132-475: The WeatherGens were a group of twelve fictional human individuals representing the weather's various moods, televised as short segments at the conclusion of ITN news bulletins on ITV to introduce ITV National Weather reports. They were created by the graphic designer Rob Kelly and were commissioned by Tutssels from London on behalf of the British energy company Powergen (now called E.ON UK) and designed by
264-454: A further revamp of ITV News bulletins. Despite the 2008 return of News at Ten , the other bulletins continued to use the "bongs". In February 2009, ITV News bulletins were refreshed to be more cohesive with the branding and look of News at Ten , with the studio featuring a VR view of London and an outline of the Big Ben clockface filling the "theatre of news" screen. On 22 October 2009, it
396-468: A half-hour news bulletin for ITV, every weeknight. ITV executives, however, were sceptical of that idea, because it was thought that viewers would not want a full 30 minutes of news every Monday to Friday (there had only been one half-hour news programme in Britain previously – BBC2's Newsroom , launched in 1964). However, the idea was approved on the condition it ran for a 13-week trial, and News at Ten
528-503: A host of well-known reporters and correspondents. In 1991, ITN moved into its new building at Gray's Inn Road, London (previously owned by The Sunday Times ). From this year, ITN news programmes revamped and moved to be presented from the ITV newsroom, foremostly to show the impressive atrium in the newly purchased headquarters – with the exception of the lunchtime programme which continued with its own studio and music, but took on elements of
660-819: A joint venture together with digital entrepreneur Matt Heiman. The company packages footage from the ITN archive and syndicates it to a range of commercial partners including Myspace , YouTube and MSN . In March 2017, the company was sold to Sky, who paid £2.6m for ITN's stake. ITN Consulting was the management consultancy arm of ITN, combining the resources of ITN with the consulting team's experience to advise global media companies on issues spanning all areas of strategy and operations, including financial planning, marketing, scheduling and content, recruitment, and interim management. With partner Venture Consulting, it had offices in London, Milan, Dubai, Singapore and Sydney. It operated as
792-539: A lengthy battle with the ITC, a half-hearted ITV News at Ten was introduced (hosted by McDonald) in January 2001, although as part of the agreement, the bulletin was only shown at 22:00 for three days a week to accommodate other programming. The programme returned with a massive 8 million viewers, but figures soon fell drastically. Cashing in on the 1999 loss of News at Ten , BBC director-general Greg Dyke announced that
924-706: A long tradition of television news. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV. The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society , Emmy Awards and BAFTAs . Between 2004 and 2008, the ITV Evening News held the title of "RTS News Programme of the Year". The flagship ITV News at Ten has won numerous BAFTA awards, and also being named "RTS News Programme of
1056-445: A network with its consultants working on engagements globally and focused "on how strategy can be implemented to deliver to real change". ITN Consulting stated that "an understanding of how global, regional and local media markets conflict and come together enables them to identify the opportunities this creates". They took an external, outsider perspective as well as having the viewpoint of senior "insider" media executives. ITN Consulting
1188-603: A new foreign affairs unit. The new look brought forth another rearrangement of signature tune The Awakening , more direct than its predecessors, and a new opening sequence featuring "Big Ben" marking the time for its respective news programmes; it also saw the ITN logo removed entirely, the production slide instead being the ITV News logo with "ITN year" in small type underneath. In January 2022, ITV announced that their Evening News programme would be extended to become an hour-long programme at 6:30pm from March. In July 2022, it
1320-419: A nightly sports update and a preview of the following day's newspapers. Mark Austin took over main presenting duties on 3 January 2006. The rebranded programme again saw new titles, this time featuring people walking over the face of Big Ben and has lately followed a more "sensationalist" approach to its main headlines. When ITV executive chairman Michael Grade joined ITV, he made it clear that he saw news as
1452-425: A piece of light music composed by John Malcolm , used from 1955 up to 1982. As the years went on, full-length ITN news programmes were launched with their own theme music and particular branding (first News at Ten , then First Report , and finally News at 5.45 ), meaning that by its end, Non-Stop was only in use on generic news bulletins mainly at weekends. In 1967, ITN editor Geoffrey Cox suggested launching
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#17327798231401584-491: A reputation for high-quality journalism and innovation. ITN's News at Ten also prompted the BBC to gradually expand its 20:50 news bulletin from ten minutes to fifteen, twenty and then twenty-five minutes. The Nine O'Clock News began broadcasting in 1970 as News at Ten's rival. ITN also established other programmes in the ITV schedule. First Report , a lunchtime bulletin began in 1972 and by 1976, News at 5.45 commenced. This
1716-401: A reputation for high-quality journalism and thorough analysis. Further expansion came with the launch of overnight television on ITV in 1988, with ITN providing hourly news bulletins, as well as the half-hour ITN Morning News to conclude the overnight schedules. Until the 1990s, the individual ITV companies had an obligation to provide a national news programme, which required them to take
1848-457: A secret – it can sing as well ". The 1974 general election results were presented under the title The Nation Decides by Peter Snow . Technology had also vastly improved. "VTF30", a piece of technology based upon a knitting-pattern machine, provided moving computer graphics for the first time in television election coverage history. The team of Alastair Burnet and Peter Sissons provided many memorable election night programmes on ITV, including
1980-562: A share in the ITN operation. Following the Broadcasting Act 1990 , ITN had to apply and bid for a licence to provide such services on these ITV networks, and would have to fight competition in order to preserve its services, as had become the case with other ITV franchisees. The Broadcasting Act also allowed the Independent Television Commission to introduce ownership rules for news providers. The move
2112-453: A share of London News Radio , which was based at ITN's Gray's Inn Road headquarters and operated the LBC and News Direct London radio stations. Since 5 October 1992, ITN used to operate a radio news service on behalf of Independent Radio News (IRN) but on 15 October 2008, IRN announced that Sky News Radio was to replace ITN as its main supplier from March 2009. While news production remains
2244-483: A shorter late night bulletin at 11 pm. Consolidation of the ITV network under a unified ITV brand also saw the removal of the on-screen ITN brand which was replaced with ITV News . From this point, the ITN brand was gradually phased out and it is now only referenced to in the end production caption. In 1997, ITN started producing the Royal Christmas Message every other year. The early years of
