Thursday, 19 October 2017
816 Network 7
First viewed : 3 May 1987
I didn't think I'd caught the first episode of this but I do recall seeing its most controversial item, the presenter Sankha Guha making a fake cash card Blue Peter -style and then successfully extracting money from a cashpoint machine with it. I never watched it regularly as I often had better things to do on a Sunday .
Network 7 was created by Jane Hewland and Janet Street-Porter and broadcast at noon on a Sunday lunchtime on Channel Four. It was aimed at a youth audience with fresh young presenters, a fast editing style and a focus on entertainment news rather than social problems.
It only lasted 18 months but it was influential and helped land Street-Porter a plum job with the Beeb the following year.
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