"series such as ""Your Sport"" focusing on sport in local communities. Upon launch, Channel 5's programming followed a strict schedule with the intention that viewers could tune in and always know what to expect. Major features of the Channel 5's early scheduling structure included daily soap opera ""Family Affairs"" at 6.30pm, a nightly news broadcast at 8.30pm, presented by Kirsty Young. That was followed by a film at 9pm every night and ""The Jack Docherty Show"", a comedy chat show. Daytime programmes included ""Sunset Beach"", the American soap opera, Leeza Gibbons' chat show, ""Leeza"" and ""5 News Early"". Weekend programming"
"Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News. After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2002 where she co-hosted ""Breakfast"" until 2005, when she became the host of the ""Six O'Clock News"". In October 2007, Kaplinsky was recruited to help relaunch Five (now known as Channel 5), reportedly for the highest fee ever paid to a UK newsreader, where she presented a new look, retitled ""Five News"
"Barbara Mandell Allada Barbara Grenville-Wells (15 July 1920 – 25 August 1998, known professionally as Barbara Mandell) was a British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer. She became a household name during the mid-1950s as the United Kingdom's first female newsreader after she was recruited to present the Midday News on the newly launched Independent Television in 1955. Mandell was born in London, England, but was raised in South Africa after her family relocated to that country in 1924. Her father was the deputy editor of South Africa's ""Rand Daily Mail"" and Mandell followed him into journalism, working for the"
"did not go to work and she eventually resigned and took responsibility for the inaccurate report. She also apologized to the Hultmans for the error she committed. After one-month hiatus, she then moved to the reopened ABC-5 (later renamed to TV5) and became its chief operating officer. As an executive In ABC-5, she was no longer involve in the daily news work routine but she did still present the late night news. She stayed for five years on ABC-5 and then, took a break in the limelight in May 1997. In October of that same year, she was tapped by"
"Desmond in October 2010. She was unveiled as the new face of Channel 5 News in November 2010. In an interview with This Is Money she reflected on trying to crack the TV industry whilst growing up in the East Midlands. ""Sometimes I felt like I was leading a double life. I would go off and audition for a cool presenting job, then the next day I would be back at New Look. It was hard."" She has described how she would work as a retail assistant by day, and record online videos in the fitting room after the shop"
"switched from radio to television when she was offered a position at Network Ten. She started out reporting a wide range of stories from entertainment news to major national news stories and eventually began court reporting regularly. She occasionally filled in as a presenter on Perth's ""Ten News at Five"" and on 4 July 2005, she was appointed as permanent news anchor for the show, which was broadcast from Network Ten's Sydney studio TEN at Pyrmont, New South Wales. She was a main co-anchor of ""Ten Eyewitness News"" and also filled in on the national morning and weekend news bulletins"
"Kirsty Young Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November 1968) is a Scottish television and radio presenter. She is best known as one of the original newsreaders of ""5 News"" on Channel 5, particularly because of its unique presentation style for the time that featured newsreaders standing up, or sitting on a desk rather than behind it. She presented ""5 News"" from its launch in 1997 until 2007, only leaving briefly in 2000 for ITV News before returning in 2002. Since 2006 she has been the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ""Desert Island Discs"" and previously presented ""Crimewatch"" on BBC"
"anchor Emma Crosby announced she was leaving ""5 News"" after four years to have a baby. Sian Williams replaced her on 4 January 2016 after months of interim anchors from Channel 5's team of on-screen journalists. On 31 October 2016, a new look for the ""5 News"" set was shown for the first time, featuring the shape of a 5 within the desk. There is also a new look for weather, now associated with the Met Office. Following the departure of weathergirl Sian Welby, former GMTV weather presenter Clare Nasir took over the role on Monday 31 October 2016. ""5"
"in 1951. She read English and American studies at the University of East Anglia, where she was approached by MI5 to join the Secret Service. She declined. Scott trained on D C Thomson’s ""The Sunday Post"" in Dundee, Scotland once lauded in the ""Guinness Book of Records"" as having the ""highest per capita readership in the world"", before becoming press officer for the Highlands and Islands Tourist board on the Isle of Bute. She made her television debut on the nightly news programme for the regional ITV station Grampian Television, ""North Tonight"" in Aberdeen at the height of the North"