2376-419: A single newscaster – Trevor McDonald won the role – and composer Dave Hewson was assigned with the responsibility of musical changes. The famous theme tune was re-arranged by Hewson and re-recorded in a slightly higher pitch but the timpani and chimes remained. In 1995 ITN adopted a unified look for all ITV bulletins except News at Ten , extending the use of the Big Ben clockface and branding to all bulletins on
2508-409: A smaller budget than its two main rivals BBC News and Sky News . On 2 December 2007, ITV News and the ITV regional newsrooms switched from the traditional 4:3 format to 16:9 widescreen. In 2007, ITV plc's newly appointed chairman Michael Grade was reported as saying that the axing of the original News at Ten was "the worst mistake ITV ever made"; not long afterwards, plans were made for
2640-451: A stake in ITN and to continue to finance the company. In 1967, ITN was given the go-ahead by the ITA to provide a full 30-minute daily news programme at 10 pm on ITV. There was further tension with the ITV executives as they were sceptical of the idea that viewers would want a full 30 minutes of news every Monday to Friday and they were also losing valuable peak time slots which could be used for
2772-601: A transmission slot on Channel 4, The Smithsonian Channel (in North America), SBS and M6. Similar to ITN's programmes for Channel 5, the programme was a trawl through its Royal archive with experts like Ayesha Hazarika , Bonnie Greer, Polly Toynbee and Ian Skelly analysing various points in King Charles' life. ITN Productions was formed in February 2010 and incorporates the non-news operations of ITN, including
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#17327798231402904-471: A twenty-minute lunchtime bulletin was introduced into the ITV schedule – First Report , which was hosted by Robert Kee and ran from 12:40 to 13:00. This was followed on 6 September 1976 by the introduction of a new evening bulletin, the News at 545 , which ran from 17:45 to 18:00; Michael Nicholson and Leonard Parkin alternated in the newscaster chair. By this time, with three regular ITN bulletins throughout
3036-803: A unique, video licensing service for educational publishers and broadcasters around the world, was launched. It is aimed at educational publishers and broadcasters seeking to add video to their instructional products and services. Espresso was acquired by Discovery Education (part of Discovery Communications) on 7 November 2013. Setanta Sports News was a 24-hour sports news television channel produced by ITN and jointly owned by Virgin Media Television and Setanta Sports , launched on 29 November 2007. The channel ceased broadcasting on 23 June 2009, when Setanta's UK operation were placed into administration following financial difficulties. In October 2008, ITN founded digital production company Diagonal View as
3168-458: Is Mary Nightingale . In March 2004, ITN took over production of ITV London 's regional news programmes, which relocated from The London Television Centre on the South Bank to ITN's Gray's Inn Road base. On 24 January 2022, ITV announced that the 6:30pm ITV Evening News will be extended to an hour from March 2022, making it the third hour long news programme ITN will be producing for
3300-685: The ITV Lunchtime News at 1.30pm, the ITV Evening News at 6.30pm and ITV News at Ten with bulletins broadcast at various times on weekends . ITN has at times interrupted the ITV schedule to provide updates on major breaking stories of national and international importance, including the September 11 attacks , London bombings, 2005 or events involving the British Royal Family . ITN has covered every general election since 1959 for ITV, providing comprehensive coverage of
3432-500: The 1984 European elections and Election 87 , but by 1992 the faces of ITV's political coverage had changed somewhat. Election 92 was anchored by Jon Snow , with Alastair Stewart providing graphical commentary and Julia Somerville assisting with regular news summaries. Stewart and Somerville were again present for ITV's 1997 coverage of the John Major - Tony Blair election – aptly titled Election 97 – with Jonathan Dimbleby as
3564-662: The Digital One multiplex until 2003. In 2005, ITN became a shareholder in Espresso Group, a provider of digital content to more than 60% of primary schools in the UK and also internationally. Espresso services feature an extensive library of broadband teaching resources and student activities to motivate pupils and support teachers, including content from ITN Source. In May 2008, the Education Clip Library,
3696-565: The ITV News at Ten with a special 45-minute-long ITV News at Nine every Monday to Friday, hosted by Trevor McDonald in Kuwait City and John Suchet in the ITV News studio in London. The News at Nine proved to be very popular, reaching 9.1 million viewers on the first night in comparison to the 5 to 6 million for the BBC's late evening news. The ITV Evening News was extended to 60 minutes, and various ITV news specials ran throughout
3828-561: The Independent Television Commission gave ITV approval to move News at Ten. The ITV News at 10.30 launched on ITV on 2 February 2004 (the day that ITV in England, Wales and Southern Scotland came under the ownership of a single company ) and was presented by Sir Trevor McDonald . The programme was longer than its predecessor and carried an integrated regional bulletin, as well as more business stories,
3960-421: The News at 12:30 . Julia Somerville joined ITN from the BBC's Nine O'Clock News to host the new programme, with John Suchet and Jon Snow acting as relief presenters. In 1988, the programme returned to its original slot and once again became the News at One ; the presenting line-up remained unchanged. In 1989, Somerville left the programme to become a main presenter of News at Ten , leaving Suchet to become
4092-422: The News at 545 , with Martyn Lewis replacing Parkin as the relief presenter. In 1986, Nicholson left newscasting to return to war reporting and was replaced by Alastair Stewart . Leonard Parkin retired in 1987, and Peter Sissons became a main newscaster for ITN's Channel 4 News (before moving to the BBC in 1989) – it was at this point that the programme revamped. It was moved to 12:30, and appropriately became
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4224-498: The News at Ten studio set. All news bulletins began to be presented from behind a desk; a VR view over London appeared as the backdrop (different coloured versions were used depending on the time of day). Continuing the cohesive look across all programmes, VR glass screens also appeared in the studio to provide graphics and live links with correspondents and reporters. Almost all of the teal-coloured graphics of 2006 were replaced with reworked blue versions to provide some consistency with
4356-497: The News at Ten Thirty now struggled to reach 2 million viewers on any one night (though the flagship ITV Evening News regularly attracted audiences of around 6 million). In addition, ITV abandoned its 24-hour news channel towards the end of 2005, saying it was not "commercially viable". The ITV News Channel was replaced by men's channel ITV4 and the recently launched CITV channel in March 2006. On 16 January 2006, to reflect
