Alastair Yates
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Alastair Kenneth Yates (3 September 1952 – 26 July 2018) was an English
Born 3 September 1952 and brought up in
Yates, under the pseudonym Al Kay, got his broadcasting break when he began a weekly Saturday morning pop show on Radio Derby in 1973.[citation needed] That same station offered him the chance to move away from music-based shows to speech programming. He was a current affairs and news host at BBC Local Radio stations in Derby, Leicester, and Birmingham.
He made his debut TV appearance at Pebble Mill in Birmingham in 1978 presenting news bulletins for
Yates joined Sky Television from its launch in 1989, becoming the first male presenter on Sky News. In 1992 he helped to launch BBC World Service Television and stayed in his post for the re-launch to BBC World in 1995. In 1997 he was part of the launch team for BBC News 24 (now the BBC News Channel). He took a couple of years out from BBC News in 1998 to become an anchor on Deutsche Welle in Germany. He returned to the BBC in 2001, again to appear on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
He was to return to radio in 2013 when he joined Global Radio to produce and present news for Classic FM and Smooth Radio.
Yates died on 26 July 2018.
References
- ^ "In Celebration of the Life of Alastair Yates". Poetic Endings. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Alastair Yates". Programmes. BBC. 1 November 2005. Archived from the original on 19 February 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
- ^ Yates, Elspeth. "Alastair Yates obituary". pebblemill.org. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ Jackson, Paul R. (September 2018). "Yates, Alistair". Showreel. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Former BBC, Sky News presenter Alastair Yates dies at the age of 66". TV Newsroom. 27 July 2018.
External links
- Alastair Yates at IMDb