"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"
"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"""
"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"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"shown on the stations of the ITV network. Part of this newscast, about half-way through the programme, included a domestic version of ""Super Channel News"" entitled ""ITN World News"". It featured the same presenters as the version shown on Super Channel. Trevor McDonald later presented the programme before going on to become chief newscaster on ""News at Ten"". Edward Stourton also presented occasionally. After the Gulf War, ""ITN World News"" was no longer shown as part of the morning newscast, and the newscast itself was halved and broadcast at 05.30 GMT, where it resided until December 2012 when the bulletin"
"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"
"In 2007, ITV plc's newly appointed chairman Michael Grade was reported as saying that the axing of the original ""News at Ten"" was ""the worst mistake ITV ever made""; not long afterwards, plans were made for the famous bulletin to return to ITV. ""News at Ten"" returned on 14 January 2008, with a revised version of the original theme tune, presented by Trevor McDonald (temporarily, until November of that year, after which point Mark Austin took over) and former Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham. The studio contained a VR view over night-time London (with an outline of the Big Ben"
"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."
"joined ITN, the new commercial TV channel in Britain as News Editor of Independent Television News. He started ""News at Ten"" in 1967. In 1977 Cox joined Yorkshire Television (YTV) as Ward Thomas' Deputy Chairman. Geoffrey Cox (journalist) Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE (7 April 1910 – 2 April 2008) was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist. He was a former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of ""News at Ten"". Cox was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of a bank manager, and educated at Southland Boys' High School, followed by the"
"Gall, the first ITN journalist to cover the start of the Vietnam War in 1965, returned there on several occasions to produce reports for ""News at Ten"" until he was forcibly removed from the country following the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Michael Nicholson reported in-depth on the 1976 Soweto uprising for ""News at Ten"", and later went on to cover the Falklands War in 1982, after which he was awarded the South Atlantic Medal for his work. ""News at Ten"", by now the UK's most popular news programme, ultimately forced the BBC to follow ITN's lead and extend its"
"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 review of the following morning' newspaper front pages. It was followed by a five-minute round-up of news from the ITV regions around the United"
"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"
"Geoffrey Cox (journalist) Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE (7 April 1910 – 2 April 2008) was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist. He was a former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of ""News at Ten"". Cox was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of a bank manager, and educated at Southland Boys' High School, followed by the University of Otago and then a Rhodes scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, during 1932-35. His career in journalism began in 1935 when he joined the ""News Chronicle"". He covered the Spanish Civil War from Madrid,"
"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"
"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"
"to axe ""News at Ten"" for a one-year trial period. The programme's demise in March 1999 coincided with an overhaul of news on ITV, which continued to be produced by ITN, but now branded on screen as ITV News. Trevor McDonald presented the new flagship ""ITV Evening News"" at 6:30pm, a one-minute news summary was broadcast at 10pm, and this was followed by the 20-minute ""ITV Nightly News"" at 11pm presented by Dermot Murnaghan. But these changes ultimately resulted in a 13.9% decline in overall viewing figures for ITV News. In 2000, the ITC ordered ITV to reinstate ""News at"
"of southwest Germany for a magazine for blind people. He died from a heart attack on 2 April 1999, aged 66. Andrew Gardner (newsreader) Andrew Gardner (25 September 1932 – 2 April 1999) was a newscaster on Independent Television News in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1977. He was also one of the original presenters of ""News at Ten"" when it began in 1967. He was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire and educated at the independent Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire. He was 6 ft 5 ins. His broadcasting career began with a spell as a radio journalist in South Africa"
