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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.
He began his television career at Westward Television in the 1960s, [2] and then as an ATV sports reporter for their ATV Today programme in the early 1970s. [3] The continuing illness ATV Controller of Sports Billy Wright meant that Newbon and a small team, including Trevor East , had to carry out Wright's functions whilst covering up the ...
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.
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 ...
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Hall joined ATV Today in 1981 and went on to work for its successor, Central News, where he appeared regularly as a presenter until the early 2000s. Hall was also a contributor to Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday and Black Country Radio.