New ITV West News Set

I've been looking at the TV Ark Forum. Never a good idea, kids. Makes this place seem vaguely sane and civilized.

Is there any truth in the suggestion that HTV West's 6pm programme will be renamed The West Tonight when Lisa Aziz joins in a week's time?

Apparently there are promos running on ITV1 West already.

Well, Wales and the West of England are the only (?) ITV1/ITVplc regions at the moment that don't use an alternative title for the 6pm weekday show. (e.g. Meridian News / Meridian Tonight etc)

So, introducing a 6pm-specific title would be more in keeping with the other ITVplc regions.

I'm sure there was a period in the 1990s when 6pm-specific names were used: (Wales = HTV News / Wales Tonight. West = HTV News / The West Tonight)

The two regions' programmes had a similar look to each other during that period (an "HTV generic news look", if you will).

Outside of that period, I think the West edition had only ever called the 6pm show the exact same thing as the bulletins - i.e. HTV News.

But the Wales edition had used the 6pm title "Wales at Six" in some pre-"Wales Tonight" era.

It used to be called Wales At Six and then in 1994 they moved it to 6.25pm and renamed it Wales Tonight. In 1999 it moved back to 6pm and was renamed HTV News on both West and Wales.

On West I remember the main 6pm programme being called HTV News in the early 1990s although it was called The West Tonight for a time.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tvdragon/htvwt01.jpg
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Very nice ... but if the production staff behind Lisa aren't up to scratch then the show will never be any good.

I point you all to this month's Ofcom programme bulletin. See page seven for quite a serious breach of the code by HTV's news bods.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/pcb53/issue_42.pdf



See the bulletin itself to see what they did wrong.

But surely you can't get into TOO much trouble for only misleading the ONE viewer?

Breaking rules is breaking rules ...

Wow I am impressed.... new title, the return of Lisa Azia (bless her she's been fed well at Sky!) and stil no news!

Caps from tonight's The West Tonight.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt1.jpg
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http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt3.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt4.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt5.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt6.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt7.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt8.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt9.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/itvregions/images/westtonight/twt10.jpg

Very interesting style of aston animation and the sting was a bit different, with the text more transparent and with a different animation.

John

He hates her, you could tell.

Meanwhile, how lovely of them to wheel Bruce out, who strangely looks younger than ten years ago [they thought it could never happen].

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tvdragon/htvbruce.jpg
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tvdragon/htvbruce02.jpg

So why did ITV west change the Name of the 6pm news.

You're easily impressed ..