Channel Report

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Channel Report
Also known as Channel News
Genre Regional News
Presented by Kristina Moore
Jess Dunsdon
Country of origin  United Kingdom
Production
Producer(s) Channel Television
Newsline
Running time Varies
Broadcast
Original channel Channel Television
Original run January 5, 1976 – Present

Channel Report is the flagship news programme on Channel Television, co-produced with the independent production company, Newsline. Channel Report airs every weeknight at 6pm, with all other bulletins branded as Channel News. Channel Report was first broadcast on 5 January 1976. The programme is produced from the main studios of Channel Television in St. Helier on Jersey. Reporters and camera crews are also based at Channel's Guernsey studios in St. Sampson. Freelance correspondents, camera crews and videojournalists are based on Alderney and Sark.

Since early 2008, Channel Television's head of news has been former anchorman Russell Hookey with senior reporter Eric Blakeley as Channel Report's programme editor.

Contents

[edit] On Air

Channel News airs on Channel Television seven days a week. Channel Television provides three news bulletins during GMTV at 6.35am, 7.10am & 8.10am. The lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV Lunchtime News, giving a seven minute round-up of the days developments from 1.55pm. The main evening edition of Channel Report begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm (Tuesday-Thursday), 6.15pm (Mondays and Fridays when it is followed by Report Sport). The late news update from Channel follows the News at Ten, airing between 10.30pm and 10.40pm, Monday to Friday.

Channel News airs two bulletins at weekends: one on Saturday afternoon and the other on Sunday evenings.

[edit] The news team

[edit] Main anchors

  • Jess Dunsdon

[edit] Other newscasters

  • Gillian Martindale (Stand-in)
  • Natalie Sunley

[edit] Weather presenters

  • Sophia Bird
  • Andrew Davey
  • Victoria Huson

[edit] Reporters

Jersey

  • Eric Blakeley
  • Hannah Collier
  • Adam Fowler
  • Christina Ghidoni
  • Melissa Goguelin
  • James Hassam
  • John Jacques
  • Sarah Moorhouse

Guernsey

  • Alice Humphry
  • Andy Richards
  • Tamara Timothy

Specialist Reporters

  • Gillian Martindale (Health)
  • Jack Tayler (Sports Editor)

[edit] Former presenters

  • Roger Bowns (1966 - 1997)
  • Paul Brown (1972 - 1997)
  • Sarah Cilliers (weather)
  • Stephanie Constantine (1993 - 2008)
  • Murray Dron (2003 - 2006, now with ITN - first on ITV News and now Setanta Sports News)
  • Victoria Harper (2008 - 2009)
  • Rebecca Huggler (? - 2008)
  • James Hunt (1999 - 2002)
  • Jenny Kirk (2002 - 2004, now with BBC East)

[edit] Production Team

Chief Editor
Russell Hookey

Programme Editor
Eric Blakeley

Directors
Kevin Banner
Michael Keen
Kristy Le Quesne
Daniel Wickham
Mark Wilkinson

Archive Consultant
Dawn Howard

VT
Paul Marie
Mark Pallot
Phil Slatter

Alderney Videojournalist
Nigel Soane-Sands

Sark Camera
Javie Dance

Senior Broadcast Engineer
Graham Tidy

Production Team

Neil Archer
Andy Fox
Rowena Hockey
Kay Jackson
Susannah Last
Val Le Sueur
Paul Marshall

Kirsten Matete
John Matthews
Marcel Morin
Alex Shaw
Tracy Wickham
Andy Will
Stephen Youinou

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