BBC Points West

Points West
Presented by Alex Lovell
David Garmston
(Main anchors)
Theme music composer David Lowe
Country of origin England, United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
Production
Editor(s) Neil Bennett
Location(s) Broadcasting House, Bristol,
England, UK
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 30 minutes
(main 6:30pm programme)
Production company(s) BBC West
Release
Original network BBC One West
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
Original release September 1957 (1957-09) – present
Chronology
Related shows ITV News West Country
External links
Website

BBC Points West (known as News West from June 1991 until May 2000) is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the West of England, covering Bristol, the majority of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, northern and eastern Somerset and North Dorset.

History

Regional television news in the West of England began in September 1957 with the start of daily short bulletins. Around this time, news bulletins for the West shared a 5-10 minute timeslot with Welsh news bulletins as the Wenvoe transmitter on the western outskirts of Cardiff was serving viewers in both south Wales and the West of England. The West's regional bulletins were relaunched in 1962 as Points West but still had to share the new 25-minute timeslot with Wales Today.

The launch of a dedicated BBC Wales television station in February 1964 allowed Points West to become a full-length regional news programme broadcast only to the West of England. Between 1991 and 2000, the programme was known as BBC News West.

The team

Programme presenters

Weather presenters

Person Related notes
Ian Fergusson
Holly Green
Alina Jenkins
Sarah Farmer
Dan Downs Based at BBC South West, Plymouth
Emily Wood

District Correspondents

Person District/area Related note(s)
Sarah-Jane Bungay Wiltshire Shared with South Today
Steve Knibbs Gloucestershire Shared with Midlands Today
Clinton Rogers Somerset Shared with Spotlight
Alison 'Ali' Vowles Bath and North East Somerset Newsreader/stand-in presenter

Specialist Correspondents

Person Title
Steve Brodie Home Affairs Correspondent
Alistair 'Ali' Durden Sport Editor
Dave Harvey Business Correspondent
Matthew Hill Health Correspondent
Paul Barltrop Politics Editor

News Correspondents

Person Related notes
Liz Beacon Newsreader
Sarah-Jane Bungay
Sally Challoner
Sabet Choudhury
Will Glennon
Fiona Lamdin
Amanda Parr
Andrew Plant Newsreader and network reporter
Imogen Sellers Newsreader
Madeleine Ware

Producers

  • Jude Hollingsworth
  • Dawn Trevett
  • Naomi Wordley
  • Alice Bouverie
  • Catherine Powell
  • Liz Beacon (Stand-in producer)
  • Sarah-Jane Bungay (Stand-in producer)

Former presenters
  • David Passmore (Sports presenter)
  • Clare Banks
  • Mike Dornan
  • Roy Sheppard
  • Tony Target (Weather presenter)
  • Susan Osman
  • Nigel Turner
  • Saima Mohsin
  • Maurice Flynn
  • Katharine Carpenter
  • Jeremy Carrad
  • Amanda Theunissen
  • John Norman
  • Gwyn Richards
  • Isabel Webster (Weather presenter)
  • Elizabeth Rizzini (Weather presenter)
  • Jemma Cooper (Weather presenter)
  • Kawser Quamer (Weather presenter)
  • Kate Haskell (née Reeves; weather presenter)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/pointswest/content/tour/images/old4.jpg. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
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