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ITN launched a 24-hour news channel on 1 August 2000, which in 2002 was sold to the main ITV companies Carlton and Granada, and rebranded as the ITV News Channel. It was closed down in 2005. On the same day, ITN launched a 24-hour radio station called ITN News Radio. It broadcast nationally on the Digital One multiplex until 2003.
Due to the Gulf Crisis of 1991, ITN were temporarily granted a full half-hour slot each evening; the continued change of time (and length) of the bulletin around this time led to the News at 540 being known simply as the ITN News. On 2 March 1992, the ITN News at 540 was renamed as the ITN Early Evening News - a name previously used now and ...
ITN was set up by the Independent Television Authority to provide a new type of news service for the upcoming commercial television service Independent Television (ITV). ). Both ITN and ITV were launched on 22 September 1955, and the news service immediately broke new ground by introducing in-vision newscasters and reporter packages (incidentally, the first roster of regular ITN newscasters ...
ITN announced in the late summer of 1999 that it was set to launch its own news channel, initially by the end of the year, with the aim of competing against BBC News 24, Sky News and CNN International. Taking a long time to launch the channel would undermine ITN's efficacy within a few years.
Reporters from regional ITV News services (as well as from STV) and Good Morning Britain appear on national news bulletins (in particular, the ITV Lunchtime News) in the absence of any ITN correspondent or reporter.
1 March – Following its acquisition of the London News Network, a company previously owned by the now merged Carlton and Granada, ITN begins producing local news bulletins for the ITV London region. 2005. 1 January – Sky News replaces ITN as news provider to Channel 5. [8] 11 February – The ITV Lunchtime News is extended to last 60 minutes.
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 ...
The "In the news" (ITN) section on the Main Page serves to direct readers to articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest. ITN supports the central purpose of Wikipedia —making a great encyclopedia .