4488-467: The Nine O'Clock News would be moved to 22:00. Whereas the 2001 ITV News at Ten was at 22:00 for only three nights a week, the BBC's Ten O'Clock News was a firm fixture at ten for six nights a week. ITV rarely started this incarnation of News at Ten on time; time starts ranging from 21:55 to 22:10 led to the programme being disparaged as "News at When?" and viewers soon switched to the BBC. Also in 2001,
4620-451: The avant-garde company New RenaisSAnce. The WeatherGens made their television debut on 20 November 1996 and were last shown on-screen on 19 October 2001. The WeatherGens were a group of twelve fictional human individuals broadcast as short segments at the conclusion of ITN news bulletins and were also used to introduce the ITV weather forecast. Each character represented the various moods of
4752-426: The "Theatre of News") for presenters to stand up in front of and present graphics to viewers. As part of the revamp, the ITV News at Ten was axed due to low ratings and replaced with the News at Ten Thirty , hosted once again by McDonald (from Monday-Thursday), and by Mark Austin on Fridays. The new programme did not fare any better in the ratings; News at Ten had once gained audiences of 10 million or more, though
4884-407: The 1960s, reporters such as George Ffitch , Alastair Burnet , Gordon Honeycombe , Huw Thomas and Sandy Gall emerged as aspiring newscasters, under the leadership of editor Geoffrey Cox . The original ITN logo, featuring a large "T" flanked either side by "I" and "N" (all encased within an outlined circle), was used from 1955 up to 1970. The original ITN theme tune was an excerpt of Non-Stop ,
5016-478: The 21st century was to prove to be a challenging period. The axing of News at Ten caused public outcry and ITN's viewership figures fell by 13.9% Political pressure and pressure from the media resulted in ITV bringing back a shorter 20-minute bulletin at 10 pm three nights a week. The programme eventually lost share to the BBC News at Ten (which launched in 2000 to capitalise on ITV's move) and ITV eventually axed
5148-528: The BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, History and Discovery, with television commissions including Climbing Great Buildings on BBC2 and Mud Men on the History Channel. ITN has produced all national news bulletins on ITV since the network was launched on 22 September 1955. Originally, the ITN logo and brand featured prominently on all news bulletins on ITV; however, since March 1999, bulletins have been branded as ITV News . Trademarks of ITV News include
5280-581: The British Royal Family, the slot had also been used to schedule an ITN documentary called The Grace of Monaco: Hollywood Princess about Grace Kelly , the American actor who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in April 1956, one of the few ITN royal titles featuring foreign-born royalty. ITN also made the documentary Charles: Our New King for Beyond Rights, with the programme scheduled for
5412-744: The Earth who distributed leaflets outside Powergen's annual general meeting at the ICC Birmingham on 13 July 1998 as part of its campaign to convince the energy company to increase its investment in renewable energy sources. ITN Independent Television News ( ITN ) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company. ITN is based in London , with bureaux and offices in Beijing , Brussels , Jerusalem , Johannesburg , New York , Paris , Sydney and Washington, D.C. ITN produces
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5544-472: The ITN coverage following GMTV: Election 2010 returned between 09:25 and 10:50. Alastair Stewart then returned with the programme at 12:30 until 15:00. ITV Wales , STV and UTV provided additional programming relevant to their coverage areas. The 2015 UK general election was held on Thursday 7 May 2015. Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham anchored ITV's coverage of the results from the main ITV News studio at ITN from 21:55 on Thursday 7 May and continued through
5676-501: The ITN name was removed from the voiceovers at the start of bulletins and reporter name-checks. The ITN name and logo is now only seen on the production slide, and is only used in ITV bulletins when referring to footage shot by ITN camera teams working for other clients (for example: the ITN name is used when both News at Ten and Channel 4 News broadcast the same piece of footage). With the outbreak of warfare in Iraq in 2003, ITV replaced
5808-463: The ITV contractor for the north and Midlands on weekends, immediately called for shorter ITN bulletins. While the ITA ruled on a minimum of a 20-minute bulletin, disagreements with the ITV companies over ITN's budget triggered the resignation of its news editor Aidan Crawley after just one year in 1956. He was replaced by Geoffrey Cox . Throughout the early years, ITN continued to develop its service to
5940-401: The ITV network with an agenda to firstly, fulfil its public service broadcasting requirements and secondly satisfy the ITV companies by attracting viewers. Under this method, ITN continued to differentiate itself from the BBC by conducting probing interviews, introducing more human interest stories and bringing ordinary people on to screen by using so-called 'vox pops' (interviews, usually held in
6072-462: The ITV news contract. By this period the main ITV companies Granada and Carlton had also viewed unfavourably the scheduling of News at Ten which became a subject of dispute between ITN and the ITV companies. ITN favoured keeping the bulletin; however, the ITV companies claimed audiences were lost at 10 pm as the news interrupted films and drama programming. News at Ten eventually ended in March 1999 with ITN's flagship bulletin moved to 6.30 pm with
6204-400: The ITV newsroom. In 1995, all ITN programmes relaunched with a unified look, using blue colours (the corporate colour of ITN at the time). A new set was created in the former Early Evening News studio, adjacent to the atrium and next to the ITV newsroom. The glass walls were coated in semi-transparent blue perspex; the left wall looked onto the lobby of ITN's building, whilst the right showed
6336-402: The ITV weather forecast with eight undisclosed agencies for a new brand of weather segments. The company selected the marketing agency Soul to produce the segments, which depicted individuals and businesses undertaking a range of daily activities and the weather was utilised to represent its differing moods. The WeatherGens were used by the international environmental network movement Friends of
6468-522: The NASA Moon landings, ITN produced five special 10-minute programmes for ITV titled Mission to the Moon – News from 1969 . The programmes took the form of news bulletins, reporting on the day's events of 1969. John Suchet, a former ITN newscaster, was the presenter of these specials; he was aided by a team of correspondents including Andrea Catherwood (who had left ITV News in 2006) and Peter Snow , who
6600-705: The United Kingdom, commissioned the London-based design company Tutssels to commission a new group of idents to introduce its sponsored weather forecasts on ITV, which they had agreed an extension to. They were named WeatherGens after PowerGen and were created by the graphic designer Rob Kelly, who was advised by PowerGen to make some of the models more threatening to reflect the issues of inclement weather. Carolyn Corben and Harvey Bertram-Brown of New RenaisSAnce, an avant-garde company that designs clothing, costumes, sets and pop videos, were responsible for designing
