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During 1982, Report West was relaunched as HTV News. For 28 years, the main anchor of HTV West's news programmes was former TWW reporter Bruce Hockin, who went on to become one of the longest serving presenters of any ITV news programme. He retired from the station in May 1996, shortly after his 60th birthday. [1]
1970. 6 April – HTV starts broadcasting in colour, [1] initially only from the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales and from this day the station becomes known on the air as HTV. 30 May – A separate HTV West service is launched on UHF from the Mendip transmitter [2] which coincided with a new full-evening news programme for the region called Report West.
Annie St John – announcer for HTV West, Tyne Tees and LWT during the 1980s, and later a main presenter on HTV News West. She died from a drugs overdose in 1990. Angus Scott – regular sports presenter for HTV during the 1980s and 1990s: he frequently presented sports news on HTV News. He is the brother of Steve Scott.
ITV Wales and West, previously known as Harlech Television (HTV), was an ITV franchisee in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2013, licensed to broadcast by the regulator Ofcom.
She was a reporter-presenter, then, anchoring HTV News. [citation needed] Holloway remained with the station through most of the 1980s, combining her news duties with presenting many other local programmes for HTV West, including the Good Neighbour Show and the networked Animal Express. [citation needed]
Sam Mason (born 1968) is a British radio and television presenter. Mason began her broadcasting career in the late 1980s as a continuity announcer for HTV West and presented the station's overnight strand Night Club (also broadcast on HTV Wales). [ 1 ]
St John first made her name on television in 1978 as a hostess on the first two series of the networked YTV game show 3-2-1, before joining HTV West in 1981 as a continuity announcer and newsreader. Her popularity in the Westcountry was as such that viewers launched a Save Our Annie campaign when she left the station in 1983 to join Tyne Tees ...
She was one of the co-presenters of HTV News (West) [3] until Autumn 2001, when she was replaced by Jenny Hull. [4] After about fifteen years with HTV West, Eugene was increasingly working as a reporter and presenter on shows such as the Good Neighbour Show and the Vegetarian Cookery Show, specialising in community interest and social action ...