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ITV News London
File:LondonTonightITV.jpg
London Tonight title card
Presented byNina Hossain
Natasha Kaplinsky
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersLondon News Network (1993-2004),
ITN (2004-present)
Running time30 minutes (6pm programme)
Original release
NetworkITV, ITV1 London
Release1993

London Tonight (in other editions London Today) is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London (previously Carlton/LWT). Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of interest.

Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses the generic ITV plc font and idents.

Overview

London Tonight began on 4 January 1993 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, ITV (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 29 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.

London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in late 2008 to early 2009.[1]

Presenter changes

Alastair Stewart, who presented London Tonight for over 16 years, left the programme in September 2009 to be replaced temporarily by Matt Teale.[2] Teale was replaced by Donal MacIntyre in April 2010,[3] and now presents weekend bulletins.

Katie Derham left London Tonight on 23 June 2010 to join the BBC[4] and was replaced by Nina Hossain.[5] MacIntyre left the programme in September 2010,[6] with London Life correspondent Ben Scotchbrook taking over his duties.

Entertainment correspondent Lucy Cotter and weather presenter Robin McCallum presented the last double headed programme for the capital on 29 October 2010, with Cotter also departing on this date to join Sky News.[7] From 1 November 2010 the programme has been presented solely by Nina Hossain.[7]

On 3 August 2011, it was announced that Natasha Kaplinsky will provide maternity leave cover for Nina Hossain, the main presenter of London Tonight and relief presenter of ITV News programmes from mid-September until Spring 2012.[8]

Broadcast times

London Today/Tonight airs on ITV1 London seven days a week.

ITV London provides three news bulletins during Daybreak. The lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV News at 1:30, giving a seven minute round-up of the days developments from 1:54pm. The main evening edition of London Tonight begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.29pm. The late edition follows the ITV News at Ten, airing between 10.28pm and 10.37pm, Monday to Friday.

London Today/Tonight airs two bulletins at weekends, late afternoon on Saturday, and early evening on Sunday.

Current on air team

Journalists who are employed for ITV London may also work with ITV News, in the same position or various, as both operations are produced by ITN. The ITV News at 1:30 newsreader is utilised to present the following London Today bulletin for ITV1 London.

Main newsreader

Other newsreaders

Travel presenters

  • Cat Kobylinski (freelance)

Weather presenters

News correspondents

Specialist correspondents

Non-newsreaders marked with a * are also newsreaders.

References

  1. ^ Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run The Guardian, 16 February 2009
  2. ^ Plunkett, John (19 August 2009). "More Mark Austin on News at Ten". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Donal Macintyre to be Katie Derham's partner on London Tonight". This is London. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  4. ^ Robinson, James (21 April 2010). "Katie Derham leaving ITN for BBC". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Nina Hossain to host London Tonight". Mail Online. 2 June 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  6. ^ Donal MacIntyre quits London Tonight The Guardian, 25 August 2010; Retrieved 2 November 2010
  7. ^ a b London Tonight goes solo TV Newsroom, 30 October 2010
  8. ^ Sweney, Mark (2011-08-03). "Natasha Kaplinsky takes ITV news anchor role". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
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