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ITN had provided a short lunchtime news summary to start the ITV schedules on a Saturday since 1959, with an afternoon news summary on a Sunday starting in the mid-1960s, however it was the lifting of the restrictions on 16 October 1972 which helped ITN to launch a codified, more solid weekday lunchtime news programme as part of a raft of new ...
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1 October – LWT launches the UK's first Sunday politics programme Weekend World. 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.
1965 sees the end of regular lunchtime programming on ITV. Most regions had broadcast a weekday lunchtime entertainment show since the earliest days of ITV. 1966. No events. 1967. 3 July – News at Ten is launched as a 13-week trial of a nightly 30-minute bulletin. The programme is soon made a permanent feature of the schedules. 1968
7 March – The lunchtime news returns to the 1pm slot. 1989. 15 February – The introduction of a national weather forecast at the end of national news bulletins results in the News at 5.45 starting earlier at 5:40pm, being extended in length and the title being changed to News at 540.
Wales Tonight is renamed HTV Wales News. [14] Ulster's UTV Live is brought forward by half an hour to start at 5:30pm. The first half-hour sees feature reports, light-hearted stories and the weather forecast branded as part of a separate programme, UTV Life, which ran before the main evening news, started at 6pm and kept the UTV Live name.
The Price Is Right (ITV 1984–1988, 1995–2001 & 2006–2007, Sky One 1989–1991, revived for Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow 2020) Primeval (2007–2011, Watch 2011) Prisoner: Cell Block H (on various ITV regions between 1984 and 1999; later on Channel 5 from 1997 to 2001)
Since 2017, coinciding with schedule changes on the BBC News channel, the presenter of the BBC News at One has fronted the full one-hour slot. [citation needed] It also features an extended Sport Today and World Business Report. On 28 June 2021, a new regional round up called Across the UK was introduced looking at stories from the nations and ...