Granada Reports
| Granada Reports | |
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| Also known as | Granada News |
| Format | Regional News |
| Presented by | Lucy Meacock Tony Morris |
| Country of origin | England, UK |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Frediani (Head of News) |
| Location(s) | Granada Studios, Manchester, England, UK |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 6pm show) |
| Production company(s) | Granada |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV1 ITV Granada |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9) |
| Original run | 1956 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | ITV News, BBC North West Tonight |
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Granada Reports is the flagship regional news programme of ITV franchisee Granada, presented by Tony Morris and Lucy Meacock, and serving the North West of England (including southern parts of Cumbria) and the Isle of Man.
Like all regional news programmes on ITV1 in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses the generic ITV font and idents. Shorter Granada News bulletins air seven days a week.
The current head of news at ITV Granada is Richard Frediani, who has been in charge since 2004.
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[edit] Overview
Prior to its launch in 1973, the nightly news programme had been known under several titles such as Northern Newscast, Scene at Six Thirty and People and Places. The Granada Reports brand was originally scrapped in 1990 and replaced by Granada Tonight before the former name was revived on 1 October 2001.
Granada was mainly unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in 2009.[1] The only major change saw ITV Granada take over coverage of the Isle of Man from ITV Tyne Tees & Border on 16 July 2009.
[edit] Broadcast times
Granada Reports and Granada News is produced and broadcast from Granada Television's studios in Quay Street, Manchester with reporters also based at newsrooms in the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, Lancaster and on the Isle of Man. Reporters were also based at newsrooms in Blackburn and Chester until both offices were closed in 2005.
Granada News airs on Granada seven days a week. ITV Granada provides three news bulletins during Daybreak. The lunchtime edition of the programme follows on from the ITV News at 1:30, giving a six minute round-up of the days developments from 1.55pm. The main evening edition of Granada Reports begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm. The late news update from Granada follows the ITV News at Ten, airing between 10.30pm and 10.35pm, every weeknight.
Granada News airs two early evening bulletins at weekends: one on Saturday and one on Sunday, although times may vary.
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Reporters marked with a * also act as newsreaders. [edit] AwardsIn 2007, Granada Reports won the Royal Television Society awards for best news coverage in the Nations and Regions. This was followed by the Best News Programme at the 2007 Broadcast Awards and finally, Best News Coverage in the 2007 BAFTA Television Awards - the first regional news programme to be nominated and the only regional news programme to ever win a Bafta. All three awards were won for their coverage of the trial of four men and one woman, charged with manslaughter during the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. Judges described the coverage as bold, brave and a tribute to regional news at its best. Granada Reports went on to win the North West regional RTS award for Best Regional Programme in November 2007, this time for its coverage of severe weather in the region. They retained the National RTS award for Nations and Regions news coverage in 2008, for coverage of the end of the trial into the murder of Lesley Molseed - the first time any regional news programme in Britain had won the award in successive years. Granada Reports was named RTS North West Best Regional News Programme 2009 for the second time in three years for its coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. In 2010 Granada Reports was named RTS North West Best Regional Programme again for coverage of Blackpool's promotion to the Premier League. The ITV Granada news team made it a double success after winning Best Regional Story for their coverage of Afghanistan. For the third year in a row in 2011 Granada Reports was named RTS North West Best Regional Programme for a special investigation in to sex attacker Colin Blanchard. The investigation also won the award for Best Regional Story while correspondent Rob Smith completed a clean sweep of awards for ITV Granada winning Best Regional On Screen Talent. [edit] References
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