6732-576: The WeatherGens costumes and make-up. All of the WeatherGen models were selected by International Weather Productions, the Met Office 's business arm. Corben said of the concept, "It was perfect for us. Our initial brief – well, it was like no brief at all to start with, we were told to go mad and not to rule anything out." The project cost £500,000 and it took seven months to complete each of
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#17327798231406864-407: The Year" in 2011, 2015, 2021 and 2022. ITV News has the second-largest television news audience in the United Kingdom, second only to BBC News (and followed by other broadcasters such as Sky News , Channel 4 News and Channel 5 News ). Initially, all national news programmes on ITV carried ITN's own brand. As the ITV network consolidated from the mid 1990s onwards, ITN branding of news programmes
6996-524: The anchor. Dimbleby returned for Election 2001 and Election 2005 , aided both times by ITV News' political editors John Sergeant (in 2001) and Nick Robinson (in 2005) and a team of correspondents and newscasters around the country at polling stations. The US presidential election of November 2008 was covered by ITN on the ITV network between 23:15 and 06:00 in a programme titled Election Night Live: America Decides , which saw ITN team up with fellow news organisation NBC News ; Alastair Stewart hosted from
7128-559: The audience interested in the coverage. The BBC started the trend with its "swingometer" device. ITN's 1964 coverage presented a contraption referred to by Burnet as "KDF9" which aimed to pull in the results faster than its competitor over at the BBC. ITN's Election 66 , again hosted by Burnet and providing nine-hour coverage of the results of the election between Harold Wilson and Ted Heath , used two computer machines that Burnet described as bringing in numerous pieces of data and statistical information – Burnet also quipped, "I'll let you into
7260-458: The bongs – separated each headline as it was read out. The early opening title sequences were simplistic; for the first two years, the ITN symbol faded into a wide studio shot showing the two newscasters at the desk, with the caption News at 10 . Then, in 1969, a new title sequence was introduced: a slow pan of the Houses of Parliament was followed by a sharp zoom into the face of "Big Ben" showing
7392-411: The brand name for its news programmes, though ITN continues as the network's news provider. The network's largest franchise owner, ITV plc (through its Channel 3 franchising subsidiary ITV Broadcasting Limited), is the largest shareholder of ITN, owning 40% of the company's shares. Other shareholders are Daily Mail and General Trust , Thomson Reuters and Informa plc, each owning 20% of shares. ITN
7524-420: The busy atmosphere of the ITV newsroom. Different variations on the theme music distinguished the main bulletins. Design firm Lambie-Nairn devised the new look, which saw special arrangements of the famous News at Ten music being used for the other bulletins (as composed by Dave Hewson ). 1999 saw the biggest and largest change to news bulletins on ITV. On 8 March 1999, all ITN programmes were rebranded under
7656-575: The channel's allocation on Freeview , were cited as the reasons. In March 2004 following its acquisition of the London News Network , a company previously owned by the now merged Carlton and Granada , ITN began producing local news bulletins for the ITV London region. ITN produced More4 News between 2005 and 2009. In 2007 it began producing Setanta Sports News ; however it closed in 2009. Between 1996 and 2002, it also owned
7788-457: The channel; Hewson again composed the music. In March 1999, the "ITV News" brand was introduced and, with the loss of News at Ten , the "bongs" were extended to all ITN bulletins (despite all but one of them starting on the half-hour). The ITN name was dropped from the start of bulletins and, in 2001, from reporter sign-offs. "The Awakening" was re-arranged again in February 2004 as part of a major revamp of ITV News, and again in January 2006 with
7920-529: The company's ITV News operations integrated into) the ITV News Group. The ITV News Group also comprises the ITV regions in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, as well as ITV Sport. Its director is Michael Jermey, formerly a programme editor with ITN. On 2 February 2004, ITV News unveiled a £1 million virtual studio , with a rounded green screen (the set was nicknamed
8052-476: The contract for Channel 5's topical morning debate and chat show The Wright Stuff , just before the host of 18 years, Matthew Wright , announced he was going to leave the programme. Wright was replaced by BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine , who had been hosting a lunchtime phone-in debate show on the radio since 2003, with the programme becoming eponymously named when Vine took over in September 2018. In 2022,
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#17327798231408184-408: The contract in a three-year deal to provide news for Channel 5 from early 2012, but on a much-reduced budget. The deal followed an agreement by Sky and Northern & Shell , the then-owner of Channel 5, to terminate the 5 News contract early. In addition to a number of short bulletins, ITN provided two main half-hour evening news programmes for Channel 5 until 2021. In September 2021, Ofcom approved
8316-558: The contract was returned in February 2012, following a change of ownership at Channel 5. In August 2000, ITN launched its own 24-hour news channel in the UK, broadcast on satellite, cable and digital terrestrial. It was 50% owned by ITN and 50% owned by NTL . Carlton and Granada gradually bought out the two stakes and renamed the channel the ITV News Channel . It closed down on 23 December 2005. Poor ratings in comparison to BBC News 24 and Sky News, and ITV's desire to re-use
8448-456: The cornerstone of ITN's business model, the company has diversified from its original remit. ITN Source (originally ITN Archive) is one of the world's largest sources of historical film. ITN Productions creates multi-platform content for major global brands, covering genres such as factual, entertainment, news and corporate production. Clients that commission programmes from ITN Productions include major UK and international broadcasters such as ITV,
8580-643: The counts throughout election night and has also broadcast special programmes covering the UK budget speech given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ITN's history is inextricably linked to that of ITV as prior to the Broadcasting Act 1990 each of the ITV companies owned a share. In the 1990s, under new ownership, it was accused of abandoning its previous news style, which was broadsheet in style to mid-market tabloid with news stories that focused on personalities in
8712-404: The daily news programmes for ITV , Channel 4 and Channel 5 in the UK, and in recent years has diversified to produce a wide range of content including documentaries, sports, advertising and digital material for a range of international clients. Between 1955 and 1999, ITN was more commonly known as the general brand name of ITV's news programmes. Since 8 March 1999, ITV has used ITV News as
