"popularise newscasters such as Alastair Burnet, Andrew Gardner, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Anna Ford, John Suchet, Mark Austin, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald into well-known television personalities. When the bulletin was axed in 1999 in order for primetime entertainment programming to air uninterrupted, there was a public outcry. ITV reluctantly brought the programme back - under the name ""ITV News at Ten"" - in 2001, airing it at 10pm for a minimum of three nights per week, but eventually replaced it with the """" in 2004. It was not until January 2008 that ""News at Ten"" was reinstated to the"
"""News at Ten"" was given its first major relaunch, in part to address the criticism it had attracted over the last few years. In a bid to regain the personal touch that had been lost, the programme dispensed with the dual-presentation team in favour of a sole newscaster, Trevor McDonald, who subsequently became one of the most well-known newscasters in the UK. Julia Somerville, John Suchet and Dermot Murnaghan each presented ""News at Ten"" when McDonald was absent. The bulletin carried this format until March 1999. Despite ""News at Ten""'s continued stature and popularity, ITV announced its intention to axe"
"James Mates, Mary Nightingale and Alastair Stewart acting as relief presenters. Regular sports presenters included Felicity Barr, Nina Hossain, Steve Scott and Jonathan Wills. ITV News at 10.30 The ITV News at 10.30 was the flagship news programme on British television network ITV, broadcast on Monday to Friday at 10:30 pm. It was produced by ITN. It was introduced into the ITV schedule as the ""ITV News at Ten-Thirty"" on 2 February 2004, following the demise of the ITV News At Ten. There was a twenty-five-minute broadcast of British national and international news, with a dedicated business, sports, and a"
"There was further tension with the ITV executives as they were sceptical of the idea that viewers would want a full 30 minutes of news every Monday to Friday and they were also losing valuable peak time slots which could be used for the sale of commercial advertising. ""News at Ten"" began broadcasting on 3 July 1967 with a newscaster team consisting of Alastair Burnet, Andrew Gardner, George Ffitch and Reginald Bosanquet. It was initially given a 13-week trial run, however, the programme proved to be extremely popular with viewers and continued for a further 32 years. ""News at Ten"""
"ITN's ""News at Ten"", introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV. Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s. Angela Rippon became the first female news presenter of the ""Nine O'Clock News"" in 1975. Her work outside the news was controversial at the time, appearing on ""The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show"" in 1976 singing and dancing. The first edition of ""John Craven's Newsround"", initially intended only as a short series and later renamed just ""Newsround"", came from studio N3 on 4 April 1972. Afternoon television news bulletins during the"
"ITV News at Ten News at Ten is the flagship evening news programme on British television network ITV, produced by ITN and founded by news editor Geoffrey Cox in July 1967. The bulletin was the first permanent 30-minute news broadcast in the United Kingdom, and although initially scheduled for only thirteen weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, the bulletin proved to be highly popular with audiences and became a fixture of the ITV schedule. ""News at Ten"" rose to popularity for its winning combination of in-depth, analytical news coverage and populist stories. It simultaneously helped"
"Sky News at Ten Sky News at Ten is a long-running daily news show on Sky News, airing between 10:00pm and 10:30pm. From Monday to Thursday, the show is presented by Anna Botting, while Anna Jones fronts the programme from Friday to Sunday. The show was originally launched on 8 March 1999 following the axe of ITV's ""News at Ten"". Originally, the show used its own special version of the Sky News graphics and a unique mix of the Sky News theme music, and was presented by Bob Friend and Anna Botting. Over the years, the programme has been presented"
"BBC News at Ten BBC News at Ten formerly known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten O'Clock News is the flagship evening news programme for British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented by Huw Edwards, and deputised by Fiona Bruce. It is Monday to Sunday at 10:00pm on BBC One. The programme was controversially moved from 9:00pm on 16 October 2000. The main presenter simultaneously holds the lead presenter role for major events, election night (from 2015) and breaking news for BBC News. The programme features thirty minutes of British national"
