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Newsreader

News presenter, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet

News aggregator, a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of a web feed


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1975 in Irish television

October – Geraldine McInerney becomes the first female newsreader on RTÉ Television.

Afternoon Live

Mark Longhurst, Anna Jones, Lorna Dunkley, Martin Stanford, Steve Dixon, Martin Popplewell, Chris Roberts, Emma Crosby, Anna Botting and Allan King have all presented the show when Burley has been absent.

Alan Dedicoat

He then became the newsreader for Vanessa Feltz and on Sundays, but following a reshuffle of newsreaders in late 2012, he currently reads the news on weekdays between 10am and 5pm.

Alison Holloway

Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Holloway began her television career at the age of 17 as a continuity announcer and newsreader at Westward Television.

Allison Langdon

In early 2007, she was appointed as newsreader on Today, filling-in for Georgie Gardner while she was on maternity leave during the first half of 2007.

Amber Sherlock

Upon her return to Sydney, Sherlock went to work for Commonwealth Securities as a financial journalist, after which she took a position as a newsreader with Sky News Australia.

Anne-Sophie Lapix

She also presents the Sunday evening magazine program Sept à Huit with Harry Roselmack (who substitutes for TF1 newsreader Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.)

Bedham

More recent notable residents have included the newsreader Reginald Bosanquet and the advertising guru Paul Arden.

CBC News Magazine

Lorne Greene, then an announcer and newsreader for the CBC, was narrator for the series in its early years.

Dalriada School

Martyn Lewis, presenter, foreign correspondent and newsreader for BBC and ITN.

Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton is also the birthplace of award-winning artist Richard T. Slone and the town in which Sky News presenter Steve Dixon and Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson grew up and attended school.

Danielle Steel's 'Palomino'

Danielle Steel's 'Palomino' is a 1992 television movie based on a novel by Danielle Steel about the romance between a TV newsreader and a cowboy.

Eltham High School

The school has produced Tour de France winning cyclist Cadel Evans, footballer Peter Moore, Victorian cricketer Lloyd Mash, Seven Network newsreader Jennifer Adams, actor and musician Ben Mendelsohn, actress Emily Browning, Australian actress and cinema icon Kerry Armstrong, and Australian comedian and radio / television personality Merrick Watts of Merrick & Rosso.

Geoff Collyer

He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders.

Geraint Howells

They had two children: Gaenor, a newsreader with the BBC World Service, born in 1961 and Mari born in 1965.

Helen Lederer

Lederer played various roles, including that of a newsreader linking spoof headlines into clips which acted as punchlines, and a drunk Sloane who performed a monologue in each episode from a wine bar.

Jennifer Clulow

Born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, Clulow worked as a continuity announcer and newsreader for Westward Television from the late 1970s until 1981.

Jonty Messer

Jonty Messer is a British journalist and newsreader employed by ITV West Country.

Killinaskully

In episode six, entitled "The Funeral", RTÉ newsreader Ken Hammond and sports broadcasters George Hamilton and Jimmy Magee visit the village.

Lee Lin Chin

In 1992, she starred in a minor role as a newsreader in the independent Australian movie Resistance by Hugh Keays-Byrne.

Lelia Doolan

She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.

Let's Face the Music and Dance

It is also used in Pennies from Heaven, where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon.

London Fire Brigade

Red Watch: The former ITN newsreader Gordon Honeycombe became friendly with Neil Wallington while he was a station officer at Paddington fire station.

Louisa Preston

Preston joined the BBC as a stand in newsreader for Moira Stuart on BBC Breakfast in September 2005, but left the programme when news reading duties were left to the main presenters.

Louise Botting

Her marriage to the writer and explorer Douglas Botting led to a career break as she gave birth to her two daughters, Kate and Anna Botting (now a newsreader with Sky News).

Mary Delahunty

In the late 1980s, Delahunty—then the chief newsreader for the ABC in Victoria—was parodied by comedian Jean Kittson on the popular TV comedy series The Big Gig, where Kittson portrayed a snobbish, acid-tongued announcer called Veronica Glenhuntly (whose surname was taken from that of the elite Melbourne suburb).

Mawhinney

Maxine Mawhinney, newsreader on BBC News, the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel

Michael Miles

He then travelled to Australia, before moving on to Singapore as a newsreader, leaving only days before the island was invaded by the Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Mrinal Chatterjee

He worked in AIR and Doordarshan in several capacities- as Announcer and Newsreader for over 7 years, besides doing various programs.

Northsound Radio

Robin Galloway - later became a continuity announcer and newsreader for Grampian Television.

Phil Sayer

Previously he was a newsreader on BBC North West Tonight and a presenter on several radio stations, including Piccadilly Radio, Red Rose Radio, BBC GMR (now BBC Radio Manchester) and Smooth FM.

Pineapple Dance Studios

With narration by ex-BBC newsreader Michael Buerk, it was a documentary that included impromptu dancing and the promotional tag-line: "Pineapple Dance Studios: Where careers are made, dreams are broken, bitching is an Olympic sport and everyone is fabulous!".

Roland Buerk

He is the son of former BBC newsreader and current BBC Radio 4 presenter Michael Buerk.

Rosemary Church

She previously worked as a reporter and newsreader for Australia's ABC-TV news and current affairs.

Shaun Brown

On 21 August 2007, it was reported that veteran SBS TV newsreader Mary Kostakidis had walked out on the network after nearly 20 years at the helm as a news presenter.

Tahu Hole

Up to that point, live news broadcasts had been in audio with the announcer/newsreader speaking over a still picture of Big Ben.

Tony Eastley

From 2001 to 2003 he was the newsreader of the NSW ABC-TV 7pm news, having taken over from long-standing newsreader Richard Morecroft.

Tony Guida

In 2005 Guida supplied the voice of the Newsreader in the Activision PC videogame The Movies.

Tracey Challenor

In November 2006, it was announced that the Nine Network's Today news presenter Sharyn Ghidella would replace Challenor as the weekend newsreader of the 6pm news in Brisbane.

Tyler-Jane Mitchel

Mitchel has also worked as radio newsreader at Auckland’s George FM and has performed in commercials, most notably a 2007 Elave skin care product commercial where she appeared fully nude.

Vanessa Downing

She is best known however for being an original cast member of the television soap opera Home and Away at the age of 32, playing a role many years her senior as foster mother Pippa Fletcher, replacing Carole Willesee at short notice, the wife of newsreader Mike Willesee, who was originally cast as Pippa, with the casting news hitting the headlines, at the publicity launch of the soap.

Yigal Ravid

Before returning as an editor and newsreader for Kol Yisrael in 1993, Yigal worked for Israel Radio International as a journalist while undergoing further educational studies in America.


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