Channel Report

Channel Report
Also known as	Channel News
Genre	Regional News
Presented by	Jess Dunsdon, Mark McQuillan
Country of origin	Channel Islands
Language(s)	English
Production
Editor(s)	Eric Blakeley
Location(s)	St. Helier, Jersey
Running time	Channel Report: 15-30 minutes; Channel News: Durations vary
Production company(s)	ITV Channel Television, Newsline
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1 Channel Television
Original run	5 January 1976 (1976-01-05) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Report Sport
External links
Website

Channel Report is the flagship news programme on ITV's Channel Islands regional station 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.

On Air

Channel TV News crew filming an interview with the Bailiff of Jersey in April 2011

Channel News airs on ITV1 Channel Television seven days a week. Channel Television provides three news bulletins during Daybreak at 6.15am, 7.15am & 8.15am. The lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV News at 1:30, 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 ITV News at Ten, airing between 10.30pm and 10.35pm, Monday to Friday.

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

The news team

Main anchors

• Jess Dunsdon (Channel Report and alternate late bulletin, also reporter)
• Mark McQuillan (Channel Report and alternate late bulletin, also reporter)

Other presenters

• Brian Constantine (Daybreak updates and lunchtime bulletin)
• Gillian Martindale (relief anchor)

Weather presenters

• Sophia Bird
• Charlotte Smith (relief presenter)

Reporters

Jersey Hannah Collier Leah Ferguson Melissa Goguelin Gillian Martindale (also relief anchor) Jenny Mullin (also presenter of Puffin's Pla(i)ce) Louisa Pilbeam Iselin Vale

Guernsey Gary Burgess Rob Moore Tamara Timothy Alderney James Varley

Specialist Reporters Andy Richards (Sports Editor, also presenter of Report Sport)

Former presenters

Roger Bowns (1966 - 1997) Paul Brown (1972 - 1997) Sarah Cilliers (weather) Russell Hookey (2006 - 2007,2008* moved to ITV Border & ITN, LBC & Classic FM, now at ITV Anglia) Stephanie Constantine (1993 - 2008) Murray Dron (2003 - 2006, now with ITN on London Tonight and ITV News) Victoria Harper (2008 - 2009) James Hunt (1999 - 2002) Jenny Kirk (2002 - 2004, now with BBC East) Wayne Laryea (1989 - 1991)

Cathy Le Feuvre (1991-1993, moved to BBC East, then ITV Anglia, where she became a network producer. She spent a number of years as Head of Media for The Salvation Army and now works as a freelance media consultant) Warren Mauger (2000 - 2004) Kristina Moore Sarah Montague (1992 - 1998, now on BBC Radio 4) Patrick Muirhead Kevin Owen (anchor at RT Moscow since 2006) Richard Pallot (now with ITV News) Hannah Stewart-Jones (now Shellswell, 1998 - 2000) Simon Ward (Now freelance with ITV and BBC)

Production Team

Head of News & Content Laura Holgate

Programme Editor Eric Blakeley

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

Archive Consultant Dawn Howard

VT Henry Woolley

Alderney Videojournalist James Varley

Sark Camera Javie Dance

Senior Broadcast Engineer Graham Tidy

Production Team

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

Phil Slatter John Matthews Marcel Morin Russel Torode Tracy Wickham Andy Will Stephen Youinou

External links

Channel Report - Catch up at channelonline.tv ITV News at itv.com

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