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ATV Today reached its peak during the 1970s when it was watched on a daily basis by an estimated three million viewers. [ 1 ] By now airing for 30 minutes from 6 pm, ATV Today was a popular mainstay of television in the Midlands, and alongside hard news coverage, it maintained its light-hearted and knockabout style of presenting.
Hobson was also a continuity announcer for ATV in Birmingham and was one of the presenters of the regional news programme ATV Today. After leaving ATV, Hobson co-presented Not For Women Only , [ 2 ] a regional magazine programme for TVS with Jill Cochrane who worked as a features reporter.
Derek Hobson – ATV continuity announcer and presenter of ATV Today during the 1970s; hosted quizzes, such as New Faces, That's My Dog and Jeopardy! Alison Holloway – worked initially as an announcer for Westward Television before joining HTV West, where she worked as an announcer and main presenter on HTV News during the 1980s.
Mal Walden, HSV-7 (1969–1987), ATV-10 (1987–2013) – 44 Years [Following Brian Henderson's retirement, until December 2013, Walden was the 'longest continually serving presenter on Australian television' and according to himself, had presented 12,000 bulletins].
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Launched on Friday 1 January 1982, replacing ATV Today, Central News was initially a pan-regional service based in Birmingham airing a 6pm programme on weeknights alongside shorter weekday bulletins after ITN's News at One and News at Ten. During the rest of the decade, the region was eventually broken up into three sub-regions, receiving their ...
She served as continuity announcer from the launch of the original Midlands ITV franchise holder, ATV. She was one of the four original announcers, the others being Arthur Adair, Peter Cockburn and Shaw Taylor. [3] She was the presenter of Tingha and Tucker, an ATV programme for children featuring two puppet Koalas, which ran from 1962 to 1970 ...
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