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London Plus
''London Plus'' was the name of the BBC's regional news programme for southeastern England. Launched on Monday 3 September 1984, the programme represented the BBC's attempt to boost regional news service for the South East. Prior to the launch of ''London Plus'', BBC South East did not have its own dedicated team of presenting staff and the teatime regional news programme for the South East was delivered by presenters of the main national programme (first ''Nationwide (TV series), Nationwide'', then ''Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme), Sixty Minutes'') although since the start of 1982 the teatime programme had been called ''Nationwide – South East at Six''. From Monday 2 September 1985, London viewers finally got the same level of regional news as the rest of the UK when the London Plus team began to provide weekday regional news at lunchtime, mid-afternoons and Saturday teatimes for the first time. Previously, on weekday lunchtimes, London and south east viewers received a ''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationwide (TV Series)
} ''Nationwide'' was a BBC current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 5 August 1983. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 from Tuesday to Thursday, and then each weekday from 1972, it followed the early evening news, and included the regional opt-out news programmes. Outline It followed a magazine format, combining regional news, political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981, the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983 and, the following October, it was replaced by ''Sixty Minutes''. The long-running ''Watchdog'' programme began as a ''Nationwide'' feature. The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to ''That's Life!'', with eccentric stories such as a skateboarding duck and men who claimed that they could walk on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Michelmore
Guy Michelmore is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter. Early life Michelmore is the son of BBC presenters Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalfe. His mother Jean was the presenter of ''Family Favourites'' and ''Woman's Hour''. His father Cliff was best known for the BBC television programme ''Tonight''. Cliff once interviewed himself, and asked whether either his son or daughter had shown any interest in television – Cliff answered by saying that ten-year-old Guy was "at that point where he is fascinated and interested in all things... even his father's job!" Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey and Pembroke College, Oxford. News presenter Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's ''About Anglia'' before joining the BBC programme ''Newsroom South East'' in 1993. He left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. Michelmore famously spilt his drink all over himself and his desk b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television News In London
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Regional News Shows
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Wellings
Robert Arthur Wellings (1 April 1934 – 1 March 2022) was a British television presenter who worked most notably on BBC current affairs television programme '' Nationwide''. Early life Wellings was born on 1 April 1934 in Jerusalem, then Mandatory Palestine, son to Louise (née Dalzell) and Francis Wellings, a geologist for the Iraq Petroleum Company originally from Shropshire. The family lived in the Far East before moving to the United States as the second world war broke out. Wellings, whose mother was from Texas, attended an American military school. After the war in 1947, the family moved to Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Wellings attended Downside school in Somerset, where he boarded. He spent his National Service in the RAF before reading English at Trinity College, Cambridge. It was at Trinity where Wellings appeared in Footlights amateur dramatic productions. Career Wellings began his career as a hack writer of children's books and as a cartoonist for Tatler and Punch m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wale
Michael Wale is a Canadian cinematographer and director known for his work on The WB / CW television series ''Smallville'' and ''iZombie'' as well as the Fox television series ''Fringe'' and '' Almost Human''. Career Wale began his career as a camera trainee on Chris Carter's ''The X-Files''. He worked on several films and television series as a camera assistant and later as a camera operator on ''So Weird'', '' Just Cause'', and ''The L Word''. As a cinematographer his work included: '' Sk8'', '' Sub Zero'', ''The Troop ''and ''Continuum''. He served on the second season of CW Network's ''iZombie'' as director of "The Hurt Stalker" which premiered in late 2015. Wale served as cinematographer on the final season of Superman prequel series ''Smallville'', on which he first served as second unit camera operator, and then series cinematographer. He went on to be nominated for an award for best cinematography in a dramatic series from both the American Society of Cinematographe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stapleton (English Journalist)
John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and reporter on ITV breakfast television (''TV-am'', ''GMTV'' and '' Daybreak'') in addition to hosting '' Nationwide'' and ''Watchdog'' for the BBC. He won the Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year award for 2003, and was married to the late presenter Lynn Faulds Wood. Together they presented ''Watchdog'' between 1985 and 1993. Early life Stapleton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local co-operative and his mother, June was a part-time primary school teacher. Stapleton was educated at Diggle, Greater Manchester, Diggle Primary School and Oldham Hulme Grammar School, Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester where he did "A" levels. He did not go to university, but started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct Eccles, Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Righton
Caroline Anne Righton (born 26 February 1958), is an English television presenter and author, best known for being a presenter on the daily breakfast television station TV-am and being an anchor of the Channel 4 news show, ''The Channel Four Daily''. At the 2010 general election, Righton was the Conservative candidate for the new St Austell and Newquay constituency but lost to the Liberal Democrats. Biography Born Caroline Donovan in Bristol, Righton worked in several restaurants and hotels when she was a teenager; however, she had always intended to become a journalist. She worked as a Junior reporter for ''The West Briton'' and the ''Cornish Guardian''. Also during this time, Caroline was presenting regional TV programmes for ''BBC South West'' in Plymouth. This work enabled her to gain vital experience, and she became one of the founding presenters of BBC Radio Cornwall in 1984. After presenting the ''Duchy Today'' programme with Ted Gundry, Righton became a producer of Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and television presenter. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper '' Varsity''. At Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, although in later life described himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined the BBC in 1972, initially at BBC Radio Brighton, although he relocated to London in 1977. In coming years, he worked on ''Tonight'' and '' Panorama'' before becoming a newsreader for the ''BBC Six O'Clock News'' and later a presenter on '' Breakfast Time''. In 1989, he became a presenter for the BBC Two programme ''Newsnight'', during which he interviewed a wide range of political figures. Paxman became known for his forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians. These appearances were sometimes criticised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Mitchell
Linda Mitchell is an American artist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, her works have been exhibited widely, especially in the US. She is known for her mixed-media animal paintings and installations. She has two MFAs from Georgia State University in painting and sculpture. Linda combines painted and sculptural imagery, creating multimedia paintings that are intricate, surreal scenes, reflecting life’s complexity – layered with experience, memory, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Linda Mitchell's works have been exhibited since 1982. Exhibitions 2023 Bangkok 2023 (Online Exhibition), Art in Embassies, US Department of State 2021 Esprits des Animaux, Mason Fine Art. Atlanta, GA 2020 Solo Exhibition, Foosaner Art Museum. Melbourne FL. 2019 Truth in Animals, Cultural Arts Council, Douglasville, Georgia 2017 Truth in Animals, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA 2017 Truth in Animals, Southern Alleghenies Museum or Art, Johnstown, PA. 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Meacock
Lucy Meacock is an English journalist and presenter employed by ITV Granada. She has been one of the main female news presenters of ITV regional news programme, ''Granada Reports'' since 1988 and celebrated 30 years presenting the programme in November 2018 at age 59. Early life and education Lucy Meacock moved to Chester when she was six. She was educated at the independent school, Ursuline Convent, in Chester. She then moved to Australia, where she attended the independent Morongo Girls College in Geelong, Victoria. After returning to the United Kingdom, she attended the independent Upper Chine School in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. Broadcasting career Meacock started her career at the ''Chester Chronicle''. She went on to work with BBC Radio Newcastle, ''ITV News Tyne Tees'' on ITV Tyne Tees and ''London Plus'' on BBC South East in the 1980s. She then worked for ''ITV News Anglia'' on ITV Anglia. Meacock has been the lead female presenter for ''Granada Reports'' on ITV Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
