News at Ten 50th Birthday

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Happy Birthday 🎉 to us #NewsAtTen #itvnews turns #50 today pic.twitter.com/A2JZK186qV

— CAMILLA MANKABADY (@Danishgirl4) July 3, 2017

The ITV News site getting a bit confused with its own history saying News at Ten returned with Julie Etchingham and Sir Trev in 2001 with the 2008 set.

It might be worth tuning into the closing of tonight's News at Ten. I understand the Sound team might be treating us!

Don't forget the special report.

I do miss Sir Trev on News at Ten (and 10.30).

The closing bed still brings a shiver to my spine.

Lovely touch to have the original theme playing out there!



He got a lot of flack for being wooden in his presentation but I always found his delivery - like that of Burnet, Gall, Stewart, Barnes, Suchet etc etc - to be authoritative, trustworthy and full of gravitas. Even now if I hear Trevor McDonald's voice on a trailer for one of his ITV documentaries, I find myself immediately stopping what I'm doing and looking at the TV.

It sounded brilliant considering it came from the 50-year old original 1/4" reel to reel master tape! Hasn't aged at all!

The problem with using the original theme on this kind of occasion is that it sounds so much better than the current one.

It certainly sounded authoritative didn't it?! Still a brilliant piece of music all these years on.

Did they play it live from the tape or transfer it to something digital? If they played it from the tape it's good to know they still have people around with the long lost skill of backtiming tape!

I'm all for modernising, but the iconic theme still works. Even the 1990s remix still has a sense of gravitas.