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Royal News is a specialized 24/7 News Channel. Royal News is a Lahore-based Pakistani news channel, owned and controlled by Royal Group and Leads Group. Royal News started its broadcasting in August 2007 and has millions of Urdu language viewers around the world. Some of the popular programs of Royal News are Halqa-e-Yaaran, News Today with Khalid Minhas and a lot of programs. Royal News head office is situated in lahore and controlled by its Chairman Mian Abdul Ghafoor Wattoo, Chief Executive Mian Zahoor Wattoo, Managing Director Khizer Hayat Wattoo , director Mian Abubakar Wattoo and Royal News team. Royal News is soon starting a Urdu News Paper "Pyaam-e-Mashriq"

ROYAL GROUP PROJECTS: Royal Media Network( Royal News Channel, Leads Cable Network, Urdu Daily Newspaper "Payam-e-Mashriq"). Leads University, Group of Colleges and Schools System. Royal Pakistan Express Traveling Services. Gwadar Royal Gardens Housing Scheme. Formanites Housing Scheme Lahore. Formanites City Islamabad. Royal Dairies Pakistan. Leads Construction.

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Bellini on Fire Island's Great South Bay with his two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

Jason Bellini is an American journalist, and until August 2008 was the lead news anchor for CBS News on Logo. He received the 2006 "Journalist of the Year" award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA).[1] From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a CNN correspondent. He produced stories for CNN using an unconventional method: He hit the road on assignment with a hand-held digital camera and a laptop computer, which he used for editing. He often worked as a "one-man band," filing stories he produced himself from start to finish.

Professional career[link]

1993: Bellini graduated from Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona where he was on the school Newspaper. He was a participant in the Hall of Friendship, an organization dedicated to cross cultural understanding between the Newspaper Staff and Foreign Exchange Students.

1997: Bellini earned a bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University.

1998: Bellini began his career with CNN as a production assistant in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau.

1999: Bellini made his on-air debut with CNN Newsroom, now CNN Student News – CNN's news program for middle school and high school students. He also served as a field producer for CNN International, covering the NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia. One of his Kosovo stories achieved Medalist Status in the 1999 New York Festival Awards.

2000: Bellini worked for MTV where he served as part of that network's "street team" for MTV's Choose or Lose election coverage that followed the presidential candidates on the campaign trail during Election 2000. He was also a freelance writer for Washingtonpost.com and Channel One News.

2001: Bellini spent months in New York covering the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks as the crisis evolved into an international war on terrorism. He later traveled to Central Asia to report on the story from Afghanistan. He also covered the Kashmir conflict from India. Bellini received a Gold medal from the New York Festivals for Jason's Journal: The Holy Land, a program he produced on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

2003: Bellini reported as one of CNN's 18 embedded journalists during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He reported, often from the frontlines, from his position with the U.S. Marines. In February 2003, Bellini was part of the team of CNN correspondents and anchors that covered the breaking news story of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy.

2005: Bellini became the lead news anchor for CBS News on Logo.

2007: Bellini hosts two podcasts available through the iTunes store: CBS News on Logo and Jason Bellini's Here and Now, a self-described "vlog" (video blog).

2009-2010: Bellini freelances for The Daily Beast.

Personal life[link]

He is openly gay.^[1]

Jason is the older brother of CNN's Jarrett Bellini.

References[link]

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Kay Burley (born 17 December 1960) is an English television newsreader, presenter and journalist. She currently anchors the 2.00pm to 5.00pm strand Tuesday to Friday on the Sky News station.

Early life[link]

Kay Burley was born in 1960 in Wigan, Lancashire. She was raised as a Roman Catholic.^[1] Her first reporting job was at the Evening Post and Chronicle in Wigan at the age of 17.^[2][3] She worked in local radio and TV, including Tyne Tees Television^[2] before joining TV-am in 1985 as a reporter and occasional newsreader. From 1987, she presented TV-am's first hour, filling in for Caroline Righton and covering Anne Diamond's maternity leave.^[4]

Career[link]

Burley was given her first job by Andrew Neil^[5] She joined Sky Television, launching the Sky One Entertainment Channel in November 1988 with her own documentary "The Satellite Revolution". She moved to the then fledgling Sky News in 1988.

Among many noteworthy assignments, she fronted Sky News coverage from Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In 2005, she was prominent in Sky News' coverage of both the General Election and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Burley is also known for presenting news coverage on Christmas morning on Sky News, a tradition that, as of 2011, she has upheld for the last 21 years.^[6]

Burley is also an occasional contributor to the tabloid Sunday Mirror, and in the summer of 2006 appeared occasionally on Five's news bulletins.

Criticism[link]

On 3 February 2010, Burley interviewed Peter Andre less than 24 hours after Katie Price and Alex Reid were married in Las Vegas. Andre was booked in advance to promote his new album, when Burley questioned him about Price, Reid and his children. He was also asked to comment on an interview Dwight Yorke, the father of Price's first child Harvey, had given to Sky News in October 2009. When the questions advanced to asking whether Andre feared losing custody of his children to Reid, he became visibly upset, declared "I was not prepared for this", and asked to end the interview.^[7][8] Burley's treatment of Andre garnered over 900 complaints to Ofcom.^[9]

Later in February 2010, Burley was forced to apologise on-air for offending Catholics when she joked that US Vice President Joe Biden, who had ashes on his forehead to mark Ash Wednesday, had a "large bruise" that he had picked up from "walking into a door" or from slipping on ice during his recent trip to Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[10]

