ITV Nightscreen was a scheduled programme on the ITV television network, consisting of a sequence of animated pages of information about ITV's upcoming programmes, features and special events, with easy listening music in the background.
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ITV Nightscreen was broadcast on ITV, STV and UTV starting from when the last programme finishes and ending at 5:05am most weekdays and at 6am at weekends and holidays.
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CITV Nightscreen did not use the service since the channel closes down at 9pm.
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In December 2005, three months before the now defunct ITV Nightscreen Play began transmitting, a quiz show entitled Quizmania began broadcasting in the early hours on ITV Nightscreen.
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In 2008, largely as a result of widespread scandal surrounding phone-ins, ITV Play was permanently axed, meaning that Nightscreen began broadcasting from around 4:30am.
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ITV Channel Television previously ran its own version of the service entitled Channel Nightscreen consisting of local news headlines and programming information.
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In 2010, ITV started airing The Zone for 2 hours, a gaming and shopping programme block, usually airing from 12:30am to 2:30am, leaving Nightscreen often cut back to as little as an hour and sometimes removed from ITV's schedule altogether.
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STV began simulcasting Ideal World from September 2021, meaning ITV Nightscreen was only shown once per night on the channel, instead of twice.
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From January 2021, ITV Nightscreen started airing FYI Extra at 3am for 15 minutes daily.
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Similar filler to ITV Nightscreen was provided by RTE, who currently uses this to fill airtime cheaply on RTE Two.
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