27-02-2023, 10:12 PM
(27-02-2023, 09:26 PM)Rolling News Wrote: Definitely the strongest line up for me on the channel was when I first started watching around 2006. So many good double headed partnerships and even the single headed slots were fronted by anchors who felt like they were talking to the viewer (!).
Mornings: Simon McCoy & Kate Silverton (then Carrie Gracie)
Lunchtime: Jane Hill & Matthew Amroliwala
Afternoons: Jon Sopel & Louise Minchin/Emily Maitlis
Five Hour: Huw Edwards or Gavin Esler
Evenings: Ben Brown & Joanna Gosling
Late Nights: Chris Eakin
Weekends: Maxine Mawhinney, Tim Wilcox, Nicholas Owen, Chris Lowe, Annita McVeigh, Peter Sissons
Overnight: Alastair Yates, Deborah Mackenzie, Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone
Couldn’t beat it.
Agreed, a top quality line-up.
Chris Lowe did weekend evenings for quite a while (for pretty much all of the noughties?) and was an old school presenter who took to rolling news rather better than some others. He had a nice friendly informality. Here was his final evening in 2009 with Annita McVeigh: youtu.be
And here with Joanna Gosling in 2003 (I loved this countdown with scenes from around the UK): youtu.be