103-543: ITV London is the on-air brand name used by ITV Broadcasting Limited for two broadcast franchises of ITV, Carlton Television (weekdays) and London Weekend Television (weekends) in the London ITV region. Its terrestrial digital signal is transmitted from Crystal Palace in South London. As part of a network-wide rebrand, ITV1 London was formed on 28 October 2002, as a unified on-air service provided to viewers for both
206-580: A " Dormant company ". ITV London is also unique in that it supplies the network feed for the other franchises and is the sole alternative ITV region to Sky , Freesat and Virgin Media customers. This service, available on channels 973, 977 and 853 respectively, is so that audio description services, which are only carried on the London variant on these services, are readily available to all viewers. Other regional variants are available by manually searching, but London
309-523: A channel, Carlton Kids , Carlton World , and another channel named 'RAW!' shared the second. Carlton Cinema received an EPG position of its own, but would be periodically closed down to provide bandwidth for "On Sport 2" during the ONdigital days. Carlton Cinema was the Carlton channel which showed classic movies , but also unusually for a movie channel, cartoons . This ceased transmission on 31 March 2003,
412-410: A generic ITV London logo and An ITV Production caption against a blue squared background. This was replaced in 2006 by a blue caption featuring the new ITV1 logo with the words "a production for" above it. In 2013, it was replaced by a white ITV News caption with the words "© ITN year ", to align with ITN 's and ITV plc's other national and regional news bulletins. Today, the only distinction between
515-487: A heart shape, before a star shaped light is emitted from the heart shape, before the screen changes to the Carlton logo, now with added star in top right corner, against a spinning stars background of different colours, with ITV logo beneath. This look has received criticism, not concerning the idents themselves, but because these idents replaced the brands used by both Central and Westcountry . The idents were later partially adopted by HTV following its sale to Carlton, with
618-763: 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
721-445: 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
824-511: A new in-house look was launched featuring changing backgrounds of colours with a translucent Carlton logo in the centre of the screen, becoming opaque and white at the end of the ident. These idents lasted until 22 November 1996, but were deemed not exciting or brash enough for Carlton executives. Lambie-Nairn devised the new set on 25 November 1996, featuring the Carlton logo against a brightly coloured background and various animations occurring. This could be interaction between other letters in
927-570: A newly opened playout centre managed by London News Network , a subsidiary company co-owned by Carlton and London Weekend Television from LWT's facilities on the South Bank in London. At the stroke of midnight, following ITN 's Into The New Year bulletin featuring the Westminster clock tower chimes, technicians at the Crystal Palace transmitter switched from Thames' Euston Road headquarters to
1030-419: 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
1133-406: A partnership with Granada and BSkyB to bid for some of the multiplexes for the new digital terrestrial network. In June of that year, it was successful in its application, and began the service, OnDigital , under the condition BSkyB withdrew from the group. OnDigital was rebranded as ITV Digital in 2001, before its collapse in 2002. In September 2002, Carlton and Granada, having now acquired all
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#17330929559801236-402: 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 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),
1339-448: A record fine of £2 million for multiple breaches of the UK's broadcasting codes . The scandal led to an impassioned debate about the accuracy of documentary production. Changes in legislation concerning media ownership enabled Carlton to buy out many of the other ITV stations, including Central Independent Television , Westcountry , and part of HTV (via Granada ), as well as the rights to
1442-534: 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
1545-401: 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
1648-507: A series of articles alleging the wholesale fabrication of a much-garlanded 1996 documentary , The Connection , which had purported to film the route by which heroin was smuggled into the United Kingdom from Colombia . An internal inquiry at Carlton found that the allegations made by The Guardian were in large part correct, and the then-regulator of the industry, the ITC , punished Carlton with
1751-541: 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
1854-450: 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
1957-473: 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
2060-448: 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
2163-583: 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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#17330929559802266-795: 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
2369-452: 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
