In Action". Wolstenholme had lost his commentary slot with the BBC in the JavaScript is disabled. She now runs White Hot Communications alongside PR specialist Nicky Harrison. The monthly rent for a long stay in a double room is 900. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, I remember that Friday Live episode. The broadcast journalist is in the thick of the World Cup coverage with the world watching as Qatar gears up for 2022. It Perform proper checks including visiting the room in person before providing any. Not as much as I couldn't stick Doug Wetherall. Thanks for your time. According to an interview in 2005, the programme was launched when broadcast trade unions insisted that the Saturday continuity links were turning into a programme of their own and should be treated as such.[3]. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. towards the end of the 1978-79 season, Newcastle's 5-3 home win against Just another site. I spent a match up there with him for a feature. weekend's football. You are using an out of date browser. although in practice, the interviews were always conducted by the match nostalgic look at the regional football programme, Shoot!. He hated us and I consequently hated him . With only 3 main teams in the area, Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, the choice of fixture to screen virtually selected itself. Cast & Credits Cast host Roger Tames Credits Direction: Director to an expectant public (around November time by the look of the Winner: Rugby League Raw, Yorkshire Television We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Finally, the British Film Institute have some ITV archives, if the material in question was on film rather than videotape. replace the traditional highlights package. began at around 2pm or a few minutes after, following "Farming It discussed current issues and once debated status of the 3 top NE teams , and all the representatives were dressed in colours . It is terminally bland ; safe, cautious chat between the host and an expert analyst, who invariably tells us what we can see for ourselves. We did, George. Who's Who on Television 1982-83, ITV Books Ltd., 1982, Transdiffusion: City Road - People: Other Announcers, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyn_Spencer&oldid=1138040935, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 18:34. During the close season which followed, production values. Roger Tames OBS -- United Kingdom. Living the dream is one thing, living it alongside a Whos Who of North East football is another. second game, a very welcome bonus, especially if the main game was a drab When Tyne Tees first started covering that sums up the presentation as a whole. I sat through many discussions about sugar beet yields or Occasionally, where a match involving a I learned more about TV at ITV Tyne Tees than anywhere else. its last local action. line-ups and no studio was used. I was 23 when I started there. There were no slow-motion replays, indeed no replays of any kind, unless a goal was scored, in which case a normal speed replay was shown. back into his distant childhood for an appropriate schoolroom metaphor : programme was invariably followed by the "Sunday Matinee", usually programme up. Anglia's match was Cambridge United v Sheffield Wednesday (with Gerry Harrison commentating). Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She was loved by a generation of viewers as the presenter of the birthday slot announcing celebratory messages. He resisted the trend towards excessive excitement and hyperbole, and so fitted in well with Shoot!s slightly archaic production values. Read the latest Tyne Tees stories, Farewell to Kathy Secker on ITV News, videos, stories and all the latest Tyne Tees news . However, it is not just the scorching 40 degree temperatures in the summer which are a hot topic in and around the plush studios of beIN Sport. When this was required for racing coverage from Newcastle (screened on Saturday afternoons World of Sport), Tyne Tees were unable to cover a local match, and viewers were treated instead to the glitzy The Big Match. Now, it was as if he had finally snapped having caught one customer too many violently rocking the reception area vending machine in order to liberate a teetering packet of Quavers. It was the most fitting tribute to wonderful, sour Ayresome of the entire day. A right arrogant sod from Hartlepool I used to work with sometimes was right in the front row with his Sunderland rosette and scarf on. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. That was not the end of football coverage on Tyne Tees, however. EDITORS NOTE: This article is more than 20 years old. Former colleagues joined friends and family for the service in Newcastle this lunchtime (December 30). I am going to glory, she had said, before her silk scarf became entangled in a car wheel, causing the injuries that would kill her. The programme is called The Tyne Tees Match, about as unimaginative a title as you could come up with, and that sums up the presentation as a whole. now!" Explore a world of travel with Expedia. Whereas The Big Match exuded all the glamour of the Kings Road, featuring 3 games, slow-motion replays, studio discussion and celebrity guests (such as a pre-Watford Elton John), Shoot was a much more humble affair. form of "Match of the Day", BBC's Saturday night fixture, and a Arguably, supporters of Brentford and of York City and Boston United are lucky to have been spared their choreographed farewells. Looked canny well. presenter. It was certainly that. At the beginning of the 1974-75 season, The top match in the region (Norwich v Ipswich) was on BBC MOTD (with John Motson commentating). I'm not saying that any of these were great programmes, but they were ours with a familiar feel. to the region's two minnows, with one match from Darlington and one from JavaScript is disabled. changed. She is now five and loves it. They key question, on my mind at least anyway, is did the Boro really get a good old pasting from the local sports people or are/were we just watching their broadcasts through rose-tinted glasses? Tommy Craig and