ITV News London

ITV News London
Also known as	'Good Morning London'
Presented by	Nina Hossain (Programme presenter) Sally Biddulph Suzanne Virdee (GMB opts newsreaders) Martin Stew (Weather presenter)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Location(s)	ITN Studios, Grays Inn Road, London, England
Editor(s)	Alex Chandler
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes (main 18:00 show)
Production company(s)	LNN (1993–2004); ITN (2004–present)
Release
Original network	ITV London
Picture format	1080i (HDTV 16:9)
Original release	1993 (1993) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Thames News (1978–1992), LWT News (1982–1993)
Related shows	ITV News, BBC London News
External links
Website

ITV News London is a regional news programme for the ITV London region (previously Carlton/LWT), produced by ITN.

History

LNN

The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993^[1] as London Tonight, after Carlton Television won the London weekday franchise from previous holder Thames Television. London Tonight was originally produced by London News Network – a joint venture between Carlton and LWT designed to provide a sole ITV regional news service for the London area, broadcasting seven days a week. Its creation established a continuity between the once separate services and presentation of weekend and weekday news, weather and sport in the region, previously provided by Thames News and LWT News.

The flagship programme, initially an hour long and presented by Alastair Stewart and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter London Today bulletins, launched on New Year's Day 1993 (LWT discontinued its own local news service over the weekend). The main evening programme was reduced to 30 minutes a year later, while from 25 November 1996 to September 2001, a half-hour lunchtime edition of London Today was broadcast on weekdays.

In addition to regional news, London News Network also produced a wide range of regional programming for both Carlton and LWT as well as providing transmission services for both stations.

ITN

In 2004, ITV London owners Carlton and Granada merged, forming ITV plc with LNN being dissolved soon after. Production for all ITV London News programming remained at The London Studios (formerly known as the LWT South Bank Centre) until 29 February 2004, when it was taken over by the national Channel 3 news provider ITN and moved to their headquarters in Central London, making the region the only operation not to produce its own news programmes in-house. Around 40 jobs were lost with the closure of LNN, although the programme retained its own editorial team.^[2] London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in February 2009.^[3] On 4 July 2012, ITV News editor Deborah Turness informed London Tonight employees a third of staff would be made redundant, with ITV News and London Tonight both sharing newsgathering and studios from 1 October 2012.^[4] On Monday 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ITV News London.^[5]

Nina Hossain has been main anchor of the programme since June 2010.^[6] Charlene White is a relief anchor as is Lucrezia Millarini.^[7] Other presenters mainly weekends are Sascha Williams, Alexandra Hyndman, Faye Barker, Sally Biddulph and Sangeeta Kandola.Notable former anchors include Katie Derham,^[8] Natasha Kaplinsky,^[9] Donal MacIntyre,^[10] rs on ITV London seven days a week. On weekdays, a four-minute lunchtime bulletin airs at 1.55pm, followed by the main half-hour programme at 6pm and an eight-minute late bulletin at 10.30pm following ITV News at Ten. At weekends, two 5-minute editions of ITV News London are broadcast – one later on Saturday afternoons and another on Sunday evenings.

On weekday mornings, Good Morning London airs short bulletins within Good Morning Britain at approximately 6.05am, 7.05am and 8.05am.

On air team

Current presenters

Former presenters

References

External links