Channel Report is the flagship news programme on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's Channel Islands regional station Channel Television

Channel Television

Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

, 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

Saint Helier

Saint Helier is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St. Helier has a population of about 28,000, roughly 31.2% of the total population of Jersey, and is the capital of the Island . The urban area of the parish of St...

 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 News airs on ITV1 Channel Television seven days a week. Channel Television provides three news bulletins during Daybreak

Daybreak (ITV)

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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.

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)

Reporters

Jersey

• Hannah Collier
• Leah Ferguson
• Melissa Goguelin
• Gillian Martindale (also relief anchor)
• Jenny Mullin (also presenter of Puffin's Pla(i)ce
  Puffin's Pla(i)ce
  Puffin's Place is a British regional children's programme broadcast on ITV1 Channel Television on weekend afternoons...
  
  )
• 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
  Paul Brown (presenter)
  Paul Brown was a senior journalist and presenter of Channel Report, Channel Television's flagship news programme.Born 1950, he joined Channel TV in 1972 as a reporter and during his 25-year career with the station, Paul became one of the main presenters of Channel Report and one of the station's...
  
   (1972 - 1997)
• Sarah Cilliers (weather)
• Russell Hookey
  Russell Hookey
  Russell Hookey is a radio and television journalist and broadcaster working in the United Kingdom and Channel Islands.He is currently reading news on the National UK radio station Classic FM & the London talk station LBC 97.3....
  
   (2006 - 2007,2008* moved to ITV Border
  Border Television
  Border Television is the ITV franchise holder for the Border region, spanning the England/Scotland border and covering Dumfries & Galloway region, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria...
  
   & ITN, LBC
  LBC
  LBC Radio operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio...
  
   & Classic FM
  Classic FM (UK)
  Classic FM, one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations, broadcasts classical music in a popular and accessible style.-Overview:...
  
  , now at ITV Anglia
  Anglia Television
  Anglia Television is the ITV franchise holder for the East Anglia franchise region. Although Anglia Television takes its name from East Anglia, its transmission coverage extends beyond the generally accepted boundaries of that region. The station is based at Anglia House in Norwich, with regional...
  
  )
• Stephanie Constantine (1993 - 2008)
• Murray Dron
  Murray Dron
  Murray Dron is a British journalist and television presenter working for ITN on London Tonight and ITV News.-Background:Dron was born in Perth, Scotland, but grew up in Jersey from a young age...
  
   (2003 - 2006, now with ITN on London Tonight
  London Tonight
  London Tonight is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London . Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of interest.Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses...
  
  and ITV News
  ITV News
  ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Since 1955, ITV's news bulletins have been produced by Independent Television News . The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the...
  
  )
• Victoria Harper (2008 - 2009)
• James Hunt (1999 - 2002)
• Jenny Kirk (2002 - 2004, now with BBC East
  BBC East
  BBC East is the BBC English Region serving Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex, Cambridgeshire, northern and central Hertfordshire, most of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and parts of Buckinghamshire.-Television:...
  
  )
• Wayne Laryea (1989 - 1991)

• Cathy Le Feuvre (1991-1993, moved to BBC East
  BBC East
  BBC East is the BBC English Region serving Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex, Cambridgeshire, northern and central Hertfordshire, most of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and parts of Buckinghamshire.-Television:...
  
  , then ITV Anglia
  Anglia Television
  Anglia Television is the ITV franchise holder for the East Anglia franchise region. Although Anglia Television takes its name from East Anglia, its transmission coverage extends beyond the generally accepted boundaries of that region. The station is based at Anglia House in Norwich, with regional...
  
  , where she became a network producer. She spent a number of years as Head of Media for The Salvation Army
  The Salvation Army
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   and now works as a freelance media consultant)
• Warren Mauger (2000 - 2004)
• Kristina Moore
  Kristina Moore
  Kristina Moore is a Jersey politician. Before her election to the States of Jersey as a deputy for Saint Peter in 2011, she spent over ten years working as a broadcast journalist based in the Channel Islands and the UK and presented Channel Television's nightly regional news programme, Channel...
  
  
• Sarah Montague
  Sarah Montague
  Sarah Montague is a British Journalist, best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as one of the regular presenters of the Today programme.-Early life:...
  
   (1992 - 1998, now on BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
  
  )
• Patrick Muirhead
• Kevin Owen
  Kevin Owen
  Kevin Owen is a television and radio news-anchor, reporter and presenter who was born in Plymouth.He has worked in UK regional and network broadcasting for more than two decades...
  
   (anchor at RT Moscow since 2006)
• Richard Pallot (now with ITV News
  ITV News
  ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Since 1955, ITV's news bulletins have been produced by Independent Television News . The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the...
  
  )
• 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