Timeline of ITN

This is a timeline of the history of ITN.

1950s
  • 1955
    • January – A consortium of the initial four Independent Television broadcasting companies launch ITN, which will provide ITV with its news service.
    • 22 September – The first ITN news bulletin is broadcast at 10pm on ITV’s launch night.
  • 1956
    • No events.
  • 1957
    • No events.
  • 1958
    • No events.
  • 1959
    • No events.

1960s
  • 1960 to 1966
    • No events.
  • 1967
    • 3 July – News at Ten is launched as a 13-week trial of a nightly 30 minute bulletin.[1] The programme is an immediate success with the audience and is soon made permanent.
  • 1968
    • No events.

1970s
  • 1970
    • No events.
  • 1971
    • No events.
  • 1972
    • 16 October – Following a law change which removed all restrictions on broadcasting hours, ITV is able to launch an afternoon service. As part of the new service ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown.
  • 1973
    • No events.
  • 1974
    • 7 September – First Report is moved to a 1pm start time.
  • 1975
    • No events.
  • 1977
    • No events.
  • 1978
    • ITV's teletext service ORACLE launches with ITN providing the news pages.
  • 1979
    • No events.

1980s
  • 1980
    • No events.
  • 1981
    • No events.
  • 1982
    • 2 November – On the day of the launch of Channel 4, Channel 4 News is broadcast for the first time. The ITN-produced 60-minute programme is broadcast each weeknight at 7pm with a brief news summary broadcast at weekends.
  • 1983
    • No events.
  • 1984
    • No events.
  • 1985
    • No events.
  • 1986
    • No events.
  • 1987
    • ITN World News is launched as part of the launch of pan-European channel Superchannel.
    • 20 July – The lunchtime news programme moves to 12.30pm and is renamed accordingly.
    • 7 September – ITV launches a full morning programme schedule, with advertising, for the first time. The new service includes regular five-minute national news bulletins.
  • 1988
    • 15 February – An early morning 60-minute news programme – ITN Early Morning News – is launched but is only available in areas which have 24-hour broadcasting. The first 30 minutes of the programme includes a full broadcast of ITN's international news bulletin ITN World News. In addition, brief news summaries are broadcast at various points through the night.
    • 7 March – The lunchtime news returns to the 1 pm slot.
  • 1989
    • 3 April – The Channel 4 Daily launches with ITN providing the news input into the new breakfast service.

1990s
  • 1990
    • No events.
  • 1991
    • 7 January – The lunchtime news returns to the 12.30 pm slot.
    • ITN provides ITV with extensive live coverage of the Gulf War, both in terms of extended news bulletins and special programmes, including a daily bulletin at 9.25am.
    • March – Following the conclusion of the Gulf War, the ITN Early Morning News is halved in length and now goes on air at 5.30. From this point, the ITN World News is no longer broadcast as part of the bulletin.
    • ITN moves its headquarters to 200 Gray’s Inn Road.
  • 1993
    • No events.
  • 1994
    • No events.
  • 1995
    • No events.
  • 1996
    • No events.
  • 1997
    • 31 March – 5 News launches following the foundation of Channel 5 with ITN winning the contract to provide the channel’s news service.
    • December – ITN purchases a 49% share of Euronews for £5.1 million.[3] ITN supplied the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders.
    • ITN starts producing the Royal Christmas Message every other year.[4]
  • 1998
    • No events.
  • 1999
    • 5 March – ITV News at Ten is broadcast for the final time.
    • 8 March – Major changes to ITV's news programmes take place, including different times for the channel's news programmes and the programmes were referred to as ITV News rather than ITN News. The main bulletin of the day is now considered to be the Early Evening News and is moved from 5.40pm to 6.30pm and the evening news is controversially pushed back to 11pm although the following year the ITC forces ITV to move the late evening news back to 10pm on three nights each week. Also ITV's lunchtime news bulletin is relaunched as ITV Lunchtime News.
    • ITN World News is broadcast for the final time.

