27-06-2024, 10:17 PM
(27-06-2024, 09:55 PM)James2001 Wrote: Robert Kee did the 74 elections then, when Alastair had buggered off to the BBC. Before doing TV-am's coverage in 83.
Burnet was back for 79, of course, which titles aside appears to be absent from the two trailers (even got a glimpse or two of the 1970 election)
Peter Sissons handled the breakfast shift, according to the TV Times.
transdiffusion.org
Robert Kee had made his mark on First Report (later News at One) with a style that doesn’t really seem that far removed from Tom Bradby on NaT nowadays.
Richard Lindley’s “And Finally?” book (which in hindsight appeared to predict doom for ITN in the ITV plc era, but was fortunately wide off the mark) talks about when he got into trouble for going on air with the words “Tricky Dicky strikes again!” during Watergate.