8844-449: The day – and each having their own look and specially composed music – the original ITN Non-Stop theme music was only seen on generic summaries and weekend bulletins. In 1982, it was finally replaced with a synthesised alternative. First Report was moved to 13:00 on 30 September 1974 and retitled News at One in 1976; Leonard Parkin and Peter Sissons alternated in the presenter's chair. Michael Nicholson continued as main newscaster of
8976-457: The election results in their own region. The then Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election for Thursday 8 June 2017. ITV News once again had Tom Bradby at the helm from 9:55 pm on ITV, using the same set design from the 2015 general election. He was joined by Professors Jane Green and Colin Rallings, along with Robert Peston and Nina Hossain. Bradby was joined through
9108-515: The election results in their region from their main studios in Belfast and Glasgow, dipping in and out of the ITV news coverage during the night. The rest of the UK had regular regional news opt outs from their own local ITV News programmes during the overnight coverage on ITV. At 06:00 on Friday 8 May 2015, ITV's breakfast programme Good Morning Britain aired their first election coverage special on ITV, Good Morning Britain having only launched in
9240-447: The famous bulletin to return to ITV. News at Ten returned on 14 January 2008, with a revised version of the original theme tune, presented by Trevor McDonald (temporarily, until November of that year, after which point Mark Austin took over) and former Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham . The studio contained a VR view over night-time London (with an outline of the Big Ben clockface superimposed on top), with dark blue and black being
9372-558: The fifteen second shots with six people from outside New RenaisSAnce employed to assist in the project. It was filmed in the style of a television advert, a route considered "radical" by Corben. Each shoot was completed in one day and the filming crew had to maintain stability of the costumes between shots in order to avoid injuring the models. The WeatherGens were first shown on television on 20 November 1996, and received letters of praise but were criticised for scaring young children. In May 2001 Powergen began reviewing its creative account for
9504-469: The first roster of regular ITN newscasters and reporters included marathon runner Christopher Chataway , Robin Day , and Reginald Bosanquet ). The unique, probing reporting style of Robin Day caused shock among politicians, finding themselves questioned continually for information – this had never been the case with the BBC. ITN also boasted the first British female newsreader, Barbara Mandell , in 1956. Into
9636-407: The former ITN On , ITN Factual and ITN Corporate divisions. Showbiz bulletins from ITN are broadcast daily on a number of television channels, including FYI Daily on ITV2 , ITV3 and ITV4 , and Entertainment News on 5 (formally called Access ) for Channel 5's range of channels. A daily showbiz breakfast show, The Breakfast Fix was broadcast on 4Music along with showbiz updates under
9768-532: The inclusion of the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in its programme titles, along with the chimes of Big Ben (known popularly as the "bongs") between headlines. The "bongs" were originally introduced for News at Ten in 1967; the other ITN bulletins used different studio designs, individual graphic sets and individual music. In 1992, News at Ten was relaunched following the decision to move to
9900-415: The key to defining any channel. On 14 January 2008, the News at Ten returned, presented by Julie Etchingham and McDonald returned to his duties again. Mark Austin joined Etchingham as co-presenter in 2009. As of October 2015, Tom Bradby has been the main presenter on the programme. The ITV Evening News has, since it was launched in 1999, been the network's most popular bulletin. Its main presenter
10032-399: The launch of the new ITV logo, ITV News revamped with a teal-coloured look. The music was remixed to become slightly 'heavier', and new opening titles were made based around the famous Big Ben clock face (see right). A specially made VR view of the ITN atrium now adorned the "Theatre of News" screen (an earlier version had been used for ITV's Election 2005 a year previously). In November 2006,
10164-602: The loss of News at Ten was a massive blow to both ITV and ITN. By the start of the year 2000, viewing figures for news programmes on ITV had dropped by about a million viewers due to the loss of the 22:00 bulletin. The regulating ITC ordered ITV to perform a review of the new news time slots and whether or not they were working. There was much opposition towards ITV from the viewing public, politicians such as Gerald Kaufman , former ITN faces including editor Nigel Ryan and newscaster Alastair Burnet, and some of ITN's then-current staff including political editor Michael Brunson . After
10296-486: The main anchor in the studio, using once again a similar set design used in 2015 and 2017, however some updates to the background were made. ITV News also used the large space of the atrium at ITN headquarters in London, using it as the election results headquarters, with Robert Peston-based there. Coverage started at 9:55 pm and aired through the night, handing over once again to Good Morning Britain at 6am, and resuming coverage from 9:25am with Julie Etchingham anchoring
10428-585: The main co-anchor of the ITV Evening News . Mark Austin continued to present some editions of the 18:30 bulletin. It was also revealed that, following his successful stint as presenter of Election Night Live: America Decides in 2008, Stewart was to present the ITN/ITV coverage of the UK general election in 2010. The semi-circular "Theatre of News" studio set, in use for five years, was last broadcast on Sunday 1 November 2009. On 22 October 2009, it
10560-625: The main lunchtime newscaster – the programme was revamped once more. In 1991, the programme moved back to the 12:30 slot, but retained the studio setting. In 1993, graphics were relaunched to bring it in line with other ITN news bulletins. News at 545 was replaced by the News at 540 in 1989 (following the introduction of the ITV National Weather forecast), and a new presenting team was formed comprising Carol Barnes , Nicholas Owen , Trevor McDonald , Fiona Armstrong , and Alastair Stewart. The programme lasted until March 1992 when it
10692-409: The moving image libraries of Reuters , ITV (including ITV Studios ), ANI , UTV Media, Fox News , Fox Movietone, Gaumont-British , Nine Network and other specialist collections. The division was closed at the end of 2016, when ITN outsourced its archive sales to Getty Images . ITV News ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV . ITV has
10824-451: The name ITV News . Under the leadership of Granada chairman Charles Allen, the channel also controversially decided to axe the flagship News at Ten bulletin. Replacing the 22:00 bulletin (and in turn the old 17:40 News at 540 ) as the flagship ITN programme was the ITV Evening News at 18:30 (fronted by Trevor McDonald). The ITV Nightly News was also introduced, presented by Dermot Murnaghan and airing at 23:00 every weeknight. However,
