ITV News

Yes, ITV Network Ltd was a renamed Independent Television Companies Association Ltd which was founded as such in the 1950s.

ITV as a name used by the general public goes way back. It was used by the tabloids in the early days when referring to the various strikes etc

From the dawn of colour TV it started appearing on TV sets (and even ITV1, with Channel 4's slot marked as ITV2).

I believe it first started being used on air regularly in the late 70s, around the time you had the famous "Let's Get The Network Together" song on Bruce's Big Night and "Welcome Home to ITV" following the 1979 strike.

ITV Sport was used through the 70s as was Independent Television for Schools and Colleges.

Watch IT! used the ITV name (with the IT! changing into an ITV) as did Look-In magazine, and then obviously Children's ITV from the early 80s.

Amazingly botched intro there.

Norman Collins is credited with introducing the term' Independent Television'.

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/itv_story_1.htm

Hardly Alastair Burnet or Sandy Gall is he? I'd like to think ITV have more sense than to let him anywhere near the flagship News At 10.

Put the sherry down, put your hands behind your back and walk away........😁

He confused Pythagoras's Theorem with Pi, managed only three decimal places of Pi, and got the third decimal place wrong. That's stable genius territory.

Many years ago, I was told a convoluted joke involving Native American women of varying body masses riding on the backs of different types of animal.

The punchline was: "The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides".

Possibly not *quite* what Pythagoras originally stated...

This is fair. No debates, just pure news with no co presenter to talk to. If you look at Piers when covering terror attacks, he is top quality. So yes Piers on NaT would work, as long as there's no co presenter or debates, which is what NaT is at the moment, pure news

But is that a good use of a personality broadcaster? Why would you constrain him like that?

He would certainly generate less clickbait on the NaT though.

Do ITV usually use the old News at Ten titles for 10pm bulletins at the weekend. Thought it was usually the generic version, even if at 10pm.

Alastair Stewart seems to be on the Saturday Rota, and it is all the better for it. If they do insist on making Charlene and Ranvir primary cover for weeknights using Alastair as the primary weekend anchor would be a wise move.

I worried that ITV had horribly renamed the Evening News when I looked at the ITV Hub homepage. Thankfully it seems to just be online that it's called 'ITV News Weekday Teatime'. Does anyone know why it might be titled differently on the website - or more importantly, who might be responsible for such a terrible name?

It's probably just an internal name that shouldn't have made it onto the public TV guide.

Pretty sure that the official names of the bulletins are currently back to ITV Lunchtime News and ITV Evening News, after many years of them being named ITV News at 1.30 and ITV News at 6.30.