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as an announcer and newsreader, where she quickly became one of the station's most popular faces. In 1980, while working as part of the announcing staff, McDermott devised the idea of utilising a puppet during the regular children's birthdays' slots, based upon her previous work at Westward alongside
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McDermott left Anglia's presentation department when in-vision continuity was phased out at the station in the late 1980s. She later became one of the chief anchors for the East sub-regional edition of
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pm slot from Monday to Thursday. In January 2012 her programme was dropped from the Radio Norfolk schedule.
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McDermott began her broadcasting career in the 1970s as a continuity announcer and newsreader for
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between 1990 and 2001, and continued to work on a range of other regional programmes.
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In 2014 McDermott began appearing as a reporter on Norwich television station
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This biographical article related to British television is a
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In 1979, the year of the ITV strike, McDermott joined
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television presenter
Anglia Television
Westward Television
Plymouth
Anglia Television
Gus Honeybun
Anglia News
99.9 Radio Norwich
BBC Radio Norfolk
Desmond Barrit
pantomime
Pavilion Theatre
Gorleston
Mother Goose
Anglia television
Paul Lavers
Mustard TV
The TV Room Plus – Anglia TV announcers' profiles
Archived
archive.today
Listen to Helen McDermott's hit record
The Continuity Booth – BC
BFI profile – Helen McDermott
"99.9 Radio Norwich – Helen McDermott"
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"BBC Radio Norfolk changes its schedule in the New Year"
BBC News
"OhYesItIz – Traditional Family Pantomime"
"Panto email falls foul of filth filter"
"Mustard TV's picks of the week"

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