ITV new look news in 2002

It is rumered that ITV news is to get a new look next year as well as new idents. Please give me your comments and thoughts.

Pointless Polls.

That's your fifth recently...

I was thinking exactly the same - Andrew, please surprise us

I reccomend changing the evening schedules a bit.  A suggestion:

17.05  People Versus/Night and Day/UTV Life
17.30  ITV1 News Hour
          includes 17.30 ITN Evening News
                        17.55 Regional News
                        18.25 National Recap (a la BBC1 just before 7)
18.30  Crossroads

What do we think?  I'd present the news like BBC1 at 6 with a regional insert placed in the headline sequence.

And should ITV1 regional news get a corporate look, again a la BBC1?

Your views please!


(Edited by James Martin at 10:06 pm on Nov. 21, 2001)

Between 5:20 and 6:30pm, Here could be a popular ITV1 SCHEDULE:

5:20 Crossroads
5:45 ITN News at 5:45
6:00 Regional News Magazines

Local Continuity Announcers, Jingle/idents And All.

The ITN News At 10 (on the dot) with the old 30 minute bulletin should replace the shambles of a 20 minute late evening bulletin that comes on at any time other than the expected time of 10pm.

Well ITV1 isn't the BBC, So I wouldn't have a corporate look, or a regional insert in the headlines.

The schedule I would have is:

13:05 The People Versus

17:05 TuWTh: Night and Day; MF: Crossroads
17:30 ITV Evening News
18:00 Regional News at 6
18:30 Tu/Th: Crossroads; MWF: Regional Magazine Programme

Why do you want a complete hour of regional news when half an hour is perfectly acceptable at the moment as it's always been.

I know. Come on. AN HOUR OF REGIONAL NEWS. Nothing happens in my region anyway. Just car crashes most of the time. And most of the time it ends up on something completely irrelevant to the news.

Not sure if ITV are allowed the news at 5:30pm. They have to have at least one bulletin in prime time and sometimes they don't show the late news until 11pm. So the only way they could have a 5:30pm bulletin would be if the late news was on at 10pm every night.

Channel 5 came across this problem with the ITC when they recently moved the news, so ended up with a bulletin at 5:30pm and another at 7:30pm.

Will 2002 be the time when news reporters at the end of their reports stop saying 'Peter Jones, ITN, ...' and start saying 'Peter Jones, ITV News, ...'

Regional Magazine Programmes are popular here in the North...

YTV's Tonight, TTTV's North East Tonight, Granada Tonight, etc.

Of course regions that don't bother with this sort of thing could show Shortland Street or Blue Heelers or whatever?

I thought there was trouble before because 5.30 was too early a time for the evening news. People aren't home from work at that time.

6.00 is early enough for the regional news
6.30 is a good time for ITN's main evening bulletin.

I do not like BBC's news hour, as the regional news doesn't work being at 6.30 after the national. Approaching 7.00 when more and more people start to tune in, you don't want the BBC regional news shows to be on. The presenter coming back at 6.55 is nonsense too. (At least when John Suchet comes back after the regional news on ITV Lunchtime News there is another ten to fifteen minutes of recap and other stories.)