2000s
  • 2000
    • 1 August – The ITN News Channel launches. The channel is a joint venture between ITN and NTL.
  • 2001
    • ITN fights off a bid from British Sky Broadcasting to continue to provide ITV with its news service.
  • 2002
    • 30 September – The ITN News Channel is renamed ITV News Channel following the purchase of the channel by Carlton and Granada.
  • 2003
    • ITN provides live extensive coverage of the Iraq War with extended news coverage on ITV and rolling coverage on the ITV News Channel.
      • News at Ten is moved to 9pm for the duration of the conflict.
      • The Iraq War sees Channel 4 launch a new 30-minute lunchtime news bulletin. The programme is retained following the end of the conflict due to the bulletin’s instant popularity.
    • April – ITN sells its stake in Euronews as part of its drive to streamline operations and focus on news-gathering rather than channel management.[5][6]
  • 2004
    • March – Following its acquisition of the London News Network, a company previously owned by the now merged Carlton and Granada, ITN began producing local news bulletins for the ITV London region.
    • 2 February – After several years of inconsistent scheduling of the late evening news, the bulletin moves to a five nights a week 10.30pm start time.
  • 2005
    • 1 January – Sky News replaces ITN as news provider to Channel 5.[7]
    • 11 February – The ITV Lunchtime News is extended to last 60 minutes.
    • 10 October – The first edition of More4 News is broadcast to co-inside with the launch of More4.
    • 23 December – The ITV News Channel stops broadcasting at 6pm.Poor ratings in comparison to BBC News 24 and Sky News, and ITV's desire to re-use the channel's allocation on Freeview, were cited as the reasons.[8].
  • 2006
    • 4 September – The ITV Lunchtime News reverts to being a 30-minute programme and its start time is moved back to 1.30pm.
  • 2008
    • 14 January – ITV News at Ten returns to the schedules on four nights each week – the Friday edition remains at 11pm.[9]
    • October – ITN founds digital production company Diagonal View as a joint venture with digital entrepreneur Matt Heiman.[10] The company packages footage from the ITN archive and syndicates it to a range of commercial partners including MySpace, YouTube and MSN.
  • 2009
    • 2 March – Sky News replaces ITN as the news supplier for Independent Radio News. The final bulletin is broadcast at 1pm.
    • 23 June – Following Setanta Sports being placed into administration, Setanta Sports News closes, at 18:00, with 60 staff made redundant.[11]
    • 18 December – More4 News and Channel 4 News at Noon are broadcast for the final time.[12]

2010s
  • 2010
    • February – ITN Productions is formed and incorporates the non-news operations of ITN, including the former ITN On, ITN Factual and ITN Corporate divisions.[13]
  • 2011
    • No events.
  • 2012
    • 1 January – ITN regains the contract to provide news for Channel 5.
    • 21 December – The final edition of ITV's early morning news programme ITV News at 5:30 is broadcast. Consequently, there is no longer any overnight news coverage on ITV.
  • 2013
    • No events.
  • 2014
    • No events.
  • 2015
    • October – A new format for ITV News at Ten is launched as part of a move to enhance the reputation of ITV's news and current affairs output.[14]
  • 2016
    • At the end of 2016, ITN Source, which licensed ITN’s video footage, closes following the decision to outsource its archive sales to Getty Images.[15]
  • 2018
    • No events.
  • 2019
    • No events.

2020s
  • 2020
    • No events.

See also

References
  1. "News at Ten: Forty Years Off and On". ATV News & Soap Zone. 25 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
  2. Potter, Jeremy (2016). Independent Television in Britain: Volume 4: Companies and Programmes, 1968–80. Springer. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-349-09907-8. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. "ITN Acquires 49% Euronews Stake". Telecom Paper. 1 December 1997. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  4. Plunkett, John (2011-01-19). "Queen's Christmas message to be produced by Sky for first time". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  5. "ITN Drops Out of Euronews Channel". Broadcast.
  6. "EuroNews: Contribution by the Commission". European Commission. 2003. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  7. "Five to take Sky News bulletins". BBC News. 9 March 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
  8. Conlan, Tara (2005-12-14). "ITV News Channel axed". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  9. Tryhorn, Chris (7 December 2007). "News at Ten returns to ITV". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2007.
  10. Goss, Patrick (27 October 2008). "Odd TV clips to hit YouTube and MySpace". TechRadar. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  11. Setanta goes into administration The Guardian, 23 June 2009
  12. Deans, Jason (5 August 2009). "The Guardian – Channel 4 to axe News at Noon and More4 News". London. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  13. Jennifer Whitehead (25 February 2010). "Wheeler steps down as ITN On MD following divisions merger". New Media Age. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
  14. "ITV outlines vision for news". Broadcast. London. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  15. Sweney, Mark (2016-11-10). "ITN to cut 50 jobs as it seeks to increase revenue by half". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  16. "Sky acquires leading digital content producer Diagonal View – news from Sky Media". Sky Media. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  17. Tobitt, Charlotte (2019-04-18). "ITN reports increased broadcast news revenues of £88.9m for 2018". Press Gazette. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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