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C. James Cameron (journalist) Sue Carpenter; Deirdre Cartwright; Lennox Cato; Steve Chalke; Paul Chaloner; Jason Chan Chi-san; Rangan Chatterjee; Carol Chell; Josh Chetwynd
10 February – London Weekend Television launches Gay Life, a late night regional series for gay viewers airing on Sundays. It is the first UK television series specifically aimed at a gay audience and is aired for two series in 1980 and 1981. [6] 19 February – Debut of the Scottish Television produced soap opera Take the High Road on ITV.
Fiona Armstrong – presenter for Border Television's regional news programme Lookaround; later a newscaster on ITN's News at Ten; Pamela Armstrong – ITN newscaster, 1983–1986. Toni Arthur – occasional presenter on TV-am during the 1980s. She is best known as a presenter on the BBC children's series Playschool and Play Away during the 1970s.
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
Despite TV-am's high-profile presenters, Breakfast Time proved more popular with viewers. [7] [3] Breakfast Time notably broadcast continuous live coverage of the Brighton hotel bombing at the Conservative Party conference in 1984. [3] TV-am, meanwhile, was castigated by the broadcasting authority for its poor coverage of the event. [8]
Upon its inception in 1964, Top of the Pops was presented by a team of disc jockeys in rotation: Alan Freeman, David Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.Savile presented the very first episode from Dickenson Road Studios in Manchester on 1 January 1964 and would continue as the longest-serving presenter until hosting his final show on 30 August 1984.
In 1973 Harty won a Pye Television Award for the Most Outstanding New Personality of the Year. [citation needed] He remained with ITV until 1980, [2] at which point his show moved to the BBC. In November 1980 he interviewed the model Grace Jones. Jones was nervous and distracted during the interview before a live studio audience and Harty found ...
C. Richard Cadell; Gavin Campbell (presenter) Charles Campion; Mike Carlson; Alan Carr; Jasper Carrott; Natalie Cassidy; Michael Casson; Andrew Castle; Lucie Cave