ITV Evening News
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| ITV Evening News | |
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| Format | News |
| Presented by | Mark Austin Mary Nightingale |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
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| Producer(s) | ITN |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | ITV |
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| Related shows | ITV Morning News, ITV Lunchtime News, News at Ten, ITV Late News, ITV Weekend News |
The ITV Evening News is the early evening news programme on the British television network ITV. It is produced by ITN.
The bulletin is a thirty minute news broadcast covering British national and international news stories, and is broadcast at 6.30pm from Monday to Friday. When there is a major news story, one presenter will host the first ten to fifteen minutes of the programme from the scene of the story. The other presenter will remain in the studio and cover the day's other news. The programme's regular newscasters are Mark Austin and Mary Nightingale, with Geraint Vincent and Nina Hossain acting as main relief presenters.
The chronology of the programme begins with the 1976 entrance of the ITN News at 545, introduced in 1976 and presented mainly by Michael Nicholson. In 1989, the introduction of the ITV Weather forecast led to the bulletin's timeslot being extended in length to 20 minutes and the title being changed to ITN News at 540, with Alastair Stewart replacing Nicholson as the main anchor. Due to the Gulf Crisis and subsequent war in 1991, ITN were temporarily granted a full half-hour slot each evening; the continual change of time (and length) of the bulletin around this time led to the 5.40 being re-branded as the ITN Early Evening News with John Suchet as the main host, although in 1992 the bulletin went back to its 5.40pm timeslot until it was cancelled in 1999. ITN Evening News was then launched, with Sir Trevor McDonald as its main presenter. He left to present the revived and short-lived News at Ten in 2001 and subsequently became main presenter on the ITV News at 10.30.
The ITV Evening News is currently the RTS news programme of the year.
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[edit] Presenters
[edit] Main anchors
[edit] Deputy anchors
The following newsreaders can be seen presenting the programme when the main anchors are unavailible.
[edit] Relief presenters
The following newsreaders can occasionally be seen presenting the programme when the deputy anchors are unavailable.
[edit] Former presenters
The following newsreaders have been a main anchor on all of ITN/ITV News' evening bulletins (ITV Evening News, ITN News at 540, etc).
- Fiona Armstrong - presenter, 1985-1989
- Carol Barnes - presenter, 1982-1989, 1991-1994
- Andrea Catherwood - relief presenter, 2003-2007
- Shiulie Ghosh - relief presenter, 2000-2004
- Trevor McDonald - relief presenter, 1983-1985; anchor, 1999-2001
- Dermot Murnaghan - relief presenter, 1989-2000; anchor, 2001-2002
- Michael Nicholson - presenter, 1976-1987
- Lucy Owen - occasional relief presenter, 2007
- Nicholas Owen - relief presenter, 1990-2007
- Leonard Parkin - relief presenter, 1976-1987
- Fiona Phillips - presenter, 1987-1991
- Alastair Stewart - presenter, 1984-1989; relief presenter 2003-present
- John Suchet - presenter, 1991-1999
- Kirsty Young - presenter, 2000-2002
[edit] Guest presenters
Between 19 September and 23 September 2005, former ITN newsreaders returned to present the Evening News alongside either Mark Austin or Mary Nightingale as part of ITV and ITN's 50th birthday celebrations:
- Julia Somerville - presenter of News at One and News at Ten, 1987-2001
- Martyn Lewis - presenter of ITN News at 545 and News at Ten, 1976-1986
- Selina Scott - presenter of News at Ten, 1977-1982
- Gordon Honeycombe - presenter of ITN News bulletins, 1965-1977
- Anna Ford - presenter of News at Ten, 1975-1981