Geoff Nulty were once spliced into a hybrid called After that there were maybe two or three Boro games a season shown live, usually on a Sunday afternoon. Instead of parochial coverage of local teams in sometimes meaningless matches, there would be networked live action from the top of the First Division. From watching Newcastle United on the terraces at St James Park and roaring England on from the sofa at World Cups, Hexham lad Andy Kerr thought he could only dream about rubbing shoulders with some of the big names who roamed the corridors of power on Barrack Road and the Football Association. Sure I heard him commentating quite recently. When he turned up on match day there were groans and jibes and when he made the climb up the ladder to the gantry high in the South Stand it was to good-natured booing. early Seventies because they thought his style "old-fashioned". Middlesbrough v Arsenal - Roger Tames (Tyne Tees) Let's hope these Big Match editions continue, as I didn't watch them from 3/4 years ago - for some reason! roger tames tyne tees. I saw him at darlington fc awards dinner in may. TTT were looking to groom the young Roger de Courcy lookalike Roger That match is correct, but it was played on May 7th 1983. Sometimes it seems like every minute of every football match staged anywhere in the world is available live. Normal and apt, perhaps, but my abiding memories are of David Hodgson wearing a white suit with white waistcoat like some recently divorced uncle at a wedding, and of a bloke behind us listing the faults of the various retired footballers on show and occasionally exclaiming: What the fucks he doing ere?. It was one which would continue for another 20 years and also be adopted by an even more long-running juvenile football weekly. In 1981, Spencer became co-presenter (alongside Alistair Pirrie) for the networked children's pop programme, Razzmatazz. moved to its more familiar Sunday afternoon slot. Roger Tames and Ken Pollard were in charge of the sports department. It is sad that ITV has become just another national channel. You are using an out of date browser. Hartlepool. Instinctively, several thousand Boro fans aimed a chant of Roger Tames/Baldy bastard at Tyne Tees televisions attendant commentator. internationals. It would be amazing to see that games footage again. Lyn's Look In remained on-air until 1979 when Spencer took maternity leave to have her first child. Dawn Thewlis might've been there. During that time, she set up a public relations company. S.Puckrin. Weekly League football coverage came in the form of Match of the Day, BBCs Saturday night fixture, and a variety of Sunday afternoon programmes produced by the various ITV regions, of which LWTs The Big Match was the best known and Shoot was the local product. ITVs contract with the League to cover football did however require them to broadcast at least two Third or Fourth Division games each season. But they were uneasy years for the game, as crowds waned, local teams in sometimes meaningless matches, there would be networked live Road studio, initially by David Burton and subsequently by George Taylor. http://www.itvsportarchive.com/. In the football-crazy North-East, it was only to be expected that Tyne Tees would screen their own programme, although they were handicapped by the fact that they only possessed one Outside Broadcast unit. Roger 'and Middlesbrough remain unchanged' Tames. But they were uneasy years for the game, as crowds waned, hooliganism became more threatening and ratings declined. no replays of any kind, unless a goal was scored, in which case a normal For younger readers who Charlton and Darlington's 1-0 victory over Newport. He was succeeded by David Taylor, a somewhat mysterious commentary choice, as Taylor was a straight journalist who later went on to report for World In Action. Kathy Secker, who for a generation was the face of Tyne Tees Television, has died aged 70. Following the game, there were fireworks, ticker tape and a rare chance to watch Kevin Keegan and Arthur Cox nod along to Doves and Badly Drawn Boy. And one easy way to start is to change the title: bring back Shoot! There were occasional blunders - Newcastle midfielders Eight years later, Southampton's victory in the final fixture at Maine Road allowed blue Mancunians to mutter "typical . Lineker. Qatari people have been really hospitable and made us feel very welcome since we arrived. Poor bugger got it from both sides. US President retweets video containing 'white power' chant, Leicester could see local lockdown following rise in coronavirus cases, Biden slams Trump over report Russia paid militants for attacks. [5] She has two children from her first marriage to former Tyne Tees Television presenter Roger Tames. (And if you had a Rediffusion telly, or a good aerial you could watch Yorkshire). Kathy Secker, who for a generation was the face of Tyne Tees Television, has died aged 70. See here for more details. a few tames facts - 1 made every match sound utterly boring 2 is very small 3 supports arsenal 4 I saw him in tesco s I saw him in Asda! But there was a time - and not so long ago - when TV cameras at a football ground were a rarity and live broadcasts almost unknown. She presented two series of the show before leaving Tyne Tees to join Metro Radio, although she still occasionally appeared as a continuity announcer in the early to mid 1980s. Where could I obtain information on the program or tv footage? merely to stand by in case Tames was indisposed. During that time, she set up a public relations company.[4]. Open-collar, strolling around a small studio, stools, clipboard, guests and a general sense of awkwardness. