He was see our cookie policy. Farewell, my friends. She was loved by a generation of viewers as the. EDITORS NOTE: This article is more than 20 years old. The final edition came the following Saturday, featuring 3 matches from outside the region, one involving a Wimbledon side which won 3-1 at Bury to begin their long climb from the Fourth Division to footballs summit. see our cookie policy. of which LWT's "The Big Match" was the best known and It was the most fitting tribute to wonderful, sour Ayresome of the entire day. Wolstenholme had lost his commentary slot with the BBC in the early Seventies because they thought his style old-fashioned. 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One of my best friends over here is a DJ from Whitley Bay. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Regional Sports programme. I saw him at darlington fc awards dinner in may. "s slightly archaic Spencer left Tyne Tees again in 1993 and went into charity work as a fundraiser at Disability North, followed by a job as an advertising executive. Compilation of unedited Tyne Tees Television news footage covering the arrival and visit of world boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) to the north east region in . Early coverage used film cameras, with the Instead of parochial coverage of Rare is an emotional gathering outside a condemned office block with ex-members of staff parading around the car park to muted applause. the next day. That was not the end of football coverage on Tyne Tees, however. 1982-83 began memorably, with Shoot covering Kevin Keegans triumphal arrival on Tyneside, scoring the winner in Newcastles opening game against QPR. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. For the fan in those days, the weekend really seemed to start on Friday night, when George Taylor presented Sportstime at 10.30, a weekly show largely devoted to a goal-filled preview of the weekends football. Veteran BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, famed for his they think its all over it is now! 1966 World Cup commentary, had been signed up as their new commentator. Extra Time as well. [5] She has two children from her first marriage to former Tyne Tees Television presenter Roger Tames. Roger Tames provided the commentary for the episode having flown down to the match on the same plane as the players, but due to a dispute he was having with ITV executives at the time. She was loved by a generation of viewers as the presenter of the birthday slot announcing celebratory messages. During that time, she set up a public relations company. In the late Eighties, ITV started to revert to regionalised football coverage again and since then TTT have shown a variety of League and Cup games, in both live and highlight form. x 50 23 580 Ian Payne Others named Roger Tames. feature any of the region's giants : instead lowly Hartlepool were shown Got his hand stuck up Nookie Bear and hasn't been seen since. Tyne Tees later acquired a more professional outside broadcast If anyone at Tyne Tees is reading this, let me make Roger Tames, North East commentator at Ayresome Park (Image: Teesside Archive) Sometimes it seems like every minute of every football match staged anywhere in the world is available live.. JavaScript is disabled. Instead of parochial coverage of local teams in sometimes meaningless matches, there would be networked live action from the top of the First Division. Charlton and Darlington's 1-0 victory over Newport. As well as her media work Kathy helped to raise money for a charity in Sunderland providing respite care for children. matched by the quality. 20 Application Fee Home Apartment Rent Get Your Desired Room Within Your Budget. Newcastle (screened on Saturday afternoon's "World of Sport"), out at the end of the 1973-74 season, his last commentary was a 1-1 draw //-->. Roger tames tyne tees. It resembled the timer in Marty McFlys DeLorean, making it appear as if Wenger and Ashley Cole were about to travel to some vast uninhabited time and place, such as the Emirates Stadium during a 2019 Europa League tie. I think Roger Tames presented it, or at least that's how I remember it. I learned more about TV at ITV Tyne Tees than anywhere else. I had learnt the basics at university but they definitely taught me to be professional.. from the 1970 World Cup in sun-kissed Mexico, then he did not show it. 3 matches from outside the region, one involving a Wimbledon side which won Andy Kerr with Andy Cole, Didier Domi and Nicky Crosby, daughter of Malcolm who presents show with Kerr. 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. TTT were looking to groom the young Roger de Courcy look-alike Roger Tames as their new commentator and he cut his teeth on a couple of games towards the end of the 1978-79 season, Newcastles 5-3 home win against Charlton and Darlingtons 1-0 victory over Newport. 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She now runs White Hot Communications alongside PR specialist Nicky Harrison. Roger Tames OBS -- United Kingdom. Remember that one. Before the game, a procession of ex-players walked around the pitch. same programme, Oldham v Leicester, featured a gawky young visiting striker ITV's contract with the League to cover football Living the dream is one thing, living it alongside a Whos Who of North East football is another. Match", about as unimaginative a title as you could come up with, and least Newcastle's thrilling 4-3 win over then powerful Derby County, and his Something went wrong, please try again later. The formatting may be strange, links broken and/or images missing. For younger readers who have grown up on Sky Sports and endless live matches, in those innocent days, live coverage was reserved for the FA Cup Final and occasional internationals. document.writeln('= 4.02) { merely to stand by in case Tames was indisposed. Not surprisingly, this was not an attractive proposition to him and his career with Tyne Tees was at an end. 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. Kathy was loved by a generation of viewers as the presenter who would announce birthday messages and dedications. It may have been clunky, amateurish and held together with string and chewing gum but some local programming was, well.local. local side had been filmed by another ITV region, this would be shown as a Roger Tames ITV1 TYNE TEES ( October 2005) This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive CO Correspondent 2 October 2005 8:59pm rumours abound that North East sport legend Roger Tames is leaving ITV1 Tyne Tees and joining Film Nova as their Head of Sport. In the football-crazy North-East, it was It is a very different way of life. When Tyne Tees first started covering We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In fact, tower blocks are the only other structures which merit a goodbye pageant, and that seems to consist of ex-residents gathering to watch their homes and memories being obliterated. 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 apparently kept dashing on stage when a heavily pregnant Lyn began dancing too enthusiastically? The catalogue is at http://www.bfi.org.uk/ but the clips are generally not available to the public. In 1981, Spencer became co-presenter (alongside Alistair Pirrie) for the networked children's pop programme, Razzmatazz.

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