The ITV News Channel is no longer broadcasting

NTL Ireland decided they weren't waiting for Friday, and have taken the channel off the system this evening. We don't even get to see the closure...

It's been Chris Rogers and Carrie Frais tonight on the last evening of the ITV News Channel.

With less than 24 hours to go, I presume people will be watching all day tommorow? making a note of who was presenting, and if anything special is said during the daytime

I'm doing a 7am-3pm shift at work tomorrow, so I'll get to miss some part, but I'll set the DVD Recorder for the last hour of the Alastair Stewart show and probably watch and record the last bits, I wonder who'll be the last person on the NC?

I'm hoping for Andrew Harvey or Leyla Daybelge as they've been there since the very early days.

Me hopes NTL UK doesn't follow NTL Ireland's decision, but I've got Freeview if I'm stuck.

Indeed, who's been doing 4pn-5.30pm and 5.30-6.30pm this week? different people all week?

Owen Thomas did 4pm on Tuesday (I think), and I my be wrong but think Carrie Frais may have as well. A similar picture for the later hours as well; Jonathan Morell, Emma Walden and Carrie Frais (to name but a few) have all been alternating this week on the 11pm hour.

Chris Rogers has been on all week.

quite a funny moment this afternoon when Carrie Frais said something to him about them having to do cleaning jobs next week (i didn't see the report that was in reference to)!

Stupid, I know, but this will be the last time we see each hour now on ITV News - goodbye 23.00 hour !

On another note, nice to see Carrie all tarted up tonight for (perhps) her final bulletin!

Alastair said that he hoped people would make a special effort to join him tomorrow because it'll be the last one.

Looking at the Radio Times, though, I notice that the Lunchtime News is at 12.15 tomorrow, so the end of Alastair's final show may be curtailed.

The only other reference I've seen to the closure today was when Chris Rogers said goodbye to Jeremy Batstone and that it had been good working with him.

UK Today (just after 3.30) may be worth watching tomorrow afternoon in case any of the regional presenters say something.

I'm sure the end of every hour tomorrow will provide reference to the closure.

The Sky EPG is listing Alastair's show to finish at the normal time, so it'll be Scott's show cut down to 30 minutes tomorrow lunchtime.

A good start to the final 12 hours of the itv news channel. the scott chisholm show has been good. today is the first time i have ever seen his show.

nice shot of the studio earlier and the floor manager dashed on and gave scott some papers as they went to the break

also a review of the papers he told the cameraman to zoom in on a picture and said "this must be the longest zoom in history. is that in focus or is it my eyes"

shame the end is near for the scott chrisholm show as i am impressed.


they have now just had a graphics failure. the arial shot grapics they had a plane flying in and then it went black as scott was saying the top holiday destinations. scott said "they are not traveling to the black thats for sure" very comical show this morning

now having a debate on how to cook roast potatoes

It is a real shame the news channel is going - It has been slagged off so much... I have always found the presenters to be very interesting and the news channel really has tried hard.

I have watched the news channel since the days on ITN, it had a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. The Scott Chisholm, Alasdair Stewert, Angela Rippon & Jon Nicolson shows that are unrivalled on the other news channels - the balance is just right.

A sad day indeed.

Are there any presenters we definately won't see now...

The classics I would like to see are...
Leyla, Owen, Felicity, Andrew, Jon Nicolson....

Theorerically there are only 3 presenting slots left today...

How did Scotts show end?

Anything special mentioned with Alasdair...?