Trevor will always be associated with News At Ten, even though from reading articles that Alistair Burnett and Sandy Gall hosted longer than him?
Mark and Mary should just stick with the evening news. As for News At Ten, Alistair Stewart would be nice, but i'd go for someone like Steve Scott personally.
So Julie's in Manchester with the Labour conference tonight - Trev's got the studio to himself for a second time this year! He was grinning like a cheshire cat in the trailer just then...
I have noticed recently News at Ten starting on the dot too.
Since it was brought back in January, News at Ten had conisitently started at around 10.02, 10.03 while BBC News at Ten has always started on time.
Maybe at last someone at ITV noticed.
Is it because there is ads on ITV and so they can't start on time sometimes? BBC always seems to be able to do it ok?
But... I've been watching it since January and can say that they've started at 10 on the dot (well, not on football nights!) more or less since then... unless the Sky EPG clock is lying to me...
I have noticed recently News at Ten starting on the dot too.
Since it was brought back in January, News at Ten had conisitently started at around 10.02, 10.03 while BBC News at Ten has always started on time.
Maybe at last someone at ITV noticed.
Is it because there is ads on ITV and so they can't start on time sometimes? BBC always seems to be able to do it ok?
But... I've been watching it since January and can say that they've started at 10 on the dot (well, not on football nights!) more or less since then... unless the Sky EPG clock is lying to me...
I think JayKingDoire is correct I'm afraid Nicky. I've noticed it started at 10.02 on a few occasions, but it's less frequent now I think (I don't watch NaT a lot these days)
Your rite, News at Ten recently has started at around 10.02. But sometimes now they do start bang on time.
Just I wonder why they are late? They must know how long the ads and programmes are, so why can they not start on time?
The Evening News always starts bang on 6.30
Why does the Lunchtime news always starts at 1.28, bit early don't you think?
Does anyone at ITN not have a clock?
Its an advertising technique on ITV's part, not ITN because a lot of people will watch adverts whilst they're waiting for a programme to start. I think the early lunchtime start is probably down to that the regional news always runs over by about 5 minutes so the 2pm show doesn't start until around 2.05pm-2.10pm.
As for the Evening News, that starts bang on 6.30pm because they don't show adverts inbetween the regional programme and the national news. In Granada, there are no adverts at all until around 6.45pm but I'm not sure if thats the same with all regions.
Your rite, News at Ten recently has started at around 10.02. But sometimes now they do start bang on time.
Just I wonder why they are late? They must know how long the ads and programmes are, so why can they not start on time?
The Evening News always starts bang on 6.30
Why does the Lunchtime news always starts at 1.28, bit early don't you think?
Does anyone at ITN not have a clock?
As Tom0 said, ITN is not to blame for early or late starts - that's all down to ITV. They tell ITN when their news programmes start, not the other way around.
And people seem to think News at Ten always began on time back in the nineties - when really it rarely did.
Earlier in the year though programmes commissioned for the 9pm slot were probably commissioned with the assumption the news remained at 10.30pm, and hence the 9pm programme often did run over the 10pm slot in an effort for people to stay with ITV1 rather than switch to the BBC for the news. By now though I imagine everything on screen has been commissioned with News at Ten in mind, so has probably had a couple of minutes cropped off the running time.
And people seem to think News at Ten always began on time back in the nineties - when really it rarely did.
Ah yes I remember it was worse in the 1990's than what it is now, by the time it ended in 1999, it was always averaging at about 10.05pm, but no-one minded as much as ITV was stronger and had something good on at 9.00pm in those days. More importantly no competition from the BBC.
Even though it usually starts at about 10.01pm most nights, it still ends later than advertised, usually it's due to the Regional News which does appear on time on most occassions.
