Nan Winton

Nan Winton is a British broadcaster, best known for being the first female national newsreader on BBC television.

She was a BBC TV continuity announcer from 1958 to 1961 and also an experienced journalist, who had worked on Panorama and Town and Around.[1] She was given the job of reading the 6pm news and weekend bulletins on Sunday evenings, in response to rivals ITN, who had a female newscaster, Barbara Mandell, since its launch in 1955.

She began on 19 June 1960, but BBC Audience research concluded that viewers thought a woman reading the late news was "not acceptable"[1] and she was removed from the role in March 1961.[2] She remained the only woman to have read the national news on BBC TV until 1975, when Angela Rippon began a much longer spell as a newsreader.

After stepping down from reading the news, Winton remained a TV and radio news reporter and interviewer. She was also a regular panellist on the radio panel game Treble Chance. She was formerly married to actor Charles Stapley who had appeared as Ted Hope in Crossroads.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Humphrys, Julian (June 2010). BBC History magazine. ISSN 1469-8552.
  2. ↑ Biodata Archived 2007-07-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Hayward, Anthony (3 April 2011). "Charles Stapley obituary". The Guardian. London.
  • Kearney, Martha (3 February 2005). "Women in news or 'news tarts'?". Newsnight25. London: BBC Online. Retrieved 10 February 2013. In Italy and Spain they have women newsreaders who are beautiful and sexy too. We're afraid of that here.
  • Bruce, Fiona (2 July 2004). "Women on the news". News Update. London: BBC Online. Retrieved 10 February 2013. …Fiona Bruce still regards it as the best job going, and celebrates the formidable women who have gone before her.
  • "Nan Winton - First female newsreader on the BBC". Birth of Television Archive. 1 January 1960. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  • Nan Winton biodata
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