"to write Queen Coal: Women of the Miners, published in 2005, derived from her experiences covering the strike. She was the youngest female national news reporter and the youngest person to present the Today Programme on Radio 4; presented the Six O'Clock News on BBC 1; PM on Radio 4; Newsbeat on Radio 1 and World TV News. In 1987 she was the only reporter to broadcast live from the disaster scene after getting onto the wreck of the Herald of Free Enterprise when it became semi-submerged off Zeebrugge. While at the BBC, in her role as a reporter, she"
"and made nuisance phone calls. Julia Somerville Julia Mary Fownes Somerville, Lady Dixon (born 14 July 1947) is an English television news reader and reporter who has worked for the BBC and ITN. Somerville was born in Wells, Somerset, the granddaughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville (1882-1949) of Dinder House in Somerset. She was educated at Airthrie Preparatory School in Cheltenham and Headington School in Oxford, graduating (1969) from the University of Sussex (BA English Literature). After graduation, Somerville joined publisher IPC, working on ""Homes and Gardens"" magazine, a Women's Journal, the PR section of ""Woman's"
"Sara Nathan (broadcaster) Sara Catherine Nathan (born 16 February 1956) is a former British broadcaster who now sits on the boards of a number of public bodies. She was educated at Wimbledon High School, Cambridge University and Stanford University which she attended on a Harkness Fellowship. Her college at Cambridge was New Hall and she was vice-president of Cambridge Union. She was a BBC journalist for 15 years on ""Newsnight"", ""Breakfast Time"" and ""The Money Programme"". She was on the launch team for Radio 5 Live and was the first editor of its morning programme. After that she became Britain's"
"two adult children. Sara Nathan (broadcaster) Sara Catherine Nathan (born 16 February 1956) is a former British broadcaster who now sits on the boards of a number of public bodies. She was educated at Wimbledon High School, Cambridge University and Stanford University which she attended on a Harkness Fellowship. Her college at Cambridge was New Hall and she was vice-president of Cambridge Union. She was a BBC journalist for 15 years on ""Newsnight"", ""Breakfast Time"" and ""The Money Programme"". She was on the launch team for Radio 5 Live and was the first editor of its morning programme. After that"
"in Leicestershire. Later in 2001 she was a runner up in the ""Miss India UK"" competition. In 2002 she started work at BBC Asian Network Radio where she read the news bulletins and was soon made the reporter for the East Midlands. She then moved to BBC East Midlands Today, where she presented the breakfast, lunchtime and weekend news bulletins, and filed news reports. In December 2005, she joined Five News, claiming to be the youngest national news reader. After a year with Sky, she returned to the BBC to present the BBC Politics Show in the East Midlands. In"
"in Birmingham, she took a nine-month contract dancing on the QE2. At the age of 25, she then switched career and retrained by taking a National Council for the Training of Broadcasting Journalists course at Portsmouth, where she graduated with a distinction and won a prize for Best Documentary. Joanne started out working in the news departments of local radio stations before being hired by Reuters to work on breakfast news bulletins for Virgin Radio. From here, she switched from radio to television, despite having no previous experience, and joined the infamous cable channel, L!VE TV in London as a"
"graduated from the Girls' Latin School and Emmanuel College and began her career as a book reviewer at ""The Boston Herald"". She was hired in 1947 by ""The Washington Star"" and began her career as a journalist, a path she was inspired to take by reading ""Jane Arden"" comic strips. She rose to prominence as their reporter covering the McCarthy hearings in 1954, portraying McCarthy as a typical neighborhood Irish bully. McGrory won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1975, for her articles about the Watergate scandal. The day after the ""Star"" went out of business in 1981, she went"
"and their baby son. Barbara Serra Barbara Serra (born 19 August 1974) is an Italian-born British-based broadcast journalist and TV newsreader. Serra studied at the London School of Economics, before becoming a journalist. She began her career with the BBC, where she worked as a researcher for Radio 4's ""Today programme"". She moved to Sky News in 2003 as a reporter, working on both domestic and international stories. She also worked as a news presenter for Five News. When doing so, she became the first newsreader in British history to read the news in her second language on terrestrial television."