10956-658: The name of The Fix . From August 2013, ITN Productions was awarded the contract to produce the Premier League online and mobile highlights service for News UK . Content appears on The Sun and The Times subscription websites and mobile apps. ITN Productions also creates factual programming for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 as well as international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel , History , PBS and National Geographic . ITN has produced shows for Sky, with one of its later programmes being Harrow: A Very British School . ITN also supplied programming to
11088-461: The national PSB channels in 2022, along with Channel 4 News and 5 News at 5 . ITN is home to Channel 4 News , having produced the programme since the channel's inception in 1982. The Channel 4 News flagship programme is 55 minutes of in-depth news and current affairs broadcast at 7 pm each weekday and at 6:30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekday evening programme was anchored by journalist Jon Snow for 32 years until 23 December 2021, with
11220-499: The new revamp – such as the serif font style newly introduced for ITN bulletins. The News at 12:30 bulletin itself was renamed the Lunchtime News in 1992. The main lunchtime newscasters between 1992 and 1995 were Nicholas Owen and Carol Barnes. Dermot Murnaghan , Sonia Ruseler and Julia Somerville acted as relief newscasters until 1995, when Murnaghan and Somerville became the bulletin's regular newscasters. News at 540
11352-400: The news, leading to accusations of dumbing down . ITN's most famous news programme, News at Ten was also controversially replaced by an 11 pm news bulletin in 1999, said to be in order to allow ITV to broadcast films without the interruption of a 10 o'clock news bulletin. News at Ten was subsequently re-instated in 2001 after heavy public criticism over the change. The restored programme
11484-460: The night by former chancellor George Osborne and former shadow chancellor Ed Balls . Coverage handed over to Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid from 6:00 am, with the ITV News coverage resuming at 9:25 am, and airing through the rest of the day on ITV with Julie Etchingham anchoring the coverage through Friday. The 2019 general election happened on Thursday 12 December 2019. ITV News once again had Tom Bradby as
11616-634: The night until 06:00 on Friday 8 May 2015. They were joined in the studio by election analysts Professor Colin Rallings and Professor Jane Green. Nina Hossain presented live from the "Opinion Room" at ITN where journalists, bloggers, politicians and experts gave their view on the results of the election. From the "Opinion Room", viewers could contact the programme via Facebook and Twitter to give their views and opinions. UTV in Northern Ireland and STV in Scotland provided their own overnight coverage of
11748-617: The now-closed Teachers TV service. ITN began its own World News bulletins in the late 1980s, which were shown around the world on local television channels, particularly on PBS stations in the US , where presenter Daljit Dhaliwal (now with Al-Jazeera English ) enjoyed cult status. These were discontinued in 2001, in the face of competition from dedicated news channels such as BBC World (now known as BBC World News ), although it still provides footage to CNN International and reports often appear on PBS NewsHour . Its ITV Evening News bulletin
11880-499: The past members of the British Royal Family are also getting good viewing figures, with a programme about King George V (whose reign was from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936) achieving a rating of 1.4 million viewers when it was first broadcast. Most of these documentaries feature archive clips with contributions from historians and royal watchers like former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond or Lady Colin Campbell . As well as
12012-412: The primary colour scheme; VR glass 'sheets' also provided News at Ten logos on them. In 2007, The Guardian reported that ITV planned to take its news output "back to basics" by paring back graphics and having newscasters adopt a more formal style of presenting from behind the desk instead of standing up. This was confirmed when, on 9 February 2009, ITN refreshed ITV News to bring it more in line with
12144-435: The programme again in 2004 and moved the bulletin to 10:30 pm before bringing it back to 10 pm again in 2008. The biggest challenge came in 2001 when British Sky Broadcasting bid to supply network news to ITV as part of a consortium. ITN eventually succeeded and was awarded a contract extension to 2008. In January 2005 Sky News took over supplying bulletins to Channel 5 ; ITN had produced 5 News since its launch in 1997 and
12276-592: The programme now being presented by a range of newscasters, including Unreported World presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy . A five-minute-long news summary goes out Monday to Friday at midday. The bulletin replaced Channel 4's 30-minute News at Noon programme in late 2009, six years after its launch during the Iraq War of 2003. ITN created More4 News when the digital channel More4 was launched in October 2005. It ran at 8 pm, immediately after Channel 4 News. It
12408-577: The programme was extended by Channel 5, with the extra hour being known as Jeremy Vine Extra as it is presented by Storm Huntley rather than Vine, who starts his radio show at noon. ITN's royal documentaries have been a ratings winner for Channel 5 on Saturday nights, with programmes released about the current monarchy under names such as Harry and Meghan: Two Troubled Years , Charles and Camilla: King and Queen in Waiting and Fergie & Andrew The Duke & Duchess of Disaster . Documentaries about
12540-473: The removal of the 6.30pm news slot by Channel 5 in order for the ViacomCBS channel to schedule Neighbours at 6pm and Eggheads at 6.30pm with a new hour long 5 News programme going out on the channel at 5pm. Ofcom's approval of the channel's new conditions recognised that there will be still three-hours of news between 5-8pm over all the main public service broadcasters’ channels, and that Channel 5
12672-486: The rest of the ITV News look, but the teal clockface opening animation remained on the ITV News-branded bulletins. Jib camera pans across the studio replaced the previous title sequence; these shots were pre-recorded 10 to 15 minutes before transmission, because it is a difficult shot to achieve and cannot be done if other studio cameras are already in place. In July 2009, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of
12804-458: The sale of commercial advertising. News at Ten began broadcasting on 3 July 1967 with a newscaster team consisting of Alastair Burnet , Andrew Gardner , George Ffitch and Reginald Bosanquet . It was initially given a 13-week trial run; however, the programme proved to be extremely popular with viewers and continued for a further 32 years. News at Ten was to become one of the most prestigious news programmes of its time in British history with
12936-525: The schedules. A simulcast of the ITV News Channel aired from 00:00 to 05:30 every night on ITV1. ITN also managed to persuade big name newscasters to return to the organisation to present the special war coverage on ITV: Alastair Stewart, Carol Barnes, Angela Rippon , Jon Nicholson and Anne Leuchars were all back presenting news bulletins and regular slots on the ITV News Channel. Since 2004, ITV plc's 40% stake in ITN has been held as part of (and
