Rachel McTavish
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Rachel McTavish is a freelance broadcast journalist and presenter, currently working for ITN in London presenting the ITV News at 5.30, London Tonight
& Daybreak London
bulletins and for STV in Glasgow, presenting STV News
bulletins for the West of Scotland.
McTavish was also a regular presenter on the ITV News Channel
until it closed in 2005, and most notably was on air during the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City
. Rachel could also be heard on LBC 97.3
's Nick Ferrari
Show on Friday mornings.
and Five News
. She also covered the Midlands for ITV national bulletins as a video journalist before taking on the role of presenter for many ITV News
programmes and was a regular presenter on the ITV News Channel
until its closure in 2005 - most notably during the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City
. Rachel could also be heard on LBC 97.3
's Nick Ferrari
Show on Friday mornings.
McTavish became a freelance journalist on STV's Scotland Today
in 2007 fronting the West opt-out during the main evening programme and regionwide short bulletins.
On 28 April 2008, she joined STV's regional magazine programme The Five Thirty Show
, replacing Debi Edward
- first as a stand-in and then, permanently. McTavish went on to co-host the show until her departure from STV on 15 May 2009. The programme was axed and replaced by an hour-long programme entitled The Hour. She returned to STV in June 2011 as a news bulletin presenter and stand-in anchor for the West edition of STV News at Six
.
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...
& Daybreak London
Daybreak (ITV)
Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...
bulletins and for STV in Glasgow, presenting STV News
STV News at Six
STV News at Six is a Scottish regional news programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV Central in the Central region and STV North in the Northern region.The programmes were launched on Monday 23 March 2009, replacing Scotland Today in...
bulletins for the West of Scotland.
McTavish was also a regular presenter on the ITV News Channel
ITV News Channel
The ITV News Channel was a 24-hour television news channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 1 August 2000 to 23 December 2005. It was available on Sky, NTL:Telewest, Freeview and analogue cable, presenting national and international news plus regular business, sport, entertainment and...
until it closed in 2005, and most notably was on air during the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Rachel could also be heard on LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
's Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari is a radio presenter who currently hosts the weekday breakfast show from 0700-1000 UTC on the London-based talk and phone-in radio station LBC 97.3. He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and is a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV1...
Show on Friday mornings.
Journalism career
Rachel started her career at Channel One in her home city of Liverpool before working as a newsreader for GMTVGMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
and Five News
Five News
5 News is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5, produced by Sky News. From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Channel 5, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997...
. She also covered the Midlands for ITV national bulletins as a video journalist before taking on the role of presenter for many 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...
programmes and was a regular presenter on the ITV News Channel
ITV News Channel
The ITV News Channel was a 24-hour television news channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 1 August 2000 to 23 December 2005. It was available on Sky, NTL:Telewest, Freeview and analogue cable, presenting national and international news plus regular business, sport, entertainment and...
until its closure in 2005 - most notably during the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Rachel could also be heard on LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
's Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari is a radio presenter who currently hosts the weekday breakfast show from 0700-1000 UTC on the London-based talk and phone-in radio station LBC 97.3. He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and is a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV1...
Show on Friday mornings.
McTavish became a freelance journalist on STV's Scotland Today
Scotland Today
Scotland Today was a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central . Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Central Belt franchise...
in 2007 fronting the West opt-out during the main evening programme and regionwide short bulletins.
On 28 April 2008, she joined STV's regional magazine programme The Five Thirty Show
The Five Thirty Show
The Five Thirty Show was a short-lived Scottish topical magazine show, which began broadcasting in Northern and Central Scotland on STV on Monday January 28, 2008...
, replacing Debi Edward
Debi Edward
Debi Edward is a Scottish television broadcaster, currently working for ITN as Scotland Correspondent on ITV News and a reporter for STV News in Central Scotland....
- first as a stand-in and then, permanently. McTavish went on to co-host the show until her departure from STV on 15 May 2009. The programme was axed and replaced by an hour-long programme entitled The Hour. She returned to STV in June 2011 as a news bulletin presenter and stand-in anchor for the West edition of STV News at Six
STV News at Six
STV News at Six is a Scottish regional news programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV Central in the Central region and STV North in the Northern region.The programmes were launched on Monday 23 March 2009, replacing Scotland Today in...
.
External links
- Rachel McTavish (Official website)