Steve Gaisford is a British news presenter working primarily for

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and on occasions

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. In September 2009 Gaisford launched new company Chloros which focuses on using well known faces as online web presenters.

Broadcasting career

Gaisford's on-screen career began when he became

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's first weekend sports presenter before moving on to work for

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and

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's ''

London Tonight ''ITV News London'' is a British television news service broadcast on both ITV London and the ITV Hub. It is produced by ITN. History London News Network The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993 as ''London Tonight'', after Carlton Te ...

'' programme. Gaisford worked for nine years at

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, and is best known for anchoring the weekend

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programme with Emma Crosby from October 2005 through to his departure from the channel in April 2007. He presented news and sports programmes for the

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network initially appearing in 1998 on

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. Gaisford has covered many breaking news stories including the

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, The death of

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and the

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and from the world of sport including the live media circus that was

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signing for

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. After leaving

Gaisford became a regular face on ITV presenting the '' ITV News at 5:30'' and still anchors

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's ''

'' weekend news programmes worked alongside former Sky colleague Barbara Serra on

. Gaisford also hosted 'The Breakfast Show' each weekday morning alongside

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on the

Setanta Sports News Setanta Sports News was a television channel from Virgin Media Television and Setanta Sports. The channel launched on 29 November 2007.

channel until the channel closed in June 2009.

Personal life

Gaisford is the brother of Good Morning Britain's chief correspondent

Richard Gaisford Richard Gaisford is a British journalist for ITV. He has worked on ITV Breakfast programmes since 2000 where he started as the Chief Correspondent of GMTV. He later joined GMTV's successor '' Daybreak'' in 2010 in the same role. He has continue ...

External links

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