There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programmes all day long. Some programmes are only for 3minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous.
Trevor McDonald is a popular news presenter in England in the news studio. He presents a programme called News at Ten every Monday to Friday evenings. Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a modern style of reading news and, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair!
Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the programme has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the programme. At the end of News at Ten, Trevor McDonald says, "And finally…"Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It's a famous saying in England now.
News presenters in
| The number of channels |
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| Time that the news programmes | From 3 to 60 minutes. |
| What news presenters | Write most of the . Read news. |
| Sometimes, they have to read some news preparing for it. | |
| At the end of the programme, they may add unusual or funny. | |
| popular news presenters mentioned | Trevor McDonald, who presents News at ten every Monday to evenings. |
| Kirsty Young, who sits on the when she reads news. |
