Calendar (News)
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| Genre | News |
| Created by | ITV Yorkshire |
| Starring | Duncan Wood Christine Talbot Gaynor Barnes John Shires |
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| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV1 Yorkshire |
| Original run | 29 July 1968 – present |
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Calendar is the local news programme for ITV Yorkshire. It began on 29 July 1968, the same day as Yorkshire Television (YTV) came on air.
Unlike many regional news programmes at that time Calendar adopted a magazine-style approach and benefited from heavy investment by Yorkshire Television in local news gathering.
During the early years, the Calendar title had been used by various programmes produced by YTV in both news and other genres, including the short-lived Good Morning Calendar breakfast show; the parliamentary programme Calendar Lobby; and Calendar Catwalk, a fashion show.
The name Calendar was also attached to the local version of the Channel 4 launch show, Countdown, which ran for one series on YTV before the start of Channel 4 as Calendar Countdown.
The main programme is called "Calendar". All other shorter bulletins are called 'Calendar News'
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[edit] Until January 2007
The mid morning and lunchtime Calendar News bulletins were split into three sub-regions. Calendar East which broadcast to East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk, Calendar South which broadcast to Sheffield and North Derbyshire and Calendar News which broadcast to the rest of the region (which is why no compass point is used). There was also a 5 minute round-up during the main Calendar programme where the programme splits into three parts for local news.
Until 1989 the show was produced in the main YTV facility at Kirkstall Road, Leeds. In that year the company purchased a former swimming baths opposite the studios and converted that to a dedicated newsroom, production and transmission centre for local news.
[edit] From January 2007
On January 8, 2007, Calendar's main 18:00 programme was split into North and South editions (the latter combines the former East and South sub-regions). All other bulletins serve the entire region.
Calendar North: North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire (North)
Calendar South: Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire (Newark), Norfolk (North), South Yorkshire (villages to the south including Bawtry, Harworth and half of Tickhill).
Calendar airs on ITV1 Yorkshire seven days a week. ITV Yorkshire provides three news bulletins during GMTV. The mid-morning bulletin airs immediately after an ITV News Summary at 11.10, during This Morning, this update airs for around 10 minutes. The lunchtime edition of the programme follows on from the ITV Lunchtime News, giving a five minute round-up of the days developments between 13:55 and 14:00. The main evening edition of Calendar begins at 18:00, and ends at 18:30. The late news update from the region follows the News at Ten, airing between 22:25 and 22:35, Mondays to Thursdays, and between 23:25 and 23:35 on Fridays, after The Late News.
Calendar airs four bulletins at weekends: two on Saturday, at lunchtime, and mid afternoon, and two on Sunday: at lunchtime and the evening edition Calendar News and Sport at 18:25.
[edit] The team
Currently, the Calendar on-air team consists of the following.
[edit] Main presenters
Calendar North
- Christine Talbot (Monday to Thursdays)
- Duncan Wood
- Kate Webster (Fridays/cover)
Calendar South
- Gaynor Barnes
- John Shires
- Tina Gelder (cover)
[edit] Bulletin presenters
- Carolyn Hodgson
- Vicky Locklin (Also ITV Tyne Tees newsreader)
- Michelle Gee
- Paul Burland - Sports Correspondent/Weekend presenter
- Dave Devenport - South News Editor/South Producer
- Frazer Maude (also reporter)
- Peter McNerney - Senior Producer
- Karen Petch
- Lisa Walton
[edit] Sports presenters
- John Shires
- Paul Burland (Weekend/stand-in presenter)
- Rachel Philips (Occassional stand-in presenter/reporter)
- John Helm (commentator)
[edit] Weather Forecasters
- Jon Mitchell (Chief weather presenter)
- Jo Blythe
- Kerrie Gosney
- Debbie Lindley
[edit] Reporters
N.B. Some reporters also occasionally present bulletins
- Lisa Adlam (Leeds)
- Phil Andrews - (Freelance reporter, Sheffield)
- Ben Erlam (Grimsby Correspondent)
- Martin Fisher (Lincoln Correspondent)
- Tina Gelder (Consumer Correspondent)
- Dave Harrison (London Correspondent)
- Jon Hill (Calendar & North East Tonight York Correspondent)
- David Hirst (Sports Correspondent, Leeds)
- Chris Kiddey (Leeds)
- Julie Lockwood (Sheffield Correspondent)
- Gail Mellors (Sheffield Correspondent)
- Katie Oscroft (Leeds)
- Raj Shukla (Sheffield Correspondent)
- Anne-Marie Tasker (Hull Correspondent)
- Kate Webster (Senior News Correspondent)
- Vicky White (Freelance reporter, South Lincolnshire)
[edit] Former presenters
- Christa Ackroyd - now with BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)
- Jonathan Aitken
- Penny Bustin - now with BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands) (Health correspondent)
- Paul Dunstan
- Geoff Druett
- Liz Fox
- Roger Greenwood
- Robert Hall
- Alan Hardwick[1]
- Richard Madeley
- Austin Mitchell - left to become Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby
- Mike Morris
- Ruth Pitt
- Sid Waddell - presenter/producer
- Marylyn Webb
- Simon Welfare
- Richard Whiteley
- Faye Barker - now working on Sky News
- Jason McCartney - left to become a parliamentary candidate
[edit] Calendar Spinoffs
- Calendar Calling
- Calendar Carousel
- Calendar Commentary
- Calendar Countdown
- Calendar Fashion Show
- Calendar Friday
- Calendar Goes Pop
- Calendar Kids
- Calendar Lunchtime Live
- Calendar People
- Calendar Tuesday
- Calendar Sport
- Calendar Sunday
- Christmas Calendar
- Country Calendar
- Good Morning Calendar
[edit] Trivia
- Good Morning Calendar, which started in 1977, is credited as being the UK's first breakfast television programme, around five years before the launch of TV-am. [2] It ran for one-hour, finishing at 09:25 when ITV companies traditionally went on-air.
- The first-ever edition of Calendar was pre-recorded an hour before transmission. Due to a technical fault the show was transmitted incorrectly; what viewers saw resembled a photographic negative.
- During one live edition in 1969 university students sneaked into the studios, interrupted the show and 'kidnapped' the guest, actress Anita Harris, as part of their rag week stunts
[edit] External links
- ITV Yorkshire News at itvlocal.com
- InsideTV on Good Morning Calendar and morning television
- TV-Ark images of ITV Yorkshire news
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