ITV News London
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| Genre | Regional News |
| Presented by | Katie Derham, Alastair Stewart |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
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| Producers | London News Network (1993-2004), ITN (2004-present) |
| Running time | Main edition: 30 Minutes |
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| Network | ITV1 London |
| Release | 4 January 1993 – present |
London Tonight is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London (previously Carlton/LWT). Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight. Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses the generic ITV plc font and idents.
London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in 2009.[1]
London News Network
London Tonight began on January 4 1993 shortly after Carlton Television won the London weekday franchise from previous holder Thames. The programme was originally produced by London News Network in association with LWT and Carlton. LNN was established to provide a united, seven day, Channel 3 news service for London. Its creation established a continuity between the once different brands of weekend and weekday news, weather and sport in the region.
On screen, the only difference between the Weekday and Weekend programmes became the endcap. This continued after the onscreen identities of Carlton London and LWT were scrapped by owners Carlton and Granada in anticipation of a merger. Instead of being referred to as LWT and Carlton, ITV London (weekend) and ITV London (weekday) became the respective names and all onscreen idents referred to ITV1 London.
ITV London (weekday) and ITV London (weekend) owners Carlton and Granada merged, forming ITV plc and LNN was dissolved soon after this. Production for all ITV London News programming remained at The London Studios (formerly known as the LWT South Bank Centre) until 29th February 2004. Production is now conducted by the national Channel 3 news franchisee ITN at their headquarters in Central London, making the region unique as it holds the only franchise operation not to produce its own in-house news programmes.
On air
London Today/Tonight airs on ITV1 London seven days a week.
ITV London provides three news bulletins during GMTV. The lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV Lunchtime News, giving a five minute round-up of the days developments from 1:55pm. The main evening edition of London Tonight begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm. The late edition follows the News at Ten, airing between 10.30pm and 10.40pm, Monday to Friday.
London Today/Tonight airs two bulletins at weekends: one on Saturday, in the late afternoon, and one on Sunday: in the early evening.
Presenters
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Production Team
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Newsdesk |
Entertainment Editor |
Producers
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Kate Atkinson |
Giulia Lloyd |
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References
External links
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