"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"
"landing in 1969. Burnet left ITN in 1965 to rejoin ""The Economist"" as editor, but continued broadcasting as a reporter and interviewer for Associated-Rediffusion's weekly current affairs programme ""This Week"". He returned part-time to ITN in 1967 to launch ""News at Ten"" (initially as thirteen-week pilot), presenting the first programme on 3 July alongside Andrew Gardner, and also presented the short lived topical interview series ""Man in the News"" in 1970. He switched to the BBC in 1972 to report and present for ""Panorama"" and ""Midweek"" and to anchor coverage of the February and October 1974 General Election programmes, also"
"eat into its primetime entertainment schedule and turn viewers away from the channel, but the ITA granted Cox's wish in 1967. ITV reluctantly agreed to give the proposed bulletin – a Monday-to-Friday programme, fixed at 10pm – a 13-week trial run to test its success. ""News at Ten"" began broadcasting on 3 July 1967 under the editorship of Cox, who stipulated that the aim of the new programme was to ""remove the spin and bring facts and the news as it really was."" ITV's stance was seemingly confirmed early; the programme had little news to cover in its first few"
"was also broadcast at a later time at least one day a week, which meant it was often jokingly referred to as ""News at When?"" There was increasing speculation that the ""News at Ten"" would again be moved, after under-performing against the ""Ten O'Clock News"" on BBC One which broadcasts every day at 10:00pm. In October 2003, the Independent Television Commission gave ITV approval to move ""News at Ten"". The ""ITV News at 10.30"" launched on ITV on 2 February 2004 (the day that ITV in England, Wales and Southern Scotland came under the ownership of a single company) and"
"1980s, he spent some time with the ITN-produced ""Channel 4 News"", but returned to ITV in 1989, presenting the early-evening news. McDonald was promoted in 1992 as the sole presenter of ""News at Ten"" and became a well-known face on British television screens. McDonald stayed with ITN when ""News at Ten"" was axed in 1999, moving to present the new ""ITV Evening News"". ""News at Ten"" was briefly relaunched on 22 January 2001, to which McDonald returned as a presenter. He presented the ""ITV News at 10.30"" following ""News at Ten""s second axing. From 1999 to 2007, McDonald hosted ITV's"
"Alastair Burnet Sir James William Alexander Burnet (12 July 1928 – 20 July 2012), known as Alastair Burnet, was a British journalist and broadcaster, best known for his work in news and current affairs programmes, including a long career with ITN as chief presenter of the flagship ""News at Ten"" for eighteen years; Sir Robin Day described Burnet as ""the booster rocket that put ITN into orbit"". Burnet was also a prominent print journalist who edited ""The Economist"" and ""Daily Express"". Burnet was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Scottish parents on 12 July 1928. He was educated"
"viewers watching the BBC bulletin over the same period. The programme was launched on 16 October 2000, replacing the former ""BBC Nine O'Clock News"", which had been on the air since 14 September 1970. Its launch presenters were Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons. The move to 10 o'clock was a response to the controversial axing of rival broadcaster ITV's ""News at Ten"". ITV reinstated a 20-minute news bulletin at 10:00pm in 22 January 2001, instigating a head-to-head clash with the BBC. The BBC's ""Ten O'Clock News"" eventually became the more popular programme, establishing itself on the BBC One schedule for"
"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"
"1999 and January 2003, Edwards presented the ""BBC Six O'Clock News"". During this period, this was the most watched news programme in Britain. In January 2003, he became the main presenter of the ""Ten O'Clock News"" on BBC One, considered the corporation's flagship news broadcast. ""BBC News at Ten"" has since gone on to become the most watched news programme in Britain. Along with David Dimbleby, he also presents various special programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour and the State Opening of Parliament. He led the BBC commentary team at the opening and closing ceremonies of"
"editions, having launched in the middle of summer during a slow news week. However, a reversal of fortunes quickly took place after an ""action story"" from ITN reporter Alan Hart on the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders re-entering Crater, which ran for a then-unheard-of length of 5 minutes. A series of similar in-depth reports eventually helped to give ""News at Ten"" a regular viewership of seven million every night, forcing ITV to keep the programme. By 1969, ""News at Ten"" had become the first news bulletin in Britain to enter the top 20 most-watched programmes of the week. The arrival of"