13068-414: The service will focus on "video on-demand" content which they promise will be continuously updated. ITVX launched on 8 December 2022. On 22 October 2024, Ralph Blunsom, a respected anchor for ITV News’ northern division, passed away at 66. Blunsom had a notable career, working for both BBC North West and Granada, and tributes poured in from former co-stars and viewers. Trademarks of ITN and ITV News are
13200-405: The spring of 2014. Hosts Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard were joined by Tom Bradby for breakfast coverage of the results. At 09:25 ITV News resumed with their own coverage of the results with Alastair Stewart and Julie Etchingham at their anchor desks until late afternoon on ITV. During the course of the day there were regular regional news opt outs, with UTV and STV providing more extensive coverage of
13332-479: The start, ITN broke new ground by introducing in-vision and named 'newscasters' (rather than the BBC's nameless and sound-only 'newsreaders'), and reporter packages. The unique, probing reporting style of Robin Day caused shock among politicians, finding themselves questioned continually for information – this had never been the case with the BBC . There was also some early tensions with the ITV companies. ABC Weekend TV ,
13464-402: The stock exchange. The company launched 5 News in 1997 following the foundation of Channel 5 . The 1990s saw major changes to the television landscape in Britain. The growth of multichannel television saw ITV's share of audience fall. Against this backdrop ITV itself became increasingly commercially aggressive. This was to be a major turning point in ITN's history which saw a reduction in
13596-424: The street, with members of the general public), all of which were seen as a radical departure at the time in British broadcasting. As the ITN reporter and later ITN political editor Julian Haviland , put it: "My view was that at ITN we must be at least as responsible and accurate as the BBC, without being so damned boring". As ITV expanded, each ITV company that made up the network's federal structure had to purchase
13728-495: The studio backdrop and also appeared within the opening titles, and the headline bongs were also retained. The November revamp included a newly designed rectangular set and graphics featuring a colour scheme of black and gold to complement the ITV1 image and branding. A newly composed piece music called 'News Centre' was introduced, which incorporated only a few elements of 'The Awakening', the previous ITV News theme. The ITV News revamp
13860-545: The studio in London, supported by MORI -founder Bob Worcester and a team of studio guests throughout the evening. Julie Etchingham , James Mates , Bill Neely and John Irvine provided the all-important presenting and reporting duties from the United States. Stewart also presented ITN coverage of the European elections of 2009, an intimate affair with the newscaster and ITV News election analyst Colin Rallings in
13992-535: The studio. Political Editor Tom Bradby and Senior Political Correspondent Chris Ship provided regular updates, and a team of reporters gave results as they were counted around the country. The UK general election campaign of 2010 was covered by ITV under the banner Campaign 2010 , prominent in all its news and current affairs programming. There were special election-themed editions of the Tonight programme presented by ITN reporters and newscasters. Alastair Stewart
14124-423: The teal-colours of the name-strap designs and other on-screen graphics – including the atrium design – were replaced with blue. The teal-coloured opening titles and stings remained unchanged. In April 2007 ITN announced that ITV had awarded it a 6-year contract to produce ITV News, at a cost of £250 million. However, ITN announced that the new budget meant it would have to cut staff despite already operating on
14256-431: The time of 22:00. The text "Independent Television News" was shown at the start of the sequence, followed by the individual words "NEWS", "at" and "TEN", which appeared in time to the title music. The sequence was amended a year later to feature the new ITN logo at the beginning. The logo, introduced in 1970, was a simple sans-serif outline of the phrase "ITN". The basic concept of the logo remains today. On 16 October 1972,
14388-517: The traditional ITV election night graphics, Mary Nightingale hosted the ITV election party on the bank of the Thames, and ITV News Election Analyst Colin Rallings provided the all important psephological information. GMTV dedicated its entire 7 May programme to the Election, with contributions from ITV newscasters Etchingham, Nightingale and James Mates . Mark Austin and Katie Derham continued
14520-417: The use of the clock-face of the Elizabeth Tower of Westminster Palace , the chimes of Big Ben punctuating the day's headlines and the signature theme tune; The Awakening by Johnny Pearson . Throughout the early years, ITN established programmes in the ITV schedule including First Report at lunchtime, News at 5.45 in the evening and the flagship News at Ten . Today, ITV News on weekdays broadcasts
14652-404: The weather: Nimbella (cloud and rain), Brellina (rain), Gilda (sunny), Shivera (cold weather), Crystella (snow), Florta (breezy), Norwin (wind and windswept), Cyan (cold weather conditions), Mirka (fog and mist), Frice (ice and frost), Helios (cloud and sun), and Aurora (dry and hot). Powergen (now called E.ON UK), a British energy company responsible for providing electricity and gas to homes in
14784-425: Was 10 minutes shorter than its predecessor and carried less in-depth news coverage. It was also broadcast at a later time at least one day a week, which meant it was often jokingly referred to as News at When? There was increasing speculation that the News at Ten would again be moved, after under-performing against the BBC's Ten O'Clock News on BBC One which broadcasts every night at 10:00 pm. In October 2003,
14916-480: Was a period when ITN enjoyed its greatest plaudits, following Lord Annan 's 1977 report on the future of broadcasting, which declared: "We subscribe to the generally held view that ITN has the edge over BBC news." ITN obtained the contract to produce Channel 4 News when the channel started broadcasting in 1982. The programme was launched by Peter Sissons , Trevor McDonald and Sarah Hogg . The hour-long programme has been broadcast at 7 pm since it started and has
15048-401: Was an ITN newscaster and correspondent between 1962 and 1979. The first Mission to the Moon programme aired at 22:35 on ITV on Wednesday 15 July and continued the following Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday (Friday in Scotland, on STV ). In August 2009, it was announced that after 16 years co-hosting London Tonight , Alastair Stewart was to leave the regional magazine programme to become
15180-404: Was announced that the "Big Ben" branding would be removed from ITV News from 2 November to avoid perceptions of London-centricity, thus marking the first time that the clock tower has not been used in programme titles for ITN bulletins on ITV since before 1967. However, "Big Ben" hadn't gone entirely – a clockface was retained as part of ITV News' studio design from 2009 to 2013; and the clock tower
15312-516: Was born on 3 July 1967. ITN's head newscasters – Alastair Burnet, Andrew Gardner , and George Ffitch – presented the first News at Ten , and the bulletin became so popular with viewers that it was kept in the schedules after its initial 13 weeks. The programme's titles used an excerpt of The Awakening , a piece of dramatic music composed by Johnny Pearson . The famous chimes of the Westminster Clock Tower – affectionately known as
