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At launch, Ulster Television employed a staff of 100 people including six presenters: Ivor Mills and Anne Gregg were chosen as the presenters of local magazine programme Roundabout, Adrienne McGuill, James Greene and Brian Durkin were the first continuity announcers, and former rugby union international Ernest Strathdee was recruited as the ...
UTV Live was introduced in January 1993 as a new name for Ulster Television's existing news programmes; Six Tonight, the station's half-hour evening news magazine, [6] and Ulster Newstime for shorter bulletins. [7] Following the introduction of the ITV Evening News in March 1999, the programme was brought forward by half an hour to start at 17:30.
Pamela Ballantine MBE (née Rolston, born 20 October 1958, Belfast) [1] [2] is a freelance Northern Irish television presenter, best known for her 27-year career at UTV. Broadcasting career [ edit ]
Brian Baird (1929–1998) was a newsreader that worked for the Northern Ireland television channel UTV during the 1970s and well into the 1980s, and a teacher and lecturer at Stranmillis Teacher Training College. [1] He also worked for a time for the BBC Radio in Belfast, and was a past president of the Ulster Society of Rugby Football Referees ...
Clark was among the original presenters on RTÉ Radio 2 in 1979 [4] and later presented on BBC Radio Ulster. [5] Other early television programmes Clark presented were Green Rock in 1979 with Caron Keating and Advice Line for the BBC. [6] Clark moved from presenting and reporting for BBC Northern Ireland's Inside Ulster [4] to Ulster Television ...
Here's a news bulletin, let's hear you read that.'" [3] Simmons was then offered a six-week trial as an announcer at Ulster Television. [7] When he started working at UTV, Simmons' job involved reading news and sports bulletins as well as introducing the channel's programmes, but he felt uneasy with newsreading.
Mitchell began his broadcasting career at the age of 17 at pirate radio station Carousel in Dundalk. [1] [3] He later worked as a BBC radio producer for the Walter Love show Day by Day and presented the early morning weekday show and Saturday lunchtime shows on Downtown Radio before he joined Ulster Television in 1987 as a continuity announcer and newsreader.
TV, Documentaries, Travel writing and Radio Rose Neill (born 1958) is a Northern Ireland news broadcaster, currently working for UTV . At the beginning of her career she was the youngest newsreader in the United Kingdom, and she is the longest-serving newscasters in the British Isles, having worked for 47 consecutive years newscasting .