2472-460: Is Carlton" or "You're watching Carlton." Unlike Thames, which had been both a broadcaster and a production company, Carlton chose to commission most of its programming from independent production companies although its contract to hold the ITV franchise licence disallowed the company to commission all programming so Carlton still had to produce a minimal amount of programming in-house. The first Carlton-produced programme to be broadcast nationally
2575-552: 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 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
2678-494: Is now known as ITV Consumer Limited and legally operates ITV plc's websites. As Carlton's name has no relation to its region, its on-screen identity has been completely removed (along with those of HTV , LWT and GMTV ). Other regions have kept their original company name as a region name and in their local news name. Carlton Television was originally set up by Michael Green's Carlton Communications to bid for an ITV franchise after Green failed to buy into Thames Television ,
2781-486: Is sponsored by a different company to that of London weekdays. With the merger of Carlton and Granada, Carlton Television and LWT are now run as a single entity ( ITV London ), with a single management team appointed to both companies. Both continue to have a separate legal existence however, and still have separate licences, although this is now just a formality. Upon merger, Carlton lost recognition to programmes made by their companies, which became branded as Granada and
2884-532: 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 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
2987-468: Is the only region to be given an exclusive EPG slot. ITV London was based at The London Studios , on the south bank of the River Thames , the former home of London Weekend franchisee London Weekend Television . The centre was chosen due to both companies presence in the centre; Carlton having leased space within the facility, alongside GMTV , since 1993. The contracted news service London News Network
3090-720: 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
3193-591: 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,
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3296-543: 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,
3399-473: 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
3502-521: 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
3605-563: 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
3708-613: The Carlton and LWT franchises, running on weekdays and weekends respectively. It replaced the unique branding used by both franchisees with a unified service, offering the same service and news all week round. Legally, both franchises remained separate, but they are run by the same operating board and from the same facilities. Both licences are now held by ITV Broadcasting Ltd, but the original two companies still legally exist as Carlton Television Ltd and London Weekend Television Ltd. Each of these companies is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed on Companies House as
3811-510: The Carlton logo, so the Carlton Westcountry and Carlton Central regions were simply known as ITV1 Carlton . Granada-owned franchises preferred simply to place text of the region name under the ITV1 logo. This went on until December 2003, when Carlton dropped the practice, resulting in changing the brands from Carlton Central to ITV1 for Central England , from Carlton Westcountry to ITV1 for
3914-506: The Children's Entertainment award. During a 1994 review, ITC commented that Carlton had made improvements, in its factual and drama output, while its children's programmes were 'impressive', but more remained to be achieved. In 1995, its regional programming was regarded as high quality but with few innovations; The Good Sex Guide was guilty of breaching taste and decency requirements with little educational classifications, which resulted in
4017-465: The ITV network, as one notable commission with wide publicity was The Good Sex Guide , inviting scorn and derision from conservative newspapers, before it had actually been broadcast. Aptly, its first commercial break featured an advert for the Vauxhall Carlton . In May 1994, the Independent Television Commission criticised a number of ITV stations as part of its review for the first 12 months of
4120-510: 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
4223-601: The LNN playout centre from where Carlton went on-air with an opening ident featuring the then Town Crier of London, with the then-famous slogan of Carlton, "This is Carlton Television for London" , ringing the bell three times, and the first announcement from continuity announcer Graham Bannerman. He started the first continuity announcement for Carlton with these words: "And a very Happy new year. Welcome to 1993, and our first programme live from Trafalgar Square , here's Chris Tarrant with A Carlton New Year." The station's first programme
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4326-404: The London franchise, in 1985. On 16 October 1991, Carlton won the "Channel 3" franchise to broadcast to London during weekdays from January 1993, as a result of winning the silent auction used to renegotiate the new ITV franchises. Thames bid £32.5M, while Carlton Television placed a bid of £43.2M and CPV-TV placed a bid of £45.3M. CPV-TV was the highest bidder, but was eliminated for failing
