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19-672: The programme was sponsored by the News Chronicle as a form of indirect advertising to skirt the Television Act 1954 . The programme was presented by Kenneth Horne and Peter West . A panel of senior business experts judged the merit of the award and included Sir Miles Thomas , who had been chairman of BOAC and the British offshoot of Monsanto , the American chemical company at the time. This article related to

38-561: A BBC television programme is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to reality television in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . News Chronicle The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper . Formed by the merger of The Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930, it ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into

57-522: A decision which cost it circulation. According to Geoffrey Goodman , a journalist on the newspaper at the time, it was "one of British journalism's prime casualties of the Suez crisis". On 17 October 1960, the News Chronicle "finally folded, inappropriately, into the grip" of the right-wing Daily Mail despite having a circulation of over a million. The News Chronicle' s editorial position

76-524: The Daily Mail . Its offices were at 12/22, Bouverie Street , off Fleet Street , London, EC4Y 8DP, England. The Daily Chronicle was founded in 1872. Purchased by Edward Lloyd for £30,000 in 1876, it achieved a high reputation under the editorship of Henry Massingham and Robert Donald, who took charge in 1904. Owned by the Cadbury family , with Laurence Cadbury as chairman, the News Chronicle

95-563: The Daily Mail , Evening News , Weekly Dispatch and Overseas Daily Mail , was bought by his brother Harold. After 1936, Harold's son Esmond took over as chairman of Associated Newspapers. Ninety-four short stories by crime fiction writer Will Scott were published in the paper between 1952 and 1964. In 1954, it was the first paper in the world to publish the Moomin comic strip by Finnish artist Tove Jansson . In 1960, as part of

114-585: The New Standard . The name Evening News continued to feature on the titlepiece of the Evening Standard until the relaunch of the Evening News in the late 1980s. The Evening News reappeared for a few months in 1987 when it was launched by the Evening Standard ' s owner Associated Newspapers in order to counter Robert Maxwell 's London Daily News ; this sparked a price war, by

133-440: The 1850s and the 1930s can only be guessed at. (The newspapers would not publish exact figures except in their advertising, which cannot be trusted.) Some authors have carefully estimated that in 1910 the circulation of the Evening News was 300,000. Among the halfpenny evening papers, that would amount to a share of 35.7 per cent. The estimate for the average circulation of July 1914 is approximately 600,000, which would have made it

152-675: The biggest evening paper in London. During the First World War (1914-1918) the paper was widely criticised for its views on women. Women were now being treated with equality in mind. Other newspapers such as the Daily Sketch had a much more neutral approach to the introduction of women en masse into workplaces in place of men, which took place owing to the military conscription that began in 1916. Northcliffe died in 1922. Subsequently, control of Associated Newspapers , including

171-565: The bloodshed". In his autobiography Koestler notes that en route to Palestine he had stopped in Athens and had clandestine meetings with Communists and Liberals opposing the then Metaxas dictatorship, but the News Chronicle refused to publish his resulting strongly worded anti-Metaxas articles. In 1956, the News Chronicle opposed the UK 's military support of Israel in invading the Suez canal zone,

190-402: The late 19th century was fierce, and almost ended the Evening News . According to some sources the paper was losing £40,000 a year. The brothers Alfred and Harold Harmsworth bought the paper for £25,000 in 1894. In 1888 Alfred had founded a paper called Answers , which was modelled after another popular paper called Tit-Bits . Harold gave up his clerk's job to handle the business side of

209-504: The papers were aimed at a wider general public than the traditional ones, such as The Times . The Evening News became one of the leading papers in England under the control of Northcliffe. Evening newspapers were not considered to be good investments in 1900, and most of the London newspapers were losing money. At the same time the Evening News was making profit of £50,000 a year. The circulation numbers of English newspapers between

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228-473: The papers, while Alfred effectively controlled the papers with great success. Alfred later became ennobled as Lord Northcliffe, and Harold as Lord Rothermere. The brothers started several papers, of which the Daily Mail became the most influential. Under editor Kennedy Jones , the Evening News was one of the papers that transformed the English press with their so-called ' new journalism '. This meant that

247-528: The release of Koestler, who was captured by Franco's forces at the fall of Málaga and was in imminent danger of being executed. Following Koestler's release, the paper sent him to Mandatory Palestine , then convulsed by the Arab revolt . In a series of articles in the paper, Koestler urged adoption of the Peel Commission 's recommendation for partition of Palestine, as "the only practical way of ending

266-411: The same takeover that merged the News Chronicle into the Daily Mail , the Evening News incorporated another London evening paper, The Star . For some years the merged paper was called The Evening News and Star . Although it had been the biggest evening paper in London over several decades, by the 1970s the Evening News was struggling with financial problems and falling sales, for television

285-522: Was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987. It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London. After financial struggles and falling sales, it was eventually merged with its long-time rival the Evening Standard in 1980. The newspaper

304-600: Was considered at the time to be in broad support of the British Liberal Party , in marked contrast to that of the Daily Mail . As part of the same takeover, the London evening paper The Star was incorporated into the Evening News . Notable contributors to the News Chronicle and its predecessors included: Evening News (London) The Evening News , earlier styled as The Evening News , and from 1889 to 1894 The Evening News and Post ,

323-516: Was eating away its market share. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid in September 1974, and stopped printing on Saturdays in June 1979. In October 1980, Associated Newspapers announced that the newspaper would be closed at the end of the month. The last issue was on 31 October 1980. The paper was merged with its long-time rival the Evening Standard . For some time the resulting paper was called

342-678: Was formed by the merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle on 2 June 1930, with Walter Layton appointed as editorial director. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , the paper took an anti-Franco stance and sent three correspondents to Spain in 1936-37: Denis Weaver, who was captured and nearly shot before being released; Arthur Koestler (to Málaga); and, later, Geoffrey Cox (to Madrid). The paper's editorial staff took an active part in campaigning for

361-463: Was revived for an eight-month period in 1987. The newspaper was founded by Coleridge Kennard and Harry Marks . The first issue appeared on 26 July 1881. It was the first popular evening paper in London. It was priced at one halfpenny , distinguishing itself from the more serious penny papers such as The Times . The first issues were printed on light blue paper, and later editions on yellow and green paper. The rivalry between halfpenny papers in

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