ITV Evening News in the USA

What an odd expression.... dinner time?

It's a vague term especially as BBC1 beats it with regional news, but then that's 15 or so seperate programmes added together.

The 6 O clock news also gets more of an audience than ITV Evening News..... but then perhaps 'Dinner Time' starts at 6:30?

So it's much the same way as News 24 carries ABC's World News Tonight, Sky News carries (I think) CBS, Dinner-hour seems an OK name to me.

As far as I'm concerned, breakfast is in the morning, lunch somewhere between 12 and 2pm, dinner in the evening, somewhere between 6pm and 9pm, and tea is a drink! I've never understood the difference between dinner/supper/tea.

Oddly enough, the home version of CBC Newsworld does not carry ANY of the international newscasts on Newsworld International EXCEPT for BBC World News. Hmph.

In terms of ratings, the BBC wins the 1800-1900 newshour slot in both half hours most of the time I believe. The 1830-1900 regional news slot on the BBC is often the highest rating news show in the UK (but doesn't appear on national ratings as all the programmes are, rightly I guess, deemed as different shows and rated individually... The same doesn't happen for the Ten as the regional bit is less than 15 mins?)

The One O'Clock News (contrary to an earlier post) almost always gets significantly higher ratings than the ITV Lunchtime news - and in share terms it gets between 40-50% most of the time... (Which makes it a very strong show...)

Right the Breakfast/Dinner/Tea and Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner situation in a nutshell.

'Dinner' is (or was at least) traditionally the main meal of the day. In posh houses, the elaborate upstairs evening Dinner took so long and so much time to prepare that the servants didn't have time for a full cooked meal at that time. Instead, they had their dinner around midday when the upstairs were having lunch. In the evening, since they were still working on the upstairs dinner they simply had time for a cup of tea and maybe a sandwich or something, and hence their next meal was called 'tea'. Then later on in the evening (whilst they were clearing up from the upstairs meal) they had another meal called supper which was roughly equivalent to lunch.

So, the upstairs had breakfast, lunch and dinner whilst the servants had breakfast, dinner, tea (which wasn't really a meal) and supper.

Hence why it's always been considered a bit common to have breakfast, dinner and tea.

*the north of England and Wales inhales sharply*

I watched the ITV News this evening, yet I haven't had any dinner, or tea for that matter.
Hmm, I think all this tying of news programmes to meals is flawed. And then there would be the ITV Dinnertime News especially for the north of England, and servants.

Come on, its breakfast, then lunch, then supper. Uggghhh!

Anyway, onto my somewhat unrelated question for US viewers: On cable and satellite, is it possible for you to watch CNN International?

On weekends, CNNfn (the US domestic CNN financial news network) is replaced with CNN International.

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I think you'll find it's
Breakfast - 7am
Lunch - midday
Tea - 4pm
Dinner - 8pm (big meal)
Supper - just before bed.

You forgot Midnight Feast! LOL!

I never bother with some 'big meal' at 8pm!

as does Cornwall. I'm a breakfast/dinner/tea man myself