"Ten celebrating 50 years of the programme. She interviewed Sir Trevor McDonald, a former presenter of the programme. On 19 May 2018, Etchingham co-presented ITV’s coverage of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Phillip Schofield. Etchingham was voted ""Presenter of the Year"" at the Royal Television Society journalism awards in February 2010. She was the first woman ever to win the award. In February 2016, she won ""Presenter of the Year"" at the Royal Television Society journalism awards. In April 2016, Etchingham was named ""Broadcast Journalist of the Year"" by the London Press Club. In 1997, Etchingham"
"won awards in the television/news programme categories at the International Emmy awards (2009) and the Plain English Awards (2010). ITV News at Ten News at Ten is the flagship evening news programme on British television network ITV, produced by ITN and founded by news editor Geoffrey Cox in July 1967. The bulletin was the first permanent 30-minute news broadcast in the United Kingdom, and although initially scheduled for only thirteen weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, the bulletin proved to be highly popular with audiences and became a fixture of the ITV schedule. ""News at"
"female sports correspondent. Her first major assignment was covering the Wimbledon tennis tournament. During her time at ITV News, her role was extended to a relief newsreader on weekends and the ITV Lunchtime and Evening News. In August 2004, Barr covered the Olympic Games live from Athens. Until January 2006, she combined her role as sports presenter on the News At Ten Thirty with Trevor McDonald, with her duties as a newsreader on the now defunct ITV News Channel, anchoring weekdays with Steve Scott. Barr regularly anchored live from key locations such as Westminster during major stories for both the"
"to make way for The Nightly Show, a new, light entertainment program The show's presenter is still be on the air (even after the show ends) until midnight. Sky News at Ten Sky News at Ten is a long-running daily news show on Sky News, airing between 10:00pm and 10:30pm. From Monday to Thursday, the show is presented by Anna Botting, while Anna Jones fronts the programme from Friday to Sunday. The show was originally launched on 8 March 1999 following the axe of ITV's ""News at Ten"". Originally, the show used its own special version of the Sky News"
"channel. On 14 January 2008, the ""News at Ten"" returned, presented by Julie Etchingham and McDonald returned to his duties again. Mark Austin joined Etchingham as co-presenter in 2009. As of October 2015, Tom Bradby has been the main presenter on the programme. ""ITV News at 6.30"" has, since it was launched in 1999, been the network's most popular bulletin. Its presenters include Mark Austin, Mary Nightingale and Alastair Stewart. In March 2004, ITN took over production of ITV London's regional news programmes, which relocated from The London Television Centre on the South Bank to ITN's Gray's Inn Road base."
"introduction of the ITV National Weather forecast), and a new presenting team was formed comprising Carol Barnes, Nicholas Owen, Trevor McDonald, Fiona Armstrong, and Alastair Stewart. The programme lasted until March 1992 when it was renamed and relaunched, in line with other ITN bulletins. ""News at Ten"" continued to rate as the most popular news programme on television. In 1988, the programme launched specially made opening titles featuring a computer generated travel through London, up the River Thames until the camera stops at the ""Big Ben"" clockface. ITN's regular newscasting team in the 1980s included Alastair Burnet, Sandy Gall, Leonard"
"""News at Ten"" underwent a revamp on 9 November 1992 after the departures of newscasters Alastair Burnet (in August 1991) and Sandy Gall (in early 1992, though he did remain at ITN filing special war reports for ""News at Ten""). A new set was created for the programme, featuring television monitors, a large video screen, and a curved desk with ""News at Ten"" inscribed into it. Trevor McDonald became the sole newscaster of the programme. John Suchet, Dermot Murnaghan, and Julia Somerville were relief presenters for the bulletin. Initially, the new-look ""News at Ten"" was presented from the same studio"
"of news every Monday to Friday (there had only been one half-hour news programme in Britain previously – BBC2's ""Newsroom"", launched in 1964). However, the idea was approved on the condition it ran for a 13-week trial, and ""News at Ten"" was born on 3 July 1967. ITN's head newscasters – Alastair Burnet, Andrew Gardner, and George Ffitch – presented the first ""News at Ten"", and the bulletin became so popular with viewers that it was kept in the schedules after its initial 13 weeks. The programme's titles used an excerpt of ""The Awakening"", a piece of dramatic music composed"
"Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on ""Panorama"" in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the ""BBC News at Ten"" as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including the ""BBC News at Six"", ""Crimewatch"", ""Real Story"", ""Antiques Roadshow"" and ""Fake or Fortune?"". Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to become regional managing director of Unilever."
