Regional telly legends
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Next year will mark Fred Dinenage,s 50th year in television and unbelievably he has still not been made a Sir so what better time to give him a knighthood what a legend IMO
Do you think Dineage should host Countdown he'd be perfect IMO
The recently deceased Derek Batey did such a lot for Border TV he was there at its inception in 1961 and stayed there until he retired in 1988
he even spent his last ten years in television sitting on the company,s board as well as fronting his quiz Mr And Mrs
Mike Neville was a legend in North East England excellent newsreader now sadly retired
Richard Whiteley was also brilliant and still very much missed
for the first 13 years of Countdown,s run he continued to front the local news on Yorkshire TV as well as the national job hence Twice Nightly Whiteley
Bob Warman from Central is to TV news in the Midlands what Ken Barlow is to Corrie
Shaw Taylor was the original real life TV crime buster always reminding us at the end of each Police 5 to
"Keep em' Peeled"
Do you think Dineage should host Countdown he'd be perfect IMO
The recently deceased Derek Batey did such a lot for Border TV he was there at its inception in 1961 and stayed there until he retired in 1988
he even spent his last ten years in television sitting on the company,s board as well as fronting his quiz Mr And Mrs
Mike Neville was a legend in North East England excellent newsreader now sadly retired
Richard Whiteley was also brilliant and still very much missed
for the first 13 years of Countdown,s run he continued to front the local news on Yorkshire TV as well as the national job hence Twice Nightly Whiteley
Bob Warman from Central is to TV news in the Midlands what Ken Barlow is to Corrie
Shaw Taylor was the original real life TV crime buster always reminding us at the end of each Police 5 to
"Keep em' Peeled"
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Yorkshire's finest!
Other mainstays were the late Andrew Gardner on Thames News, Anna Maria Ashe on LWT News and Alastair Stewart on London Tonight.
Helen interviewed my son when he was 10 and told him he was gorgeous, he was over the moon that someone so famous liked him.
I worked with Paul Lavers at Ideal World TV but my memory of him is the way he promoted Prisoner Cell Block H on Anglia and his rivalry with Victor Lewis Smith when he was on QVC.
Hugh Scully,Angela Rippon, Jill Dando BBC Plymouth
Bruce Parker, BBC Southampton
Keith Macklin,Stuart Hall BBC Manchester
John Toye of STV who killed himself after he was sacked
Lucky Lad !
Three cheers for Mr Midnight
2 mins 55 sec in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSIJZ9p6Jfc
How about Patrick Anthony as a another Anglia TV legend??
As far as ITV goes I think people are harking back to the days when the ITV regions were genuinely regional rather than just a franchise of a national company
Anglia / Thames / Southern etc, were never autocue, and the presenters were 'real' people with a personality, something that has been dumped by both the 'new' ITV and the BBC
(He did start his broadcasting career at the old Radio Birmingham, before going to ATV/Central!)
John Toye was my first thought. I hadn;t realised he had killed himself, I hadn't actually realised he was dead. But he killed himself over 20 years ago now. :eek:
The other I thought of was his 'rival' on BBC Scotland, Mary Marquis, who seems to be very much still alive.
Jack Hargreaves, is a name and face I always associate with Southern Television.
Finally, the Westward's greatest star: Gus Honeybun!
Jack Hargreaves is generally thought to be the inspiration for the Fast Show character of Bob Fleming
I'll also add Bill Steele to the regional news legends.
Also Sid Waddell although he didn't do that much in the NE AFAIK but did stuff in Yorkshire and then nationwide with the darts.
Good call:D
Also from Granada, Fred Talbot
Nick Owen for news is on the same level as Shipmans care for the elderly.