one of the launch team of reporters for the nightly news magazine programme ATV Today. She had been suggested the job by television broadcaster Leslie Dunn and she received a one-month trial following an audition at ATV. Career highlights In December 1949, Gay "announced the first children's programmes transmitted from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter", while the 1953 Television Annual described Gay's "most frightening afternoon", as the occasion upon which "she had to partner Mrs. Attlee in the programme which opened the Lime Grove Studios," just five months later in May, 1950. Also in 1950, she battled sea-sickness after journeying to France to "take part in TV's first-ever cross-Channel hook-up", which included scenes of "Jennifer... going through Customs and being shown round the Port of Calais". That same year saw Gay be presented with the Television Society's Silver Medal. See also Continuity announcers in the United Kingdom References External links A visual introduction to the early programmes and the bits in between... "Jennifer Gay Leaves the BBC" at Whirligig "The Continuity Booth" at the TV Room 1935 births Radio and television announcers British television presenters Living people