4429-565: The Rank library on video and DVD via its own label in the UK, and via A & E Home Video , Acorn Media, MGM Home Entertainment , and Lions Gate Home Entertainment in the USA. A large number of these films were screened on Carlton's digital movie channel, Carlton Cinema ; however, it closed in March 2003. The merger with Granada led to the use of the Carlton name falling into disuse, and Carlton Video became part of Granada Ventures. In 1997, Carlton formed
4532-466: The Westcountry became ITV1 Westcountry , prior to regional programming in their respective areas. Since 28 October 2002, Carlton Television (in common with all the other ITV companies, except Scottish Television , Grampian Television , Ulster Television and Channel Television ) has been known on air simply as ITV1 (London Weekdays). Unlike London Weekend Television , Carlton Television did not note
4635-742: The Westcountry . The HTV regions were re-branded ITV1 Wales and ITV1 West of England in 2002. On 2 February 2004, Carlton Communications plc merged with Granada plc , creating ITV plc , which now owns all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales under the ITV1 brand (Wales still uses its own on-screen identity as ITV1 Wales , but now also uses English ITV1 continuity since 16 January 2006). The three English Carlton ITV regions were reverted to their previous names: ITV1 for Central England again became ITV1 Central , ITV1 West of England became ITV1 West and ITV1 for
4738-430: The archives of ITC Entertainment and its former sister company ATV . Rank Film Distributors , including its library of 740 films, was purchased by Carlton in 1997 for £65 million. HTV was the only region owned by Carlton not to be subject to a full on-screen rebrand as 'Carlton'. Both 'HTV West' and 'HTV Wales' stayed with their then-current idents; however, upon Carlton's purchase, the animated introduction and music to
4841-596: The auction had been won fairly. Carlton did not buy Thames' studios, instead having its headquarters in St Martin's Lane in the West End and opting to rent transmission space at LWT's London studios . Also, unlike Thames which had been both a production company and a broadcaster, Carlton chose to commission all of its programming from independent production companies. Carlton Television took over from Thames at stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (1 January) 1993, broadcasting from
4944-411: The capital would appear against a brightly coloured background with the Carlton logo in the top left corner, and would say the phrase, "This is Carlton, television for London", or other variations of the theme. In excess of sixty idents were produced and used from 1993. This was replaced by a single montage of individuals used from later on from 6 December 1993 until 1 September 1995. On 4 September 1995,
5047-487: The caption A Carlton Production , with For London added for regional programming, while LWT used a generic purple caption with their logo added into the background. The LWT logo was also laid out in a purple box clearly at the top, with the caption An LWT Production beneath and the Granada plc logo at the bottom. These endboards lasted until 2 February 2004, when ITV plc was formed and both regional captions were replaced by
5150-504: The case with the BBC . There was also some early tensions with the ITV companies. ABC Weekend TV , 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
5253-560: 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
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#17330929559805356-529: The company receiving two written warnings from the ITC. Once again, in 1997, Carlton was criticised for failing to ensure its programming complied with the programmes code, while the number of formal interventions from the ITC had increased from four in 1995 to eight; but its regional programming continued to be of high quality. Carlton found itself at the centre of a major controversy about truthfulness in broadcast journalism in May 1998, when The Guardian carried
5459-520: The company's Nottingham studios and gained the in-house production arm. The studios were booked by independent production companies. Carlton was originally based in a small office building in St. Martin's Lane in Central London, with transmission being provided by London News Network , a company jointly owned with LWT and based at The London Studios that also provided a seven-day news service. Following
5562-471: 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,
5665-408: 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
5768-550: 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
5871-456: 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,
5974-629: 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
6077-561: The creation of ITV plc in 2004, Carlton's office in St Martin's Lane was vacated and the operations transferred to The London Studios, albeit as part of the ITV plc operations housed there. ITV London's news operation moved to ITN on 1 March 2004. The transmission operation moved to the HD Technicolor Playout Centre at Chiswick. Carlton's on-screen identity was launched on 1 January 1993 with an ident package featuring London personalities. These people, who lived and worked in
