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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - Rolling News - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 10:52 AM)Andrew Wrote:  Is anyone able to give the full list of names of those above?

I wasn’t a fan of that era, it basically looks like they were presenting a double headed network bulletin rather than a news channel

From @itsrobert:
Anna Jones
Carrie Gracie
Chris Eakin
Gavin Esler
Chris Lowe
Martin Popplewell
Louise Minchin
John Nicholson
Jane Hill
Maxine Mawhinney
Philip Hayton
Valerie Sanderson

From @DrewF:
Fiona Armstrong & Julian Worricker
Luisa Baldini & Clive Myrie
Naga Munchetty & Matthew Amroliwala
Simon McCoy & Julia Somerville
Rachel Schofield & Jon Kay
Deborah Mackenzie
Ellie Crisell
Sue Thearle & Kasia Madeira
Matthew Price
Richard Lister
Anita McVeigh & Rajesh Mirchandani
Declan Curry

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - Chud - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 11:22 AM)Rolling News Wrote:  

(26-02-2023, 10:52 AM)Andrew Wrote:  Is anyone able to give the full list of names of those above?

I wasn’t a fan of that era, it basically looks like they were presenting a double headed network bulletin rather than a news channel

From @itsrobert:
Anna Jones
Carrie Gracie
Chris Eakin
Gavin Esler
Chris Lowe
Martin Popplewell
Louise Minchin
John Nicholson
Jane Hill
Maxine Mawhinney
Philip Hayton
Valerie Sanderson

From @DrewF:
Fiona Armstrong & Julian Worricker
Luisa Baldini & Clive Myrie
Naga Munchetty & Matthew Amroliwala
Simon McCoy & Julia Somerville
Rachel Schofield & Jon Kay
Deborah Mackenzie
Ellie Crisell
Sue Thearle & Kasia Madeira
Matthew Price
Richard Lister
Anita McVeigh & Rajesh Mirchandani
Declan Curry

Great photos, thanks. I didn’t know Jon Kay had presented on the news channel and I thought Declan had left by the time they moved to NBH.

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - Rolling News - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 11:32 AM)Chud Wrote:  

(26-02-2023, 11:22 AM)Rolling News Wrote:  From @itsrobert:
Anna Jones
Carrie Gracie
Chris Eakin
Gavin Esler
Chris Lowe
Martin Popplewell
Louise Minchin
John Nicholson
Jane Hill
Maxine Mawhinney
Philip Hayton
Valerie Sanderson

From @DrewF:
Fiona Armstrong & Julian Worricker
Luisa Baldini & Clive Myrie
Naga Munchetty & Matthew Amroliwala
Simon McCoy & Julia Somerville
Rachel Schofield & Jon Kay
Deborah Mackenzie
Ellie Crisell
Sue Thearle & Kasia Madeira
Matthew Price
Richard Lister
Anita McVeigh & Rajesh Mirchandani
Declan Curry

Great photos, thanks. I didn’t know Jon Kay had presented on the news channel and I thought Declan had left by the time they moved to NBH.

I think Declan had stopped presenting regular business updates by that point, but still continued to present Your Money on a Saturday morning for another year or so, I assume that's where the photo above is from. I remember quite liking the partnership he had with Maxine when she hadn't over to him at the start of the segment.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPa3AXSkSc 

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - Robinho02 - 26-02-2023

Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8427992.stm 

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - JamesWorldNews - 26-02-2023

#WeekendNewsClub, as was (unofficially).

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - qwerty123 - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 11:39 AM)Robinho02 Wrote:  Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8427992.stm 

Quite a good time to bring this up considering they’re currently in the process of making all of the women over 50 on the channel redundant (albeit in this case the BBC One team now includes multiple women whose current age would have considered them older at the time).

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - Kojak - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 11:39 AM)Robinho02 Wrote:  Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8427992.stm 

Julia also did a few BBC One weekend bulletins. I don't know about the others - I think maybe Zeinab might have done one or two? She was always much more of a World face anyway. And yes, Carole was a very regular presenter on the News Channel for some years.

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - interestednovice - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 01:38 PM)Kojak Wrote:  

(26-02-2023, 11:39 AM)Robinho02 Wrote:  Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8427992.stm 

Julia also did a few BBC One weekend bulletins. I don't know about the others - I think maybe Zeinab might have done one or two? She was always much more of a World face anyway. And yes, Carole was a very regular presenter on the News Channel for some years.

Zeinab frequently presented the 7pm World News Today edition that was broadcast on BBC Four, so was in a sense a prominent face for UK-viewers as well.

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - DrewF - 26-02-2023

(26-02-2023, 01:38 PM)Kojak Wrote:  

(26-02-2023, 11:39 AM)Robinho02 Wrote:  Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8427992.stm 

Julia also did a few BBC One weekend bulletins. I don't know about the others - I think maybe Zeinab might have done one or two? She was always much more of a World face anyway. And yes, Carole was a very regular presenter on the News Channel for some years.

That's right - Julia Somerville also did a few weekend Breakfast editions from N6, and Fiona Armstrong presented one Sunday edition with Roger Johnson from Salford.

Julie Somerville stopped presenting before the move to NBH, but Fiona Armstrong did present on the News Channel (and a couple of weekend lunchtime BBC One bulletins) from Studio E.

A couple more images for you, including another old News Channel face:

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RE: Remembering BBC News 24/BBC News Channel 1997-2023 - ginnyfan - 26-02-2023

Zeinab Badawi presented a late morning shift on the News Channel on July 5, 2010, according to my caps.

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