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[scenic]

Does anyone know who was the first British television newsreader to be knighted?

[informashun]

sir trevor mcdonald

[kev100]

Who gets paid the paltry sum of �20,000 per week

[SpellingBee2]

Sir Alistair Burnet

[kayakamina]

Sir Robin Day ?

[SpellingBee2]

Sir Robin Day was not a newsreader

[Fibonacci]

Robin Day went to the United States to work for the British Information Services in Washington, worked as a freelance for a time, and in 1955 became a BBC Radio talks producer.

Commercial television was about to begin around that time, and ITN were looking for newscasters. Robin Day and Christopher Chataway were the first two.

and is listed on imdb
Robin Day .... Newsreader (1955-196?)

[pesky]

Robin Day was not knighted until 1981 - there was somebody a year before him, I think.

[heatherglen]

Sir Ian Tr!!!!!!!!!!!!???

[pesky]

That's who I think it is, Heatherglen