"regularly fronted the ITN flagship ""News at Ten"" programme, as well as other current affairs programmes, and in 1994 was voted Newscaster of the Year at the TV and Radio Industries Club Awards. Barnes left ITN in 1999, and then returned in 2003 to work on their short-lived 24-hour ITV News Channel, until she left in 2004. Following her retirement from ITN in 1999, Barnes was an occasional Dictionary Corner guest on the popular Channel 4 quiz show ""Countdown"" for the next couple of years, making 23 guest appearances on the programme until discontinuing her involvement in the series in"
"""ITV News London""'s main 6pm programme On 9 April 2014, White became the first black woman to present ""ITV News at Ten"" and occasionally co-presented this until October 2015. As of July 2014 she is an occasional newscaster of the ""ITV Lunchtime News"", ""ITV Evening News"" and ""ITV Weekend News"". White lives in South London and enjoys shopping. While presenting an ITV News bulletin, she refused to wear a Remembrance Day poppy, stating: ""I prefer to be neutral and impartial on screen so that one of those charities doesn't feel less favoured than another."" It was reported that following the"
"and that the award was ""demeaning"". Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on ""Panorama"" in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the ""BBC News at Ten"" as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including the ""BBC News at Six"", ""Crimewatch"", ""Real Story"", ""Antiques Roadshow"" and ""Fake or Fortune?"". Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to"
"with Tom Bradby. In October 2015, ""News at Ten"" relaunched and returned to the single newscaster format, with former political editor Tom Bradby becoming the programme's new main presenter. Etchingham continues on the programme as Deputy Anchor, sharing the role with Rageh Omaar. Etchingham also files special reports for the programme. In June 2016, she chaired ""Cameron and Farage Live: The EU Referendum"" and ""The ITV Referendum Debate"" for ITV News. In May 2017, Etchingham returned to chair ""The ITV Leaders' Debate"" ahead of the 2017 General Election. On 3 July 2017, Etchingham presented a special edition of News at"
"in her role as development lead with Dementia Friendly Communities. Angela Rippon Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944) is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's ""Nine O'Clock News"", becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news. Rippon appeared on a Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976, presented the first two series of ""Top Gear"" and also presented ""Come Dancing"". She was a presenter on, and co-founder of, breakfast"
"Julie Etchingham Julie Anne Etchingham (born 21 August 1969) is an English television newsreader and journalist with ITV News. A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, Etchingham joined the BBC as a trainee after completing her studies, and went on to present the children's news programme ""Newsround"" in 1994. She joined Sky News in 2002, and also presented editions of ""Five News"" when Sky won the contract to produce news programming for Channel 5 in 2005. Etchingham is currently a Newscaster of ""ITV News at Ten"" and has been since 2008. She has been the presenter of the current affairs programme"
"and was broadcast half an hour before it. Its other main rival was the BBC's other flagship evening news programme, ""Newsnight,"" on BBC Two. On Wednesday 31 October 2007, it was confirmed that ITV was planning to bring back ""News at Ten"", with the presenter Trevor McDonald and the Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham. The programme was presented by lead newscaster Trevor McDonald under the name ""ITV News at Ten Thirty"" from 2 February 2004, until McDonald's retirement and his last bulletin on 15 December 2005. Mark Austin took over from McDonald (Austin already hosted the programme on Fridays), with"
"bulletin, but within two months had become the first female newscaster on ""News at Ten"". In 1981, she controversially left ITN to join the presenting team of the soon-to-launch TV-am. ITN were bidding for the breakfast franchise themselves and had positioned Ford as the lead anchor in their bid, unaware that she was involved with any other bidder. When her subterfuge was exposed, ITN immediately terminated her contract and publicly criticized her dishonesty and disloyalty. Her tenure at TV-am was short lived in part due to fierce competition from the BBC's casually styled ""Breakfast Time"". The loss of viewers resulted"