On 8 May 2010, Burley was heckled during an interview outside the Houses of Parliament by a protester who chanted "Sack Kay Burley. Watch the BBC. Sky News is shit!"^[11] Burley, who was talking to Ben Page from Ipsos MORI, commented that "they don't like The Sun, they don't like us, they don't like Rupert" before the interview was abruptly terminated, with the broadcast cutting to a silent, animated Sky News logo for over a minute.^[12][13] Burley was also criticised for an interview^[14] with David Babbs, Executive Director of 38 Degrees in which she repeatedly interrupted him as he talked about the possible consequences of a coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, saying, "your views are not going to sway the people that are talking behind closed doors. [...] The public have voted for a hung parliament. We have got exactly what we voted for... so you marching down past Westminster today will make no difference whatsoever. [...] Why don't you just go home? Why don't you go home and watch it on Sky News?"^[15] The Guardian commented "Paxman, it ain't."^[12] The media regulator Ofcom received over 700 complaints about the incident from viewers, but found no breach of its code.^[16]

On 9 September 2010 Burley interrupted Labour MP Chris Bryant during an interview regarding developments in the News of the World phone hacking affair with the words, "No, no, no, you can't say that, sir... No, no, no, no, I have to interrupt you, do you have evidence for that?... Pretty strong claim if you don't!" When Bryant responded that the evidence for his statement was clearly included in the parliamentary debate that Burley was actually covering in that section of the programme, she replied, "So you are in a position to have listened to the debate and read the report and as a result you are content to say that on telly.?" Bryant responded, "I have just said that. You seem to be a bit dim, if you don't mind me saying so."^[17]

Writing[link]

Burley's first novel, titled First Ladies, was published on 12 May 2011.^[18] The book is an erotic romance set in the media industry, including television news.^[19]

Dancing on Ice[link]

Burley was a contestant for the second series of the ITV reality television show Dancing on Ice beginning on 20 January 2007.^[20] She was skating for MacMillan Cancer Care, in memory of her mother who died of breast cancer.^[21] She also donated her appearance fee to the charity. Kay went out of the show in the fifth week following a skate-off.^[22][23]

Personal life[link]

Burley is twice divorced and has one son from a one-year marriage to Steve Kutner, a football agent of Frank Lampard.^[24]

Burley is a fan of Arsenal, as she revealed in an interview in the London Lite newspaper (30 April 2009).

Burley was voted What Satellite TV magazine's "Most Desirable Woman on TV" for three consecutive years.^[25]

Her fitness regime consists of running four times a week and doing aerobics, maintaining her weight at around 8 stone 10 pounds (55 kg).^[26]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bio at Sky News
• Kay Burley @ TV Newsroom

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Simon McCoy (born 7 October 1961) is a newsreader for the BBC, and is currently a regular presenter on the rolling news channel BBC News between 8.30am and 11am. He is also a relief presenter of the BBC News at One and of BBC Weekend News.

Early life[link]

McCoy was born in Hammersmith. He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England.

Career[link]

McCoy started his journalism career at the Fleet Street News Agency in London^[1] before joining Thames TV as a researcher for Thames News in 1983. After time as a scriptwriter at Thames TV in 1986 he joined the breakfast TV station TV-am as a news editor.^[1] In 1988 Simon left to go to a new satellite channel called Sky - initially as a producer on the Sky News breakfast programme Sunrise.

After a year as a general reporter for the station he was appointed Royal Correspondent and between 1991 and 1996 Simon covered all the major stories which affected the Royal Family.

After a job which involved travel around the world throughout the years Simon took a desk job, presenting Sunrise on Sky News.^[1][2] He also presented the Tonight programme - a topical chat show involving interviews with people from the worlds of showbiz, politics and sport.

In 2003 Simon co-anchored Sky's coverage of the Iraq war on location in Kuwait and Basra. He was on air for five hours every day of the conflict.^[3]

In January 2004 Simon joined the BBC, and could be seen on BBC Breakfast and BBC News 24, initially as a cover presenter for both.^[1] In September 2005 he took over the morning slot on BBC News alongside Kate Silverton following Phillip Hayton's sudden departure after Hayton fell out with Silverton. When reviewing the papers the following day McCoy tried to point out the story, but was prevented by Silverton.^[4] In December 2007 Silverton left the shift to host the 8pm Update. McCoy currently presents the weekday 8.30-11am slot on the BBC News Channel alongside Rachel Schofield on Mondays and Carrie Gracie from Tuesday to Friday.

In 2006 McCoy stopped regular appearances on BBC Breakfast upon Charlie Stayt's arrival at the BBC, but continued to be a relief presenter on the BBC Weekend News. Since 2008 McCoy has made a number of appearances as a stand in presenter on Breakfast.

On 9 March 2012 McCoy was apparently caught asleep at the newsdesk as BBC Breakfast handed over to the BBC News Channel at 8:30am, although McCoy denied he was dozing.^[5]

Acting[link]

McCoy appeared as himself, reading the news, in the 2007 BBC Two drama Party Animals. He has also appeared in several episodes of Spooks, in the BBC1 drama Holby Blue, and in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. Simon also had a newsreading role in the 2006 Anthony Horowitz movie Stormbreaker.

In 2006 McCoy ate a pair of brown leather shoes for charity - raising around £5000 in the process.^[6]

Family[link]

McCoy has a son, Max (born 1993), from his first marriage. On 28 September 2007, he married Victoria Graham of BBC South West.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography page^{[dead link]} BBC News

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