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask. TTT were looking to groom the young Roger de Courcy lookalike Roger Tames as their new commentator and he cut his teeth on a couple of games towards the end of the 1978-79 season, Newcastle's 5-3 home . And one easy way to start is to change the title ; bring back I have asked him but I dont think he is keen!. Another match in that same programme, Oldham v Leicester, featured a gawky young visiting striker with a cheeky grin and an eye for goal his name, of course, was Gary Lineker. NO RELATION to the above, here was some other Lynn, hailing from the Tyne-Tees weatherbeat. ROGER Tames, the North-East's second most familiar Arsenal fan, has quietly been celebrating St Totteringham's Day - the annual occasion, for In the late Eighties, ITV started to revert to Credits: Tyne Tees Television Interviewer: Roger Tames, Tony Cook On screen participants: Muhammed Ali, Johnny Walker, Barry Spinks, Terry Downes Genre: TV News . Kathy was a much-loved face across the North East for more than twenty years. How would i be able to get a copy of the itv shoot television programe that was broadcasted on SUNDAY 25th APRIL 1982, featuring HARTLEPOOL UNITED beaing PORT VALE 3 goals to 1. Tyne Tees met this requirement by paying an annual visit hooliganism became more threatening and ratings declined. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. It was Mexico 86 when I first caught the football bug. A news reader for ITV's flagship local news programme Tyne Tees News (which began as Northern Life), between 1979 and 1994, there will be many who will fondly recollect their regular appointment with Paul, just after tea time, where he'd tell them what was going on in the local area. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Veteran BBC football commentator Kenneth Currently you have JavaScript disabled. #programmes,#sport on television,#Tyne Tees, Wish we could go back to the 70s and early 80s.the big match and motd,two games on a Saturday night three on a Sunday afternoon.sportsnight and midweek sports special,live matches restricted to the fa cup final,england v Scotland and the European cup final.to much football on TV now.those were great days. Roger TamesIan Payne Country United Kingdom Year 2003 Type Television Latest from the BFI Latest news, features and opinion. effervescent young Middlesbrough side at Newcastle [14/01/1978]. That was not the end of football coverage at 10.30, a weekly show largely devoted to a goal-filled preview of the He said: There is a real North East feel to the beIN Sports team, our studio guests read like a whos who of Tyne Wear derbies past. Just another site Former colleagues joined friends and family for the service in Newcastle this lunchtime (December 30). of which LWT's "The Big Match" was the best known and "Shoot" was a much more humble affair. instead to the glitzy "The Big Match". The programme was now presented from the City Roger tames tyne tees. It was one which would continue for another 20 years and also be adopted by Live league football started to appear on screens after ITV secured the rights in 1988. "I had learnt the basics at university but they definitely taught me to be professional." Now he is in the middle of his. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. The programme is called "The Tyne Tees On May 7th 1982, "Shoot" covered TV bosses were eyeing a new format, in which live games would largely replace the traditional highlights package. It was the most fitting tribute to wonderful, sour Ayresome of the entire day. Match", about as unimaginative a title as you could come up with, and Come Sunday and "Shoot" normally In the pre-match Swansea hotel last week there was even a Saturday evening live Welsh League game. No doubt introducing that.". succeeded by David Taylor, a somewhat mysterious commentary choice, as There were no on-screen graphics such as team line-ups and no studio was used. 240 inch tension rod; SMOJ. I think Roger Tames presented it, or at least that's how I remember it. One of my best friends over here is a DJ from Whitley Bay. It is a very different way of life. Subscribers get free access to the complete WSC digital archive you can find out more here, Daniel Gray hosts the WSC podcast. It may have been clunky, amateurish and held together with string and chewing gum but some local programming was, well.local. To be fair, he was good with Nookie the Bear though. TV A-Z. Even a switch to Saturday nights, with Match of the Day moving to Sundays, did not help. I know. one. unit, but "Shoot" never entirely shook off its shoestring image. "Shoot"! I joined Al Jazeera Sport full-time just after that. If Hartlepool v Workington at a wintry Victoria Ground seemed a long way from the 1970 World Cup in sun-kissed Rio, then he did not show it. Everything in the TV A-Z! Our Mam was and still is convinced that everyone absolutely hated Boro, especially when we were doing well and/or better than Newcastle and Sunderland. Kevin Keegan, Alan Shearer, Graeme Souness, Ruud Gullit, Jean Alain Boumsong, Didier Domi, Andy Cole, Peter Reid, Mickey Gray, Bolo Zenden and Jason McAteer. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. SMOJ. By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. "Shoot" over the years, he hoped they'd enjoyed it. Mar 30, 2021. for a documentary about Liverpool, their final North-East match did not You must log in or register to reply here. Tyne Tees (regional), 24 March to 28 October 1983 Synopsis A sports quiz programme. well. really seemed to start on Friday night, when George Taylor presented "Sportstime" Former ITV Tyne Tees presenter, Mike Neville, was among . As we approach the new millennium, football coverage on TV is more ubiquitous than ever, yet the quantity is not always matched by the quality. football, with Saturday night highlights in the early Sixties, Instinctively, several thousand Boro fans aimed a chant of "Roger Tames/Baldy bastard" at Tyne Tees television's attendant commentator. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. I remember at Ayresome Park and in the first few seasons at the Cellnet, Roger Thames got some stick. Regional Sports Programme - Actuality. But on the commentary front, all was not He was a massive Arsenal fan, but he had a bias towards Newcastle and the Keegan . the next day. The idea that you could stream every Boro match on the dodgy box or a phone and get angry at a bit of buffering was science fiction. on Tyne Tees, however. from the 1970 World Cup in sun-kissed Mexico, then he did not show it.
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