Veteran newsreader Sir Alastair Burnet, best known for fronting ITV's News At Ten, has died aged 84.In a statement, his family said he died at a nursing home in London, where he was being cared for after suffering several strokes. The broadcaster presented his last news bulletin in August 1991, after retiring at the age of 63.BBC.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2012
(644)
-
▼
July
(53)
- New Yorker writer faked Bob Dylan quotes in bestse...
- Rogers races to capture multicultural viewers for ...
- Tory minister's complaint against lawyer's comment...
- William French, long-time Globe and Mail literary ...
- The power and glory of sportswriting
- Aboriginal network breaks Carson story
- New York Times Co. posts $88 million loss
- Newsweek to cease publication, stay online
- Sun finds boy in a burka can buy booze
- Coulson, Brooks to face hacking charges
- Shaw Approved for BC Regional News Network
- Do we know what we want to see on TV?
- Murdoch quits boards of all his newspaers
- Networks,cable giants launch Aurora marathon
- Consummate anchor Alastair Burnet dead at 84
- No FOI in Pyonyang for South Korean press
- Star cancels satirical sheet
- CBC moaning about the end of local programming sur...
- Cogeco Cable buying Atlantic Broadband to expand i...
- CRTC orders end to cable's local programming fee
- Jewelry Television named 13th largest jewelry reta...
- Chinese newspaper shakeups raise fears of growing ...
- Texting overtakes talking in UK, says Ofcom study
- Google's Mayer is new Yahoo boss
- NHL’s labour woes raise prospect of a broadcasting...
- Microsoft pulls out of msnbc.com; prepares to laun...
- Assembly of First Nations candidates using "new mo...
- Finding—and photographing—Karla Homolka
- Conrad Black's fight to retain Order of Canada fod...
- Forcing reporter to retire at 65 discriminatory: N...
- Kitchener Rangers hockey team sues student newspaper
- TV providers watch subscribers numbers drop
- Court rules on music downloads, photocopying
- Blast at Shaw HQ hits 911, gov't, public computers
- No bad news please, we're Iranian
- Scotland Yard makes two more arrests
- Sun pundit attacks Globe ex-editor
- Postmedia plan for cost-cutting
- Celebrity chef Anthony Seldak dead at age 29
- Stooge of Stalin or Simply Stupid?
- Times to launch free Chinese-language news site
- Fiona Conway heads to Canada and the CBC
- Media fight ban on naming social workers
- Toronto police return negatives from 2000 riot
- Radio Canada reporter running for Parti Quebecois ...
- U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear media ownershi...
- The tablet war heats up: Smaller, cheaper iPad sai...
- Journalism education cannot teach its way to the f...
- Out of touch TV crew in the Philippines was feared...
- HBO Renews 'True Blood,' 'The Newsroom'
- Anderson Cooper reveals he's gay
- New Zealand reporter ejected from courtroom after ...
- All the news that’s fit to post and link: Federal ...
-
▼
July
(53)
No comments:
Post a Comment