"""News 91"", ""News 92"" and ""News 93"" over the three years that it was broadcast. In 1994, Ruscoe was the first presenter hired by BBC Radio 5 Live and presented the afternoon show for five years. In 1999, she joined Channel 4 to become the first woman to present cricket on TV, and was named Cosmopolitan Inspirational Woman of the Year. Since 1999, Ruscoe has written for the ""Daily Telegraph"". In July 2003, she joined BBC Radio 2, taking over from Lynn Parsons on the weekend overnight slot. She remained there until July 2004. , she runs her own media"
"English Channel led René Caudron, her employer, to send her to South America to demonstrate his planes, where she made her Andes crossing, assisted, she later said, by a tip relayed to her from a medium. Later in her life she became involved in leftist political causes, and eventually became part of the French Resistance. She was born in 1895 in Arcueil, outside Paris, the youngest of seven, to Belgian émigrés. She developed an independent, assertive streak in her childhood, as it was difficult to get her father's attention. In the house she was known as ""the little terror."" ""No"
"Barbara Serra Barbara Serra (born 19 August 1974) is an Italian-born British-based broadcast journalist and TV newsreader. Serra studied at the London School of Economics, before becoming a journalist. She began her career with the BBC, where she worked as a researcher for Radio 4's ""Today programme"". She moved to Sky News in 2003 as a reporter, working on both domestic and international stories. She also worked as a news presenter for Five News. When doing so, she became the first newsreader in British history to read the news in her second language on terrestrial television. Serra notably moved to"
"and study to be an actress. Vivien Creegor's website Vivien Creegor Vivien Creegor (born 1957) is an English television newscaster. From 1989 until 2006, she was one of the principal news readers on Sky News. Creegor started her career as a secretary with the BBC and eventually became a production assistant for BBC Radio Drama and an abridger for the BBC Radio 4 programme, ""A Book at Bedtime"". She became a newsreader on British television on BBC1 and BBC2 and on radio on BBC Radio 4: she was a main presenter on Points West during much of the 1980s. In"
"four mystery novels. Elsa began her career in 1958, at the ""Sydney Daily Telegraph"" while studying journalism at Sydney University. With the byline Elsa Barker (she adopted Barker as her professional name because Aeschbacher, was difficult for people to pronounce, spell, or remember.) She also reported for the ""London Star"" and the ""London Sunday Express"". By 1961 she decided to return to Sydney and for the home journey accepted the position of press officer for the S/S ""Canberra""'s maiden voyage with Pacific ports of call. Subsequently, she was a regional editor for the Australian Broadcasting's ""TV Weekly"" where she raised"
"in 1988 as a freelance producer in the Paris Bureau straight from university, before becoming ITN's 'North of England' producer in 1991. In 1993, she joined the ITN Bureau in Washington as a producer. In 1991, she competed in the Paris to Peking Offroad 4x4 Car Rally. In 2000, Turness was Deputy Editor of Five News before being promoted to Editor in 2002. At Five News she famously did away with desks in the studio, thereby introducing the concept of 'perching presenters'. During 2002 she worked on Channel 4's as Producer before quitting after six months to rejoin ITV News"
"home at the ITN building. The new studio and set included the desk in the shape of a 5. Until March 2009, Channel 5 had a dedicated team of weather presenters. Sky News weather presenters then provided forecasts for the channel. This changed in November 2010 when Sian Welby joined Channel 5 as weather presenter, with former BBC and ITV meteorologist Kirsty McCabe providing cover. As of October 2016, Channel 5 Weather is in partnership with the Met Office, with former GMTV weather presenter Clare Nasir fronting forecasts. Bella Shah Polly Whitehouse Sangeeta Kandola Katherine Nash Dominic Reynolds Leyla Hayes"
"the responsibilities divided up among four other executives. After studying English Literature at King's College London and taking a secretarial course back in Oxford, she joined the staff of the BBC in 1985, initially working as a secretary in the radio drama department. Two years later, she made the switch into television, working as a floor manager on dramas such as ""EastEnders"" and ""Bergerac"". Later that same year she was promoted to assistant script editor, working on the BBC's popular medical drama ""Casualty"". She quickly caught the eye of producer David M. Thompson, who promoted her to act as script"
