Michael Wilson is a British TV presenter.
Wilson was Business Editor for
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the hea ...
and could be seen at the
London Stock Exchange talking to various people about the big news in business as well as looking at stock markets across the World. He became a Freeman of the City of London in 2005 and was voted Broadcast Business Journalist in the same year. Michael is television's longest serving business editor.
He began his television career at Thames Television in 1979, and became one of the station's leading current affairs reporters and presenters, and in 1987 founded Thames' flagship show, The City Programme. In the 1990s he also presented London News Radio's Breakfast Show and helped launch Reuters Financial Television.
Wilson joined Sky News in 1989 and was part of the Sky News team for the 1992 UK general election, the first general election covered by Sky News. Wilson left towards the end of 1992, to become a presenter on
GMTV
GMTV (an acronym for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited, was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 ...
,
where he presented the first weekday programme with
Fiona Armstrong. However, their partnership did not last long as ratings dipped. Fiona left and Wilson founded the 6-7am GMTV News Hour, with
Eamonn Holmes and
Lorraine Kelly taking up the Monday to Friday roles as main GMTV presenters, with
Anne Davies as newsreader and relief presenter. The News Hour broke television early morning viewing records by achieving one million viewers in less than six months.
Wilson left in 1995 to return to
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the hea ...
and stayed with for 14 years as Business Editor and launched Sky Business Report, the news channel's daily evening money programme until he left at the end of May 2009.
Sky News names Sunday Telegraph's Mark Kleinman as City editor
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Since leaving Sky News, he has returned to GMTV, where he has been given a reporting role as a business analyst. Michael has also regulalrly appeared on Arise news as a business analyst. He is also broadcasting on other platforms, chairing international conferences and has been commissioned to write a book about the post-recession world.
References
External links
Michael Wilsons Biography
Michael Wilson official website
British television presenters
Sky News newsreaders and journalists
GMTV presenters and reporters
People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British business and financial journalists
People educated at Scarborough High School for Boys
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