BBC star leaving news programme after more than 20 years at broadcaster | H791NJ9 | 2024-03-15 21:08:01
BBC Look North presenter Jeff Brown has announced he is leaving the programme after 21 years.
Over the past 20 years Brown has been one of many presenters on Look North, first joining in 2003.
Though sport has been his speciality, he's also fronted the bulletins regularly.
Sharing the information of his departure on social media, he wrote the following,
'News simply in…after almost 21yrs with BBC Look North I'm shifting on,' he began.
'Tasks in the pipeline with BBC & others, however (as you'll be able to see) it's been enjoyable, and a huge, fantastic part of my life.
'Thanks for watching,' he added, alongside a hilarious photograph of him behind a desk in a basic enterprise up prime, get together on the underside get-up (a shirt, tie and go well with jacket paired with some shorts).
He was shortly flooded with messages of help.
'Good luck Jeff! You're probably the greatest we've,' Dan Jackson commented.
'Legend! And I don't use that phrase calmly,' Luke Edwards shared.
'Wow, finish of an period! Good luck for the longer term Jeff. Hopefully see you around,' Mark Douglas added.
In the meantime fellow BBC star Nick Owen additionally wrote: 'All the perfect, Jeff. Congrats on all your wonderful years with Look North.'
BBC Editor for the North East and Cumbria Kay Wright wrote that the presenter was going to be 'massively missed by audiences and sporting communities across the region, as well as his colleague'.
'Jeff brings immeasurable information, ardour, and delight to all that he does. And he'll be a troublesome act to comply with. However we want Jeff every success in no matter adventures he embarks on next,' she stated.
In a press release, Brown later stated presenting the show had been the 'undoubted highlight of my career' and something he might 'never have imagined once I set out as a journalist'.
'It has been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to work with such gifted and devoted teams through the years, and I'm proud to rely them as my associates,' he stated.
'I'm additionally really grateful to the many people and organisations throughout the North East and Cumbria who have allowed me to inform their tales, and to be welcomed into tons of of hundreds of houses every night time.'
He added: 'Sport has all the time been my ardour – whatever colour the group is sporting or the shape of the ball! I hope I've been capable of mirror the depth of feeling fans have for his or her groups as a result of in that respect our area is unique.'
Mr Brown began his profession on the Sunderland Echo as a young person, earlier than spending 4 years at Birmingham Submit & Mail, earlier than shifting on to The Journal newspaper in Newcastle.
He then spent seven years with ITV Tyne Tees Tv, earlier than joining the BBC in 2003.
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