15444-475: Was created for the programme, featuring television monitors, a large video screen, and a curved desk with "News at Ten" inscribed into it. Trevor McDonald became the sole newscaster of the programme. John Suchet, Dermot Murnaghan, and Julia Somerville were relief presenters for the bulletin. Initially, the new-look News at Ten was presented from the same studio as the Early Evening News , adjacent to
15576-517: Was developed by ITN, ITV and design agency Bruce Dunlop Associates. ITV-plc regional news programmes continued to use their studio sets introduced in 2004, but with an updated colourscheme and news titles reflecting the ITV News rebrand. In December 2009, ITV News at Ten won the award for Best National Television Programme from the Plain English Awards. In April 2010, it was announced that after 12 years working at ITN, Katie Derham
15708-592: Was eventually dropped on 8 March 1999 following the introduction of the ITV News brand. ITN remains the producer of all the national ITV News programmes. ITN was set up by the Independent Television Authority to provide a new type of news service for the upcoming commercial television service Independent Television (ITV). Both ITN and ITV were launched on 22 September 1955, and the news service immediately broke new ground by introducing in-vision newscasters and reporter packages (incidentally,
15840-511: Was extensively involved in the development of business plans for local TV in the UK. It also consulted a range of national broadcasters on improving performance. The unit closed in 2012. ITN Source (formerly ITN Archive) licensed video footage from ITN's one million hours of archive content including news, drama, celebrity, comedy, music, wildlife, natural history and film. It also syndicated on-the-day news footage generated by ITN to other broadcasters and producers worldwide. The service represented
15972-495: Was founded in May 1955 by a consortium of the initial four Independent Television (later ITV) broadcasting companies, with former Labour MP Aidan Crawley as editor-in-chief. The first bulletin was broadcast at 10 pm on 22 September 1955 on ITV's launch night. Its original theme tune was 'Non Stop', by John Malcolm , which was used for the next 30 years. The bulletin was presented by former champion athlete Christopher Chataway . From
16104-435: Was jointly announced by ITN and ITV that ITV News would be rebranded from Monday 2 November. At the heart of the revamp was the removal of the famous image of the Big Ben clock tower from the opening sequence of ITV News programmes including News at Ten ; ITV executives felt, after "months of deliberation", that the imagery of the landmark promoted London-centricity to viewers outside the capital. A clockface remained as part of
16236-516: Was originally presented by Sarah Smith ; Kylie Morris took over presenting duties in June 2007 and Smith was posted to the US as Channel 4 News' Washington correspondent. In December 2009 Channel 4 cancelled More4 News . From the launch of Channel 5 in 1997, ITN provided the news bulletins for 5 News . However, in January 2005, ITN lost the contract, which was awarded to Sky News . In 2011 ITN regained
16368-611: Was renamed and relaunched, in line with other ITN bulletins. News at Ten continued to rate as the most popular news programme on television. In 1988, the programme launched specially made opening titles featuring a computer generated travel through London, up the River Thames until the camera stops at the "Big Ben" clockface. ITN's regular newscasting team in the 1980s included Alastair Burnet, Sandy Gall, Leonard Parkin, Alastair Stewart, Trevor McDonald, Julia Somerville, Carol Barnes, Fiona Armstrong, John Suchet, Nicholas Owen, and
16500-559: Was renamed the Early Evening News on 2 March 1992 and presented from the ITV newsroom adjacent to the ITN atrium. John Suchet was the main newscaster for the Early Evening News , and relief presenters included Carol Barnes, Nicholas Owen and Dermot Murnaghan. News at Ten underwent a revamp on 9 November 1992 after the departures of newscasters Alastair Burnet (in August 1991) and Sandy Gall (in early 1992, though he did remain at ITN filing special war reports for News at Ten ). A new set
16632-418: Was reported that, with the launch of the new streaming service "ITVX", the platform will feature an ITV News 24/7 service. The service will provide ITV News around the clock as well as providing an on-demand service for in-depth investigations, explanatory and eye-witness journalism. The service will not be conventional rolling news channel, however it will have 'occasional' live programmes and bulletins. Instead,
16764-399: Was seen again in the ITV News opening sequences from 2013. ITN has, like the BBC, run special through-the-night coverage on the day of general elections in Britain and on the day of presidential elections in the United States since its formation in 1955. Election 64 – The Result was hosted by Alastair Burnet, the fast-rising face of politics on ITV, and contained many visual gimmicks to keep
16896-543: Was shown on the Newsworld International cable channel in the US. From December 1997 to April 2003, ITN held a 49% stake in European news channel Euronews . ITN launched a 24-hour news channel on 1 August 2000, which in 2002 was sold to the main ITV companies Carlton and Granada , and rebranded as the ITV News Channel . It was closed down in 2005. On the same day, ITN launched a 24-hour radio station called ITN News Radio. It broadcast nationally on
17028-470: Was still committed to delivering more than 280 hours of news each year. The relaunched hour long 5 News at 5 was first broadcast by the channel on 8 November 2021, with the programme presented by Sian Williams and Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije. In addition to the channel's news, ITN was given an extra hour slot by Channel 5 in January 2022 to extend their daily current affairs phone-in and discussion show Jeremy Vine each weekday morning. In 2018, ITN secured
17160-494: Was the moderator for The First Election Debate , the first ever debate between leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom, transmitted on 15 April between 20:30 and 22:00. A weekly discussion programme also began on that date: Campaign 2010 with Jonathan Dimbleby . The weeks of special programming culminated in the 6 May election night coverage on ITV: Election 2010 , which was broadcast between 21:55 and 06:00 and presented by Alastair Stewart . Julie Etchingham fronted
17292-519: Was to leave the organisation to front the BBC's coverage of the Proms for BBC Two and BBC Radio 3. A spokesman for BBC Radio 3 confirmed the appointment but declined to give any further details. On 16 November 2012 it was announced ITV News would rebrand in January 2013. On 27 November 2012 it was understood the ITV News at 5:30 would be axed, in favour of delivering content for itv.com and creating
17424-404: Was to transform the company from a 'cost centre' to a 'profit-making business'. The move saw 400 staff made redundant, and the closure of a number of international bureaux to claw back a £10 million deficit in order to provide a competitive product to obtain the ITV news contract. Within three years the company turned to profit in 1993 with suggestions at the time that the company should be listed on
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