27 Facts About ITV News

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV.

Independent Television News was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV.

ITV News has the second-largest television news audience in the United Kingdom, second only to BBC News.

However, the idea was approved on the condition it ran for a 13-week trial, and ITV News at Ten was born on 3 July 1967.

The regulating ITC ordered ITV to perform a review of the new news time slots and whether or not they were working.

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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.

The ITV News Channel was replaced by men's channel ITV4 and the recently launched CITV channel in March 2006.

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.

Almost all of the teal-coloured graphics of 2006 were replaced with reworked blue versions to provide some consistency with the rest of the ITV News look, but the teal clockface opening animation remained on the ITV News-branded bulletins.

Semi-circular "Theatre of ITV News" studio set, in use for five years, was last broadcast on Sunday 1 November 2009.

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.

The ITV News revamp was developed by ITN, ITV and design agency Bruce Dunlop Associates.

In January 2022, ITV announced that their Evening News programme would be extended to become an hour-long programme at 6:30pm from March.

Trademarks of ITN and ITV News are the inclusion of the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in its programme titles, along with the chimes of Big Ben between headlines.

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.

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.

Election 64 – The Result was hosted by Alastair Burnet, the fast-rising face of politics on ITV News, and contained many visual gimmicks to keep the audience interested in the coverage.

Team of Alastair Burnet and Peter Sissons provided many memorable election night programmes on ITV News, including the 1984 European elections and Election 87, but by 1992 the faces of ITV News's political coverage had changed somewhat.

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.

ITV News had Tom Bradby at the helm from 9:55pm on ITV, using the same set design from the 2015 general election.

ITV News was joined by Professors Jane Green and Colin Rallings, along with Robert Peston and Nina Hossain.

Coverage handed over to Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid from 6:00am, with the ITV News coverage resuming at 9:25am, and airing through the rest of the day on ITV with Julie Etchingham anchoring the coverage through Friday.

ITV News had Tom Bradby as the main anchor in the studio, using a similar set design used in 2015 and 2017, however some updates to the background were made.

ITV News used the large space of the atrium at ITN headquarters in London, using it as the election results headquarters, with Robert Peston-based there.

Nations and regions newsThe 2013 rebrand of ITV News saw the brand being extended to regional news programmes operated by ITV plc replacing the previous regional news titles.

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Since the creation of ITV plc in 2004 all regional news programmes in these regions have taken on a unified look and appearance on screen while structurally the merger has enabled ITV to create the ITV News Group consisting of ITN's national news service and the regional services provided by ITV plc and STV Group.

Since then BAFTA has gone on to present ITN with a total of 26 awards, for coverage on ITV News ranging from Francis Chichester's home-coming in 1967 to the Northern Ireland troubles, the Iranian Embassy siege, wars in the Falklands, Lebanon and the Gulf, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the discovery of the Serb camps, the genocide in Rwanda, the storming of the Moscow White House, and the conflict in former Yugoslavia.