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Frederick Edgar Dinenage
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(born 8 June 1942) is an English author and retired broadcaster and television presenter. His television career spanned nearly 60 years, including the long-running children's programme ''
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'' and ITV's regional programming in the south of England. Dinenage retired from
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on 16 December 2021, after 38 years as a news anchor.


Early life and education

Dinenage was born in
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. He was educated at
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(a state grammar school during the time he attended it; it later became an
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).


Career

Dinenage has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (many of them produced by
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, and its successors TVS and
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), such as '' Tell The Truth'', ''
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'' and its successor ''
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'', as well as the
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'' Pass The Buck'' and ''
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'' (produced by Anglia).


News anchor

Dinenage began his career at
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in 1964, as a presenter on ''Three Go Round'', a part-networked children's programme, alongside actress
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and future television producer
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. He later moved onto the station's local news magazine programme, ''Day By Day'', as a reporter and presenter. In later years, he concentrated on sports coverage, hosting the programme's weekly ''South Sport'' feature. Dinenage transferred from Southern to TVS in January 1982, chiefly as a sports presenter and reporter, working on '' Coast to Coast'', ''Sportshow'' and ''The Saturday Match''. The following year, he took over from Khalid Aziz as the main anchor for the South edition of ''Coast to Coast'', co-presenting alongside Christopher Peacock,
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,
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and
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. After TVS lost its franchise, Dinenage was retained by Meridian as anchor for the South edition of ''Meridian Tonight'' and other non-news regional programmes. His co-anchors included Debbie Thrower,
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, Jane Wyatt and
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. In October 2021, it was announced that Dinenage would step down from ITV, after 38 years as a news anchor in the south of England. His final edition of ''ITV News Meridian'' aired on 16 December 2021.


Other work

Dinenage spent a brief period in the late 1970s covering regional sport for
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. He also appeared as a relief presenter of the networked
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Saturday afternoon show, '' World of Sport'' - a role which earned him an appearance on the children's Saturday show ''
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''. He also has his own weekly column featured on the magazine of the
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local newspaper, ''
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''. Alongside his television career, Dinenage has written several factual books, including ghosting on autobiographies '' My Story'' and ''
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'' for the
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. He is a keen
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follower and was on the board of directors at
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between 1998 and 2007. He was a team captain on the ITV game show ''Never Had It So Good'', shown in 2002. He also narrated Driver's Eye Views for railway filming company "Video 125". In February 2014, he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a reporter and presenter with
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, announcing that he hoped to continue broadcasting into the future. ''Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook'', a crime documentary series on 20th century murders was first broadcast on the
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in 2011. He has also narrated ''
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'' for Pick since 2017. Dinenage was appointed
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(MBE) in the
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, for services to broadcasting. On 16 October 2020, it was announced Dinenage would appear in a new series of ''How'', alongside
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, Sam Homewood and Frankie Vu. A year later in December 2021, Dinenage announced his retirement from ITV Meridian, ending a career that has lasted nearly six decades.


Family

Dinenage's second daughter Caroline (born 1971) is the
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Member of Parliament for
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(elected at the 2010 general election). She also served as the Digital and Culture Minister between February 2020 and September 2021.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dineage, Fred Living people 1942 births English television presenters British reporters and correspondents ITV regional newsreaders and journalists Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Birmingham, West Midlands People educated at The Portsmouth Grammar School