ITV News at 5:30

ITV News at 5:30 was an early morning news bulletin on the British television network ITV, which was broadcast from 15 February 1988 until 21 December 2012. It was produced by ITN.

ITV News at 5:30
ITV News opening sequence
Also known asITV Morning News
(1988–2009)
Presented byVarious Newscasters
Opening theme"News Centre"
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsITN Studios,
London, England, UK
EditorDeborah Turness
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production companyITN
Release
Original networkITV
Original release15 February 1988 (1988-02-15) –
21 December 2012 (2012-12-21)
Related

The 30-minute programme covered British national and international news stories, a brief business update, a look at the morning's newspapers and regular NBC News segments and broadcasts at 5:30 am every day. In the event of a major news story, they occasionally went live to the scene or crossed to the newsroom.

History

The programme began as the ITN Morning News on 15 February 1988 with the advent of 24-hour television on ITV; preceding it throughout the night would be 90-second mini-bulletins, fronted by the same anchor as the Morning News. It originally ran for an hour from 5:00am and was the first pre-subscription television outlet in Britain to broadcast regular segments from CNN. The first thirty minutes included a broadcast of the ITN World News, a bulletin intended for the international audience and composed solely of major world stories, and the second thirty minutes focused on national news stories. The practice of including the ITN World News as part of an "hour-long" ITN Morning News ended by 4 March 1991, and the time slot was amended accordingly to 5:30am. During the Christmas period, the programme was shortened to a 5 minute bulletin airing at 5:55am.

Some EPGs and TV listings referred to the programme as the ITV Early Morning News. On 2 November 2009 the ITV Morning News was renamed as simply ITV News to coincide with the re-branding of ITV News output.

On 27 November 2012, it was announced that ITV is to axe the bulletin in favour of delivering content online for itv.com and extra resources to be put into creating a new foreign affairs unit. The programme last aired on 21 December 2012.[1]

Newscasters (1988–2012)

Reporter
  • Yao Chin (2008–2012)

References
  1. ITV lays Morning News to rest, Balihar Khalsa, Broadcast Now, 27 November 2012
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