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Thus, when the newly launched Points West was given a ten-minute slot on 17 September 1962, it shared its slot with Wales Today. The launch of a dedicated BBC Wales television station in February 1964 finally allowed Points West to become a full-length regional news programme broadcast only to the West of England.
Vacher, a past winner of the Royal Television Society's 'Regional TV Personality of the Year in the West' award, [1] has also worked on various documentary specials as part of the regional current affairs series Close Up West. [1] Vacher presented Points West for the final time on Friday 9 December 2011.
Once qualified by the NCTJ (coming joint top in the UK) he joined the new independent radio station for Bristol and Bath, Radio West. Garmston has, since 1985, been the male anchor on BBC Points West, working alongside Alex Lovell, Amanda Parr and Imogen Sellers. On Sundays, he presents the regional opt-out of Sunday Politics, Sunday Politics ...
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She then joined BBC Points West as a video journalist, [3] and after joining the BBC graduate training scheme undertook postings in BBC local radio in Oxford and Birmingham, before moving back to television with the BBC News Channel. [1] She then became a reporter/presenter for BBC East Midlands Today. [3]
BBC West launched a regional television service from Bristol in September 1957. Initially broadcast from the Wenvoe transmitter on the outskirts of Cardiff, the geographical nature of the Wenvoe signal meant the first regional news bulletins were broadcast to both Wales and the West of England, sharing a ten-minute timeslot with News from Wales.
ITV News West Country is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country. It is broadcast from studios in Brislington , Bristol, with district reporters and camera crews based in newsrooms at Plymouth , Exeter , Truro , Taunton , Swindon and Gloucester .