Alastair Yates
| Alastair Yates | |
|---|---|
| Born | Burton upon Trent |
| Education | Manor House School |
| Occupation | Journalist Presenter |
| Years active | 1973 - 2011 |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC News BBC World News |
Alastair Yates is a British journalist. He worked with the BBC, on BBC World News and BBC News until his retirement in April 2011.
Born and brought up in Burton upon Trent, Yates was educated at Manor House School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the former Burton Grammar School. Before deciding on journalism as a career Yates was a DJ and managed pop and folk groups.[1]
Yates, under the pseudonym Al Kay, got his broadcasting break when he began a weekly Saturday morning pop show on Radio Derby in 1973. That same station offered him the chance to move away from music-based shows to speech programming. He began his journalism career in 1976 with BBC Local Radio stations in Derby, Leicester, and Birmingham. He made his debut TV appearance at Pebble Mill in Birmingham in 1978 reporting for BBC Midlands's regional news programme Midlands Today. Whilst at BBC Midlands, Yates was also a regional continuity announcer and newsreader. He also appeared in some "Play for Today" dramas as himself. He left the BBC and joined ITV in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1980 at Grampian Television as a presenter and reporter for North Tonight. By 1986 he was presenting Anglia Television's evening news show About Anglia.
Yates joined Sky Television from its launch in 1989, becoming the first male presenter on Sky News.
In 1992 he moved to the recently launched BBC World Service Television and stayed in his post for the re-launch to BBC WORLD in 1995. And in 1997 he was part of the launch team for BBC News24 (now the BBC News Channel). He took a couple of years out from BBC TV News in 1998 to become an anchor on Deutsche Welle in Germany. He returned to the BBC, again to appear on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
[edit] References
- ^ "Alastair Yates". Programmes. BBC. 2005-11-01. Archived from the original on 2006-02-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20060219140823/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_news_24/1879136.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
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