He also featured on A Song for Europe and the annual Children in Need telethon. An arc of circles also adorned the top right corner. The two stations were managed by Trident Television during the 1970s, and the two stations merged again in 1992 to form Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television. In 1996, Neville was approached by Tyne Tees Television and offered a chance to return to the commercial station. Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converted warehouse in City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, remaining in the city until July 2005 when Tyne Tees moved to smaller studios in Gateshead. You can hear Neil with Diane, 10am - 1pm weekdays and on Saturdays 9am - 11am, and 11am 12pm with Lisa. In 1993 the MP Ann Clwyd described Tyne Tees as having been "stripped of any meaningful identity since its take over by Yorkshire TV" and Ian Ritchie, Managing Director at Tyne Tees, left the company over a widely publicised disagreement with the Yorkshire-Tyne Tees board over what he saw as an unacceptable drive to centralise the company, including the complete closure of all non-news operations at Newcastle and a proposal to close the City Road studios. [30] The merger led to the culling of staff. From 6 September 1976, Tyne Tees' longest running news programme Northern Life aired with notable presenters including Paul Frost and Pam Royle. "YORKSHIRE'S NEW BROOM TURNS GLOOM INTO BOOM". [78] After 1,098 editions and more than five years on air, the final show was broadcast in March 1964. [87] However, not all of the station's output has been successful. "[45] (Scottish, which doesn't trail any of the network shows under any ITV1 branding, Grampian, Ulster and Channel, each kept their own names but used their own versions of the new look. Hoodwinked into ad libbing for seven minutes because a technical fault had delayed the start of Wogan, he characteristically took the deception in good part. Pam said: "My colleagues have been looking through the archives and have found some great footage from the past. @itvtynetees. Its been a busy day.. Yorkshire and Tyne Tees then came under Trident's ownership on 1 January 1974. Meacock started her career at the Chester Chronicle. From the late 1970s, it produced series such as The Paper Lads, Quest of Eagles, Barriers and Andy Robson. Mike Neville, North East TV broadcaster - obituary - The Telegraph Since then I have travelled with her to Manchester to revisit the city on the first anniversary of the attack - it was very raw and emotional but it was an honour to be with her at that moment. Career highlights include being part of a BAFTA-winning team behind coverage of the Cumbrian shootings in 2010, winning three Royal Television Society presenter of the year awards, and a Variety Club silver heart for outstanding contribution to TV and charity. It is the opportunity of a lifetime and I just feel incredibly privileged to have the chance to share the news - good and bad, funny, happy or sad, with all those watching where we live. After Tyne Tees began broadcasting in 1959, Neville made occasional appearances, generally playing a policeman. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. At Look North, Neville and co-presenter George House (one of the BBC's first North East TV newsreaders) regularly incorporated Geordie into the programme, usually in comedy pieces pointing out the gulf between ordinary Geordies and officials speaking Standard English. Select from premium Tyne Tees Tv of the highest quality. Pam Royle has admitted it will be hard to say goodbye when she presents ITV News Tyne Tees and Border for the last time on Friday, Sign up for free to get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox. Put your knowledge to the test in our quiz, If you consider yourself a 'proper Geordie' then see if you can answer these questions correctly, Sunderland must repeat last season's final day heroics to reach play-offs, says Patrick Roberts, Patrick Roberts scored a stunning equaliser against Watford at the weekend, but Sunderland have work to do if they are to make this season's Championship play-offs, Newcastle mum inspired by Dame Deborah James to tackle bowel cancer after being diagnosed aged 36, Emma Campbell, of Forest Hall, was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 36 after ordering a bowel cancer screening kit she'd seen on Facebook. In January 1996 this was joined by lifestyle programme Tonight.