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I.T.N. News == ITV News.

(January 2006)

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RD
Rob Del Monte
When did ITV start branding 'I.T.N.' as 'ITV News'? Was this a gradual process?

You know what I mean dont you?

The programme used to be called 'I.T.N.'.
DA
DAS Founding member
What do you mean?
JO
Jonathan
ITN provides the news for ITV and Channel 4, previously channel 5 aswell.
DA
DAS Founding member
Why the hecky pecky has this been moved to Requests? It's getting silly now.
RT
rts Founding member
My money's on Charlie.
MA
mark Founding member
The ITN-branded news on ITV was dropped in 1999 when the News at Ten was axed and the main bulletin moved to 6.30.

From that point, the programmes were branded the 'ITV Evening News' etc.

I believe the reason given at the time was that ITV needed to create a stronger identity for its programmes in a multi-channel age, or something to that effect.

At first, ITN was still referred to quite a bit - there was a voiceover at the start of the programme saying "From the studio of ITN, The ITV Evening News...". All the reporter astons had the ITN logo on them, and they referred to people as 'ITN's political editor' etc.

But after a while (can't remember exactly when), all references to ITN were scrapped, apart from the endboard.
BR
Brekkie
Someone moving stuff to quickly me thinks!


ITN was basically dropped in 1999 as said above, though all programmes opened "From ITN, the ITV ... News with ...". It was in 2001 when News at Ten returned that all references to ITN ended.


Interestingly, certainly in the 90s though introduced "From the studios of ITN" News at Ten didn't really have ITN branding throughout - the reporters signed off News at Ten (othr bulletins were signed off ITN) - and I don't think ITN appeared on the astons.
MA
mark Founding member
The ITN logo did appear on some of the astons during the 90s, but only the ones for reporters. I believe the same was true for all bulletins (although News at Ten had a different graphics package).

News at Ten also began with the ITN logo superimposed over a shot of Big Ben.

EDIT: Found some caps on The TV Room...

News At Ten...

http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/titles-1a.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/aston-3.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/aston-5.jpg

Other bulletins...

http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/miscel/evening-d.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/lunchtime/97-misc-d.jpg
TV
tvmercia Founding member
why the hell was this thread moved to requests? it is not a MULTIMEDIA ENQUIRY.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
tvmercia posted:
why the hell was this thread moved to requests? it is not a MULTIMEDIA ENQUIRY.


Have to agree with you there. There isn't anything in here concerning multimedia.
NM
nate mate
rts posted:
My money's on Charlie.


Same Here
DA
Davidjb Founding member
mark posted:
The ITN logo did appear on some of the astons during the 90s, but only the ones for reporters. I believe the same was true for all bulletins (although News at Ten had a different graphics package).

News at Ten also began with the ITN logo superimposed over a shot of Big Ben.

EDIT: Found some caps on The TV Room...

News At Ten...

http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/titles-1a.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/aston-3.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/ten/images-1999/aston-5.jpg

Other bulletins...

http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/miscel/evening-d.jpg http://thetvroom.com/images-itv-net-news/itv-net-news-1990s/lunchtime/97-misc-d.jpg


The Red bar was used on the ITN Early evening News graphics (used to be on at 17:40 weekdays). And the yellow bar was used on the ITN Lunchtime News. The news desk in the studio also had a corresponding red or yellow flouresecent tube on the front of it. I think ITN World News also used the red graphic.

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