"Manchester as a newsreader and presenter/reporter on the regional news magazine programme, and she went on to become one of the few women to produce/direct the flagship current affairs programme ""World in Action"". In 1981, she joined Channel 4 Television as the first Commissioning Editor for multi-cultural programming, one of the priorities of the new channel, where she commissioned a range of programmes to reflect the diversity of Britain's minority ethnic communities. Her work at Channel 4 has been described by Farrukh Dhondy as ""revolutionary"": ""She ditched the mission to complain and ran on the channel, among a diversity of"
"Emma Crosby Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a British television newsreader and journalist. Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked at Sky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programme ""Sunrise"", along with various other programmes on the channel. In 2009, Crosby joined ITV to co-present ""GMTV"", which she hosted until the show was replaced by ""Daybreak"" the following year. She co-hosted ""GMTV"" with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard two or three days a week in rotation with Kate Garraway. Crosby then joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on ""5 News"" until 2015. She"
"Mary Malcolm Helen Mary Malcolm (15 March 1918 – 13 October 2010) was one of the first two regular female announcers on BBC Television after World War II, and was a household name in the United Kingdom during the 1950s. The daughter of Sir Ian Malcolm and Jeanne Langtry (1881–1964) and granddaughter of Victorian socialite actress Lillie Langtry, who was the mistress of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Mary was brought up in Poltalloch, Argyll, Scotland. Until the age of 16, she attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London. She began her television career"
"prejudices"" commented Channel 5 head of news Chris Shaw. On 2 August 2010, ""Five News at 7"" was reinstated, after a change of ownership of the channel. ""Live from Studio Five"" was cut to 30 minutes as a result. On 14 October 2010, Natasha Kaplinsky announced that she was leaving Channel 5 at the end of 2010, having spent much of her three years at the broadcaster on maternity leave. In February 2011, Emma Crosby was appointed as Kaplinsky's replacement and presenter of the 7pm bulletin, with Barbet hosting the 5pm edition. The service was relaunched as ""5 News"" on"
"Fatima Manji Fatima Manji (born 1985) is an English television journalist and newsreader, working for ""Channel 4 News"". Manji became Britain's first hijab-wearing TV newsreader in March 2016. Manji was born in Peterborough in 1985. She lived in Netherton, Peterborough and was educated at Jack Hunt School She was active at the city's Burton Street Mosque and later studied Politics at the London School of Economics. She ""made a really informed career decision at the age of eight. I wanted to be where history is made, I wanted to be in the centre of things"", she told ""The Guardian"" in"
"partner at litigation firm Williams & Connolly.[1] Mary Louise Kelly Mary Louise Kelly is an American broadcaster and author. She anchors the iconic daily news show All Things Considered on National Public Radio (NPR), and previously covered national security at the network. Prior to NPR she reported for CNN and the BBC in London. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and other publications. Her first novel, Anonymous Sources, was published in 2013, her second, The Bullet, in 2015. Kelly graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in"
"Radio, and briefly reading the news on Newsnight on BBC2. When the BBC chose to feature the midnight Shipping Forecast as part of an evening of programmes devoted to radio on BBC2 in 1993, Laurie MacMillan was the duty announcer on BBC Radio 4 who read the forecast. She died on 8 October 2001 in Okehampton, Devon from breast cancer. Laurie Macmillan Laurie Macmillan (10 May 1947 – 8 October 2001) was a BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer born in Aberdeen on the east coast of Scotland. Educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, Monmouthshire and then at"
"graduating, she worked as an assistant and researcher to Senate Democrats, at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington. She joined the BBC full-time at the end of 1991. After completing the BBC journalism training programme, Hill joined BBC Radio 5 Live at the station's launch, remaining there as a producer for 18 months. She moved into television following completion of the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme. She went on to join BBC Radio Berkshire and ""South Today"" as a presenter, before moving later to national news. When BBC News launched its new 24-hour channel in November 1997, Hill joined, and"