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BBC London Plus
''BBC 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 ''BBC 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'', then '' Sixty Minutes'') although since the start of 1982 the teatime programme had been called ''BBC 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 ''BBC 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 ''Financial Report'' and the Saturday teatime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationwide (TV Series)
Nationwide may refer to: Organisations * Nationwide Building Society, a UK co-operative financial institution * Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, an insurance company based in Columbus, Ohio, US * Nationwide Asset Services, a debt settlement company in the US * Nationwide Airlines (other), several airlines Sport * Nationwide Series, or Nationwide formerly the Busch Series and now Xfinity Series, was an auto race series sponsored by the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company * Nationwide Championship, (1991–2000), a golf tournament in Georgia, US * Nationwide Tour (2003–2011), the former name of a second-tier men's golf tour * English Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ..., formerly called the Nationwide League * Kenyan Nationwide League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Michelmore
Guy Alford Michelmore (born August 1957) is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter. Early life Guy Alford Michelmore was born in August 1957. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television News In London
Television (TV) is a telecommunications, telecommunication media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of signal transmission, transmission. Television is a mass media, mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 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: Audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Regional News Shows
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. 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, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Wellings
Robert Arthur Wellings (1 April 1934 – 1 March 2022) was a British television presenter best known for his work on the BBC's current affairs programme '' Nationwide''. Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, he later became a prominent figure in British television during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Wellings was born on 1 April 1934 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, to Louise (née Dalzell) and Francis Wellings. His father, a geologist for the Iraq Petroleum Company, hailed from Shropshire, while his mother was originally from Texas. During his early childhood, the family lived in the Far East before relocating to the United States at the onset of the Second World War. While in the U.S., Wellings attended an American military school. In 1947, following the war, the family settled in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Wellings continued his education at Downside School in Somerset, where he boarded. After completing his schooling, he served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of ... [...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 Cinematogra ... [...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. Stapleton 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 Primary School, Hulme Grammar School, Oldham, and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester, where he took "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 and Patricroft Journal''. He was later indentured to ... [...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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English former broadcaster, journalist and author, born in Yorkshire. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper ''Varsity (Cambridge), Varsity''. At Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, in later life describing himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined the BBC in 1972, initially at BBC Radio Brighton, relocating to London in 1977. In following years, he worked on ''Tonight (1975 TV programme), Tonight'' and ''Panorama (British TV programme), Panorama'', becoming a newsreader for the ''BBC Six O'Clock News'' and later a presenter on ''Breakfast Time (British TV programme), Breakfast Time'' and ''University Challenge''. In 1989, he became a presenter for the BBC Two programme ''Newsnight'', interviewing many political figures. Paxman became known for his forthright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Mitchell
Linda Mitchell is an American artist. Born in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ..., 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 2024 Secrets, Thomas Deans, Atlanta 2023 Bangkok 2023 (Online & Physical Exhibition), Art in Embassies, US Department of State 2021 Esprits des Animaux, Mason Fine Art. Atlanta, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Meacock
Lucy Meacock is an English journalist and broadcaster. She is best known for her work in the North West of England as a main anchor of the ITV regional news programme, ''Granada Reports'' between 1988 and 2024. Early life and education Meacock was born in South Wales and grew up there before she 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. Career Meacock started her journalism career at the ''Chester Chronicle''. She went on to work with BBC Radio Newcastle, before switching to television in 1984, joining the Tyne Tees newsroom as a reporter, and later, presenter of the regional news programme '' Northern Life''. She later joined BBC South East in 1986 as a presenter for ''BBC London Plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
