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For much of its run, Granada Tonight placed a greater emphasis on non-news features and entertainment content, with its studio set consisting of sofas and armchairs. On 1 October 2001, the main evening programme reverted back to the Granada Reports brand, while short bulletins continued to air as Granada News.
On 13 November 2006, Granada lost its on-air identity when regional programming voiced ITV1 or ITV1 Granada over a generic ident. Local news coverage was branded Granada News except for the main 18.00 Granada Reports bulletin. Granada Reports ' main rival is BBC North West Tonight, broadcast to roughly the same region. In 2009, ITV removed the ...
2 January – Granada Television's nightly news programme Granada Reports is rebranded as Granada Tonight and the shorter bulletins are rebranded as Granada News. May – What the Papers Say which has been broadcast on ITV and Channel 4 since 1956, becomes the first Granada commission for the BBC when the show transfers over to them.
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.
Greaves became a mainstay chief presenter of the station's flagship regional news output, including Newscene, Granada Reports & Granada Tonight for over 30 years and fronted a wide range of local current affairs and features programming, including Scramble, Family Trees, Bob's Century, Time Off and Bob's Hotline.
Tonight (often referred to as The Tonight Programme and formerly known as Tonight with Trevor McDonald) is a British current affairs programme, produced by ITV Studios (formerly Granada Television) and ITN for the ITV network, replacing the long-running investigative series World in Action in 1999.
Granada Studios was a television studio complex and events venue on Quay Street in Manchester, England, with the facility to broadcast live and recorded television programmes. The studios were the headquarters of Granada Television from 1956 to 2013.
Gordon Henry Burns (born 10 June 1942) is a retired Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He was the host of The Krypton Factor for its original 18-year run (1977–1995) and was the chief anchorman for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight from January 1997 to October 2011.