"Ten"" to stem the ratings decline. The BBC then decided to cash in on the move by shifting its own long-running ""Nine O'Clock News"" to 10pm. McDonald returned to front the retitled ""ITV News at Ten"" in 2001, with a dual-presenting team of Dermot Murnaghan and Mary Nightingale replacing McDonald on the ""ITV Evening News"". However, the haphazard scheduling of the revived 10pm bulletin ultimately led to its downfall. While the BBC's ""Ten O'Clock News"" was fixed at 10pm for six nights a week, the ""ITV News at Ten"" was broadcast for only three nights a week, allowing entertainment programmes"
"Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News. After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2002 where she co-hosted ""Breakfast"" until 2005, when she became the host of the ""Six O'Clock News"". In October 2007, Kaplinsky was recruited to help relaunch Five (now known as Channel 5), reportedly for the highest fee ever paid to a UK newsreader, where she presented a new look, retitled ""Five News"
"Angela Rippon Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944) is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's ""Nine O'Clock News"", becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news. Rippon appeared on a Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976, presented the first two series of ""Top Gear"" and also presented ""Come Dancing"". She was a presenter on, and co-founder of, breakfast television franchisee TV-am. In the 1990s, she moved to radio,"
"as Deputy Editor. In 2004 she became the Editor of ITV News, being the first woman to become the head of network news. In 2008, Turness won 'The News and Factual Award' presented by Women in Television and Film. Also in 2008 she was the co-winner of an Amnesty International UK Media Awards for the television news report 'Too Young to Die - Children of the Frontline'. In 2010, she chaired the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. As Editor of ITN, Turness presided over a series of scoops and world exclusives including the arrest of the London bomber and the"
"Marian Foster Marian Foster (born 19 March 1948 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English television and radio presenter. Foster was educated at Dame Allan's School, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was trained as a music teacher and sang with the London Symphony Chorus. She is most famous for presenting the BBC1 afternoon chat show ""Pebble Mill at One"" for fourteen years, from 1972 to 1986. Before that she was one of ITV's first women reporters. She was also a host on the BBC2 car show ""Top Gear"". Later on television she fronted gardening reports for ""Look North"". She worked in"
"However, during Raworth's second maternity leave at the end of 2005, Natasha Kaplinsky stood in, originally as a temporary measure. As part of a presenter reshuffle in April 2006, Kaplinsky was confirmed as the new full-time presenter. Sophie Raworth was later named as the main presenter of the ""BBC News at One"". Raworth is now a regular presenter on the ""News at Six"" and ""BBC News at Ten"", covering for main presenters during their absences. Since April 2005, the programme has formed the first half-hour of the ""Six O'Clock Newshour"" on the BBC News Channel. The subsequent half-hour consists of"
"Huw Edwards (journalist) Huw Edwards (born 18 August 1961) is a Welsh journalist, presenter, and newsreader. As the BBC News lead presenter for major breaking news in the United Kingdom, Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, ""BBC News at Ten"", the corporation's flagship news broadcast. He also presents BBC coverage of state events, international events, the hour-long ""BBC News at Five"" on the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News and occasionally presents either as relief or as the BBC's chief presenter ""BBC News at Six"", ""BBC News at One"", ""BBC Weekend News"" and ""Daily Politics"". Edwards presented the BBC's"
"31 October 2007, ITV confirmed they would be resurrecting the ""News at Ten"" in 2008. Trevor McDonald would return as host with Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham co-anchoring the bulletin every night. In August 2008, Austin reported and presented for ITV News' Olympics: Beijing 2008 coverage. On 30 October 2008, ITV confirmed Trevor McDonald was stepping down from ""News at Ten"" and Austin would replace him. It was announced in August 2009, that Austin would be replaced by Alastair Stewart on the ""ITV Evening News"", in order for Austin to concentrate on his duties on ""News at Ten"". On 22"