[3]. She'll join Ian Payne on-screen from 29th March to present the evening news programme at 6pm. Meet Amy Lea - your new ITV News Border presenter [58] Following this incident, ITV adopted an anti-bullying programme. On 28 March 2021, ITV Tyne Tees announced that Amy Lea would be the new co-presenter of the main weekday news programme alongside Ian Payne as of 29 March 2021, taking over from Pam Royle who left ITV on 26 March 2021. He also compred Tyne Tees 40th anniversary celebrations. [30] Along with HTV and Yorkshire, Tyne Tees believed that they had to bid high to win. [6] One worker told Press Gazette that "morale is at rock bottom". The then-prime minister Harold Macmillan, who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the nearby Stockton-on-Tees for two decades, was interviewed live on the opening night. [25] By the late seventies, Tyne-Tees's locally made programming amounted to an average of less than nine hours a week, with the remainder of programming from the ITV network. As part of major ITV regional news cuts, taking place from November 2008 to February 2009, around 50 staff were made redundant or accepted voluntary redundancy at ITV Tyne Tees. TV-am Presenters 1985 The TV-am team in the atrium, 1985. Mike Neville (newsreader) - Wikipedia [33], New regulations from the ITC allowed Yorkshire to merge with Tyne Tees, this time under the name Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television plc (YTT), although their ITV franchises remained separate. One of the best known was The One O'Clock Show, a 40-minute variety show broadcast on weekdays. Tap into Getty Images global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over 340,000creators to create content exclusively for your brand. ITV News Tyne Tees unveils Amy Lea as its new presenter. Most of the regional programming was produced by Yorkshire and broadcast across the two stations, an area that the ITC considered too broad to be of local interest. In a wave of redundancies, the pair, who front the Tyne and Wear and Northumberland broadcasts of North East. Despite a reduction of the levy, Tyne Tees was one of the contractors facing collapse. Organise, control, distribute, and measure all of your digital content. These new studios formed the basis of Tyne Tees operations and featured the company offices. [42], On 26 June 1997, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television plc was acquired by the Granada Media Group plc (now ITV plc). In 2010, the studios at City Road along with the neighbouring pub, the Egypt Cottage, were demolished with plans for a residential development on the site. Can you name them all @theannediamond In a 43-year career with the BBC and ITV franchisee Tyne Tees Television. [59], Tyne Tees's original studios were located on City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and were converted from two furniture warehouses purchased by the company. Pam, who lives near Darlington, is planning to continue using her presenting skills on screen as well as working from a home studio, producing voice-overs for commercials, narrations, documentaries, and audio books. It's stories of strength like this that you really take home with you and that inspire you in your day to day life.The Bluebird. [71], The ident was again redesigned in 1988, in which the colour scheme was reversed and lighter shades of blue and yellow used. Regional programming used a generic ident with the name Tyne Tees below the ITV1 logo until November 2006, after which no regional idents existed. [4], The arrival of colour to ITV in 1969 led the companies to re-evaluate their on-screen identities. TV-am Presenters In 1998, it won a World Service Medal in New York for "Best News Magazine Programme". 13th NOVEMBER: English singer, songwriter and producer Jonathan King posed on Razzamatazz TV programme at Tyne Tees studios in . BBC One - Look North (North East and Cumbria) The form up was over a grey background with a line moving across the screen, forming the letters as they went. In 1962 he switched permanently to television, joining TTT as a continuity announcer, and in 1964 he became anchorman of its nightly magazine North East Newsview. Next he was an editorial dogsbody at the Daily Mails Newcastle offices. Date: 1955-1993. [22] By November 1981, Trident had sold all but residual stakes in the two companies (15% and 20% respectively). The full first night's programming was, In the 2006 documentary A History of Tyneside, veteran North East newsreader Mike Neville suggested that the launch of Tyne Tees enabled local people to be able to hear local accents and dialects on television, since early broadcasters, particularly those from the BBC, tended to speak in Received Pronunciation. He became Dean for Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sunderland in June 2009. The original whistleblower left the company in 2006 and was paid 80,000 after threatening to take his case to an employment tribunal. 25 September 2017 6:00pm Mike Neville Credit: North News / NNP Mike Neville, who has died aged 80, was a towering figures in the heyday of British regional television, anchoring the nightly. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. The second dramatisation, The Black Velvet Gown, was the number one drama of 1991, winning an Emmy Award for best TV drama. Tyne Tees - Wikipedia You can hear Colin on Vintage Vinyl from 2pm to 5pm Sundays. [63] A documentary about the move to new premises, The Big Move, reflected that over the years the staff numbers had dropped by about 800, and around 170 people would be moving to the new site. Tyne-Tees Regiment, formed in 1999. [71] The name "Tyne Tees Television" was only seen in small letters at the bottom of the screen, whereas Yorkshire, who also adopted the Channel 3 brand a month later, was allowed to keep its 'chevron' logo alongside the '3'. I was worried about falling in and getting wet - or setting off in the wrong direction and drifting away from the group!