6180-479: The first year, Carlton launched 43 brand new series and 20 new single programmes, sustained audience levels and played a full part in ITV network; successes far outweighed failures.' A few days later, Carlton won two awards from the Royal Television Society's 'programme and tech awards' in London; Margie Clarke was named 'Best Female Presenter' for Carlton's The Good Sex Guide ; while Old Bear Stories won
6283-407: 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
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#17330929559806386-451: The franchises in England and Wales , made the decision to remove all regional idents, continuity and branding, and replace them with the single brand, ITV1. English regional idents were to only precede regional programming, and regional announcements were pre-recorded from London (Wales gets on-screen recognition prior to all programming, see ITV1 Wales ). Unlike Granada-owned regions, Carlton used dual-branding on its regional idents with
6489-512: The idents were replaced by the sequences and audio in use with Carlton's graphical package. However, the logo and end-board of the ident remained unchanged, using the generic hearts look of 1999. Carlton also did not acquire most of HTV's production facilities; these were retained by Granada. The ITC archive is financially lucrative, since it includes such popular series as Thunderbirds , The Prisoner , and The Saint , as well as such feature films as On Golden Pond . Carlton released much of
6592-461: 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
6695-402: The last day (25 October) of its regional identity on-air. However, the Carlton brand continued to be seen on production captions until 2004. Since Carlton and London Weekend Television now use identical presentation and logos, the division between the London weekday and weekend franchises is now invisible, although the old LWT - now ITV1 (London Weekends) - does have London Weekend Weather , which
6798-516: The last of the five Carlton channels to do so. Carlton Select was the main entertainment channel from Carlton, and broadcast both in the UK and Africa. It time-shared with the Carlton Food Network, and ceased transmission in March 2000. Carlton World was a general entertainment and factual channel broadcast in the evenings, with sister channel Carlton Kids broadcast in the daytime. This ceased transmission in February 2000. Carlton Kids
6901-651: 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
7004-435: The name, letters being replaced by objects, or the letters becoming part of something larger, such as a crossword of places in London. Thirty sequences were produced, including some designed especially to introduce certain programmes, and versions for Central were also introduced two years later on 27 April 1998. These idents were used until 3 September 1999. On 6 September 1999, Carlton's boldest rebrand yet occurred, and it
7107-461: 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
7210-422: The new franchise in 1993. Carlton Television was condemned for providing a wide range of 'unimpressive and very disappointing' programmes for the ITV network, which were 'neither distinctive nor noticeable high quality'. This criticism came after Carlton and Granada secretly planned to axe News at Ten in the chase for ratings, a move which was foiled by the ITC . Carlton, angered by this criticism, responded: 'In
7313-400: 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
7416-614: 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
7519-827: The opening films from said look, although with the HTV logo and ITV Hearts ending slide being retained. Carlton used a number of continuity announcers throughout the years. Some notable Carlton commissions are listed below: For other details about local news and non-news programmes for London, see London News Network . Between 1996 and 2003, Carlton owned a number of extra channels, carried initially on analogue cable, and also later on their flagship platform, ONdigital too, although none of them ever made it onto Sky Digital . However, three closed in 2000; and all five were closed by 2003. Most were closed due to funding issues and lack of loyal viewership. They all time-shared on three EPG positions. Carlton Food Network and Carlton Select shared
7622-448: The other regions at this time received a regional ident with the region name below the ITV1 logo. Any reference to the service being in London is made in the voiceover alone, or through the programme titles, such as London Tonight . Some identity remained on the regional programming end boards however, as each company still produced programmes for the region: Carlton used a red and orange version of their star idents used prior to 2002 with
7725-494: 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
7828-435: 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
7931-582: 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
8034-572: 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
8137-476: The quality threshold; since both Thames and Carlton were deemed to have passed the quality threshold, the franchise was awarded to Carlton for having submitted the higher cash bid of the remaining two companies. Carlton also bid for the South and South East franchise, losing to Meridian Broadcasting . Some commentators consequently speculated that Thames had fallen victim to a "government vendetta", whilst others felt that
