Come Sunday and “Shoot” normally began at around 2pm or a few minutes after, following “Farming Outlook”. Taylor took the helm throughout the early Seventies, bowing out at the end of the 1973-74 season, his last commentary a 1-1 draw between Newcastle and Birmingham. That was not the end of football coverage on Tyne Tees, however. As Roger Tames is responsible for the absolute monstrosity that was 'Cafe Sport', it may well have come too late. rumours abound that North East sport legend Roger Tames is leaving ITV1 Tyne Tees and joining Film Nova as their Head of Sport. During the close season which followed, Wolstenholme was allegedly told by Tyne Tees that he was to be relegated to the commentating sub’s bench, expected to travel up from London every Friday merely to stand by in case Tames was indisposed. The local game was supplemented by two other matches and the wonders of slow-motion replays were introduced. Tyne Tees TV: 07/08/1992: Newcastle United v Middlesbrough: Friendly Club Match: Tyne Tees TV: 08/05/1990: Middlesbrough v Newcastle United: English Football League Second Division : Tyne Tees TV: Top 20 commentators / pundits working on Tyne Tees TV. Roger Tames and Sir John Hall (Image: Ian Horrocks). Veteran BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, famed for his “they think it’s all over – it is now!” 1966 World Cup commentary, had been signed up as their new commentator. The days of Darlington v Barnsley being the star attraction were clearly numbered. so, it would seem the reporters and presenters still there will now have to work directly under Graham Marples, Head of News. When this was required for racing coverage from Newcastle (screened on Saturday afternoon’s “World of Sport”), Tyne Tees were unable to cover a local match, and viewers were treated instead to the glitzy “The Big Match”. Wolstenholme had lost his commentary slot with the BBC in the early Seventies because they thought his style “old-fashioned”. Biography. Like much of the regional media, Tyne Tees is diminished these days. 1; 2; Next. 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. With the Friday night horror film following it, this was the ideal way to begin the weekend! Steve Rider?Gabby Logan(Now BBC)? He married Tyne Tees continuity announcer Lyn Spencer and they had at least one child together (there was a famous incident during a live broadcast when Tyne Tees presenters staged a pantomime at Christmas and Roger … “I learned more about TV at ITV Tyne Tees than anywhere else. ITV Tyne Tees won 'News Programme of the Year' while the BBC's Richard Moss was named Presenter of the Year. Roger Tames Managing Director at Box to Box Media Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 316 connections My favourite bit of Wolstenholme commentary came when the station screened a 4-2 away win for Jack Charlton’s effervescent young Middlesbrough side at Newcastle. MR ROGER TAME is British and resident in United Kingdom. Roy Webber - scorer, question-setter. As promising striker Stan Cummins broke away to grab the fourth, Ken reached back into his distant childhood for an appropriate schoolroom metaphor : “That gives him ten out of ten and one for neatness!”. Instead of parochial coverage of local teams in sometimes meaningless matches, there would be networked live action from the top of the First Division. http://www.itvsportarchive.com/. Roger Tames Central: Stan Collymore Sarah Jane Mee (2004–08) Meridian: Andy Steggall: Granada: Matt Smith Alistair Mann (2004–05) West: Jed Pitman Westcountry: Mark Tyler Jeff Welch Yorkshire: Andy Townsend John Shires (stand-in) Peter Beagrie: London (Axed after the 2005–06 season.) Talking of Farming Outlook mentioned earlier in this piece. If anyone at Tyne Tees is reading this, let me make a simple plea ; recapture the glory days of TTT football by pepping the programme up. ITV News Tyne Tees is the evening news programme produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to North East England and North Yorkshire. Last 5 matches worked on by Roger Tames . On May 7th 1982, “Shoot” covered its last local action. In the late Sixties “Shoot” had moved to its more familiar Sunday afternoon slot. v Burnley: English Championship: ITV The Championship: Main Commentator: English: 15/11/2008: Doncaster Rovers v Ipswich Town: English Championship: ITV The … Occasionally, where a match involving a local side had been filmed by another ITV region, this would be shown as a second game, a very welcome bonus, especially if the main game was a drab one. 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”. They are very expensive as they are aimed at businesses. Roger Tames and Ken Pollard were in charge of the sports department. Even though I’m not a football fan, Roger Tames was a regular face on Tyne Tees in the 1970 and 80s as a general sports reporter on evening regional news bulletins.
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