Mike Neville MBE (born 17 October 1936, Willington Quay, Wallsend) is a former British television presenter. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Willington Quay is an area in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear in northern England. Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. He is highly regarded in the area for his solid presentational style and witty banter. In 1990, Neville was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to broadcasting. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. He lives in Whickham with his wife of 40 years, Pam. Whickham is a town in North East England, four miles south west of Newcastle upon Tyne and four and a half miles west of Gateshead centre
Career
Mike Neville's roots lay in North East theatre, but the launch of Tyne Tees Television in 1959 offered a new opportunity. Tyne Tees Television is the ITV television contractor for North East England. Mike began work as young reporter on the fledgling station.
He later switched to the rival BBC news programme Look North and was the main presenter for 32 years. He also regularly presented the BBC's Nationwide programme during the 80s, but turned down offers to move to London, preferring to stay in the North East of England. Nationwide was a BBC current affairs television series broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the early evening news London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Mike Neville and George House (aka Jarge Hoose), as co-presenters of Look North, in the 1960s and 1970s, not only incorporated Geordie into the show, albeit usually in comedy pieces pointing up the gulf between ordinary Geordies and officials speaking Standard English, but were responsible for a series of recordings, beginning with Larn Yersel' Geordie which attempted, not always seriously, to bring the Geordie dialect to the rest of England.
In 1996, Mike was approached by ITV Tyne Tees and offered a chance to return to the commercial station. Tyne Tees offered him his own hour long news programme: North East Tonight with Mike Neville, the local ITV news programme for the North East of England. North East Tonight is the evening regional news programme broadcast at 6pm each weekday on ITV Tyne Tees. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent
Mike made the switch back to Tyne Tees, which coincided with a rebrand from Tyne Tees to Channel 3 North East. He was the anchor of the show until late 2005 when he underwent an operation to remove a blood clot from his leg. On 5th June 2006, Neville announced that he would be retiring from the show after 40 years presenting news in the North East [1]. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
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