Pam Royle

Biography

Royle was brought up mostly in North Yorkshire, but also in South Africa and Devon. After graduating with a joint honours degree in English Language and Literature from Newcastle University she taught English and Drama at a Chinese girls' school in Hong Kong. She has also worked in advertising for the Evening Gazette and as an assistant librarian at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. Royle is a qualified Voice Coach with LLCMtd certification.

Television

Royle began her TV career in Hong Kong, where she also trained the voices of radio and TV presenters. On her return to the UK, she joined Tyne Tees Television in 1983 as a weather presenter. She later moved to Central Television as a continuity announcer before working as a weather and travel correspondent for ITN World News covering Europe and, on the evening of the 1987 General Election, the world. After this, she joined ITN as a graduate news trainee.

By 1988, Royle had been recruited by LWT as part of the launch presenting team for LWT News. She later became chief anchor for the magazine programme, Friday Now. She rejoined Tyne Tees in 1989 as a main presenter of the nightly news magazine programme, Northern Life, alongside Paul Frost. She continued as a main presenter when the programme became Tyne Tees Today and also presented the North edition of Tyne Tees News.

In 1996, following the arrival of Mike Neville, she became a bulletin presenter and main stand-in anchor for Neville. Three years later, she presented the programme's short-lived lifestyle spin-off Primetime, which in spite of good ratings was axed after just four weeks on air. She became the presenter of the North edition of North East Tonight in 2005 following the introduction of the two sub-regional versions of the programme. Royle moved to the South edition in September 2006.

On 13 February 2009 the final North and South editions of the programme aired. On 25 February 2009, ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border merged news output whilst the respective programme titles were retained. Royle now presents both ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.

Alongside her work on news, Royle has worked on a number of other regional programmes on ITV Tyne Tees including Your Town on the Telly, Weather or Not with Bob Johnson, Northern Skies and North East Today. In January 2009 she presented the feature series Our Gardens which aired on both editions of North East Tonight.

Pam celebrated 21 years as a newsreader in the North East in September 2010.

Media Work

Royle is an accomplished voice over artist and can be heard on many of ITV's 'Signed Stories' for Children with a wide range of character accents. In recent years, Royle has offered media training for business people to help with interview techniques for television, radio and newspapers.

Royle also hosts corporate events including The Northern Business Awards and Flavours of Hambledon.

Charity work

Royle spends a lot of her own time working for North East charities. She is a patron of the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS), North East Ladies Day (NELD), Durham St John Ambulance, radio stations TFM and Magic 1170's "Cash for Kids", Evening Chronicle's "Sunshine Fund", and Evening Gazette's "Make a Child Smile". Royle also helped to promote the work of the Salvation Army for sixteen years and was a member of the advisory board.

Personal life

Royle was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham in 2002 and made a Fellow of Sunderland University in 2015.

She is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and Royal Yachting Association, with qualifications in personal watercraft, radio operation and powerboats.

She was born in North Yorkshire and currently resides in County Durham.