to the ITV West and ITV Westcountry regions on Sky UK, Sky and Freesat only. At present, Freeview (UK), Freeview and Virgin Media carry the ITV News Central region on ITV HD in the West and Westcountry, requiring these viewers to use the standard definition ITV (TV channel), ITV channel for their regional ''ITV News West Country'' service. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freesat
Freesat is a British free-to-air satellite television service, first formed as a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc and now owned by Digital UK. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008. Freesat offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television, with a broadly similar selection of channels available without subscription for users purchasing a receiver. The service also makes use of the additional capacity available on satellite broadcasting to offer a selection of 24 () high-definition channels from broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Arirang TV, Bloomberg, Daystar, FreeSports, Discovery Networks, France 24, NHK, RT UK and TRT World. Freesat's main competitors are Freeview and Virgin Media, and a combination of IPTV and free-to-air services offered by BT, Plusnet and TalkTalk, using YouView. In February 2021, it was announced that, subject to regulatory approval, Freesat wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. In 2019, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the 12th time it has held the award. The channel and its live streaming world news is available on its website, TV platforms, and online platforms such as YouTube and Apple TV, and various mobile devices and digital media players. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation. A channel called Sky News International, simulcasting the UK channel directly but without British advertisements, is available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the Americas. Narrated segments (which generally cover lighter issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC East Midlands Today
''East Midlands Today'' is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East Midlands. The programme is broadcast on BBC One from studios at the BBC's East Midlands broadcasting centre in Nottingham, also home to BBC Radio Nottingham, Radio Nottingham. The main transmitter for the programme is Waltham transmitting station, Waltham near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) from Astra 1N on Freesat channel 952 and Sky (UK and Ireland), Sky channel 960. The latest edition of ''BBC East Midlands Today'' is also available to watch on the BBC iPlayer. History ''BBC East Midlands Today'' was established as an independent programme on 7 January 1991, having previously been a part of ''Midlands Today'', which now solely covers the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region. The split arose from criticisms of ''Midlands Today'' as being too centric on West Midlands coverage, although a service of separate opt-out bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Pentelow
Kylie Ann Pentelow (born 29 June 1979) is an English journalist and television news presenter. She is a presenter of ''ITV News West Country'' and the '' ITV Weekend News''. Education and career Pentelow was educated at the Sir Christopher Hatton School in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. After graduating from the University of Sheffield with an MA in journalism, her first post was as a reporter for the ''Bath Chronicle''. She then joined ''BBC Points West'' as a video journalist, and after joining the BBC graduate training scheme undertook postings in BBC local radio in Oxford and Birmingham, before moving back to television with the BBC News Channel. She then became a reporter/presenter for BBC East Midlands Today. Pentelow then moved to ITV becoming the North America news correspondent for the ITV Breakfast programme '' Daybreak'', where she was primarily based in New York City. In July 2013, she became a co-presenter of the ITV West Country regional news programme ''ITV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV News Meridian
''ITV News Meridian'' is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV Meridian. Overview The news service is produced and broadcast from ITV Meridian's studios in Whiteley, near Fareham with reporters also based at bureaux in Didcot, Brighton, Maidstone, Poole and Reading. Currently, the news service transmits to a vast coverage area across three sub-regions in the South and South East of England. * South * South East * Thames Valley The programme is currently EDF Programme of the Year for London and the South East (for coverage of the 70th anniversary of D-Day) and the Royal Television Society's Southern Centre Programme of the Year (for coverage of the Eastbourne Pier fire) History January 1993 – December 2006 Meridian's flagship regional news programme was launched as ''Meridian Tonight'' on 4 January 1993 – three days after Meridian replaced TVS. Three sub-regional editions of the programme were broadcast simultaneously, from studios in Southampt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning Britain (2014 TV Programme)
''Good Morning Britain'' (often abbreviated to ''GMB'') is a British breakfast television programme that is broadcast on ITV. It debuted on 28 April 2014 and is broadcast live every weekday from 6:00am to 9:00am across Britain and Northern Ireland. The programme features a variety of news, interviews, politics, sport, entertainment, competitions and weather as well as local news bulletins delivered by the ITV regions. Format The magazine-style show includes headline updates at the beginning of the programme and at the top of each hour thereafter, then three short three-minute regional bulletins at quarter past the hour featuring news, travel/transit advisories, and weather. From 6 January 2020, the first half-hour features Hawkins, Garraway or Singh reading the day's headlines, joined at 6:30 a.m. by two of the main anchors, and although this format was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, it later returned on 31 August 2020. The show features interviews with celebriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Crampton
Bob Crampton is a British former journalist and TV presenter. Early life and career Crampton was born in South Africa. His father was the country's first radio DJ to introduce piano music. At the age of 11, Crampton wanted to become a rugby player. He was educated at Sutton High School in Plymouth. After leaving Sutton High School, he was employed by a small weekly newspaper in North Devon for a four-year apprenticeship as a reporter. In 1983, Crampton moved to ITV Wales & West and became a news presenter and reporter. In 2008 he was appointed the weather presenter for ''The West Tonight''. On 16 February 2009 the ''ITV News West Country'' launched, following the merger of ''The West Tonight'' with ''Westcountry Live'', Crampton was retained alongside Alex Beresford. After 41 years at ITV, he retired on 29 June 2018. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Beresford
Alexander Isaac Beresford (born 17 October 1980) is an English weather presenter employed by ITV."ITV National Weather Team" , 28 June 2020. Early life Beresford was born in , England. His mother is English and his father is Guyanese. He grew up in the Eastville area of Bristol and went to the St Thomas More RC School (now[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Scott (journalist)
Stephen James Young Scott (born 25 September 1961) is a British journalist and presenter employed by ITN as the sports editor and newscaster for ''ITV News''. In 2021 he was named both broadcast journalist of the year and sports news reporter of the year at the annual ''Sports Journalists' Association'' Awards. Television career Scott began his television career with ''The West Tonight'' on ITV West, joining as Industrial Correspondent from local radio station GWR, where he was the news editor and presenter. He joined the ITN produced ''ITV News'' in 1993 as the North of England correspondent based in Leeds and West of England correspondent in Bristol."Small talk" '''', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Aziz
Lisa Soraya Aziz (born 19 June 1962) is a British news presenter. She is best known as the presenter of the Morning News on LBC. Before this she worked for ITV Westcountry as a co-presenter for the evening news programme: The West Country Tonight. She later resigned from that post. She also presented the news on TV-am and Sky News, and was one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television. In 2004, she was the recipient of an EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy) award for Best Television News Journalist. Lisa currently presents the breakfast show on the UK's first 24-hour rolling news radio station LBC News. Early life Aziz was born in Totnes, Devon to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in History of Art and Religious Studies from the University of London, after which she joined Radio City, in Liverpool, as a presenter. In 1983, she moved to Bristol where she worked as a television reporter and presenter for the BBC and HT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Channel)
ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc. It provides the ITV (TV network), Channel 3 public broadcast service across all of the United Kingdom except for the central and northern areas of Scotland where STV (TV channel), STV provides the service. ITV1 as a consistent national channel (with dedicated slots for regional news and other regional programmes) evolved out of the old ITV (TV network), ITV network – a federation of separately owned regional companies which had significantly different local schedules and branding. During the 1990s, the differences between the schedules in each region gradually reduced – partly through the consolidation of ownership and partly through the standardisation in the volume and scheduling of regional programmes. In 2002, a major change of appearance occurred when all ITV regions in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