8240-419: The region continued to be provided by LNN until 1 March 2004, when ITN took over production of London Tonight , resulting in the move of the programme from The London Studios to ITN's headquarters at Gray's Inn Road . Other regional programmes continued to be produced for the region by the two legal franchises, Carlton and LWT, and the companies were accredited at the end of the production until 2004, when it
8343-478: The relevant area, for example, all programmes made in London became branded as Granada London . From 16 January 2006, all programmes produced by any ITV plc owned region were branded as ITV Productions and in 2009 this became ITV Studios . Carlton was a publisher broadcaster who never made any of its own programming itself. Carlton productions that required studio space were booked at Lenton Lane when Carlton bought Central Independent Television in 1994, obtaining
8446-468: 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
8549-508: 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
8652-452: 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
8755-424: 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
8858-450: The two companies are still separately licensed. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc under the licensee of "ITV Broadcasting Limited". Carlton has been branded on air as " ITV1 " since 28 October 2002 ("ITV" between 14 January 2013 and 14 November 2022). Carlton Television Ltd, the original holder of the licence (renamed Carlton Broadcasting Limited on 1 February 1997), has since been dissolved. Carlton UK Television Limited however
8961-569: The two original regions on-screen is that local weather forecasts broadcast from Friday night to Sunday is branded as London Weekend Weather , and is sponsored by a different company to the weekday forecasts. On 14 January 2013, the station's on-air identity was changed to ITV , along with all other ITV plc-owned franchises. On 15 November 2022, the on-air identity was reverted back to ITV1. ITV London itself doesn't make any programmes, as all productions were completed by external companies, Carlton, LWT or London News Network. The News and Sport for
9064-474: 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
9167-487: Was Surprise Party , effectively the same format as This Is Your Life , previously a mainstay of predecessor Thames Television. Hosted by Michael Parkinson , the first celebrity to be the subject of the show was entrepreneur Richard Branson . At the end of the hour-long show, Michael Parkinson told viewers to keep their eyes out for another Surprise Party . However, no further programmes were ever made. Alarm bells had been ringing before Carlton even transmitted as part of
9270-531: 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 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
9373-425: 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,
9476-532: Was a children's channel and showed most of all of Carlton's children's imports, and programming from Carlton's regions. Time-shared with Carlton World , it ceased transmission in January 2000. Carlton Food Network was the Carlton channel devoted to cookery , and time-shared with Carlton Select. It was later rebranded "Taste CFN", and ceased transmission in December 2001. ITN Independent Television News ( ITN )
9579-480: 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
9682-462: Was also based, produced and broadcast from the centre. The London Studios closed in 2018. The services' on-screen identity has been generic throughout its existence, and has used no on-screen branding to identify it as ITV London, with the exception of one junction after the launch of the 2003 network rebrand. Since launch, the region has seen the plain generic idents seen by the rest of the country, without any regional variance identifying it as London;
9785-454: Was also to be its last. While Granada and UNM regions were about to adopt the "Hearts" generic look, Carlton refused the look and instead adopted a package that related back to the Hearts, but put their own distinct take on it. Lambie-Nairn was once again commissioned, and a dozen idents were produced and were used depending on the programme to go before it. The idents featured opening films featuring
9888-511: 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
9991-509: 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
10094-504: Was replaced by Geoffrey Cox . Throughout the early years, ITN continued to develop its service to 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
10197-419: Was replaced by an ITV London caption for both companies following the ITV plc merger. Carlton Television Carlton Television (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties from 9.25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday. The company is now managed with London Weekend Television as a single entity ( ITV London ), but
10300-584: 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
10403-470: 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
10506-508: Was the entertainment special A Carlton New Year , produced in-house and presented by Chris Tarrant . After the special, the movie Best Defense , which starred Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy , aired, which began after Carlton's second ident, with the Cadets of the Royal Navy, saying the slogan, was shown. Idents from 1993 to 1994 had the slogan: "This is Carlton. Television for London." , "This
10609-404: 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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