End of a Yorkshire Duo

ITV has been offering voluntary redundancy.

https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2020/11/itv-news-seeks-staff-cuts-in-regional-offices/

I'm going to miss Gaynor Barnes she is a fantastic journalist and has shown that over many years. I do also miss the tonight show that she did many years ago.

Its funny, on “Tonight” in the 90s Gaynor was second to Christine, and then it’s been the same situation in recent years on Calendar.

She also must have either presented or narrated tens and tens of different regional programmes, back when they were a thing, she was pretty much the face of Yorkshire TV regional programmes at that stage

John has obviously presented every variant of football programming over the years, I’m sure at one time in the 90s he presented a live Champions League game or two, when Yorkshire opted out of the network game to show Leeds United. Rights were obviously much easier to come by than they are now.

Some great highlights tonight on Calendar showed how much these two have achieved over 30 years a genuinely nice team will be sorely missed by us all in Yorkshire

Good tribute tonight, also they even got the network announcer to record a special announcement for the ident at 6pm. Gaynor and John don’t usually get acknowledged on a Friday

Did anyone manage to capture it please?

I did - https://tvnewsroom.org/itv-news/best-bits-john-gaynor-leave-itv-news-calendar-255244/

Thank you very much Sir!

That's a nice tribute to them both, very much an end of an era there. Loyal to the end.

Very similar vibe to the Harry Gration tribute, showing how in the past there seemed to be a bit more breathing space for lighter/sillier features

I grew up over that side of the Pennines. It’s always sad to see presenters you grew up with leave. My first memory of Gaynor was on ‘it’s a vets life’.

Notable absence of words from Christa and Geoff in the montage.