ITV News London

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

ITV News London is the name of the local news programme broadcast in the ITV London region. Since March 2004, it has been produced by ITN ; prior to this date, the programme and shorter bulletins were produced by the London News Network, a joint venture co-owned equally by Carlton Television and London Weekend Television.

History
The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993 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 Alistair Stewart and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter London Today bulletins, launched on New Year's Day 1993. 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.

On 3 May 1994 London Tonight, become a 30mins format moving to 18.30. A new programme AFTER 5 produced by LNN, starting the same day, dealing with mainly with the non news pieces which used to be part of London tonight, with Mary Nightingale, Caron keating and Fern Britton all presenting the series. After 5 was axed on Monday 25 November 1996, when London Tonight started to broadcast a full 30 min lunchtime bulletin, which is self was axed by September 2001.

London Tonight receives its first graphics update by 1999; however, the colourful title sequence is quickly replaced on 6 September for a more subdued blue-tinted example. Until October 2002, all bulletins are credited to the London News Network alongside the logos of Carlton and LWT.

ITN
In 2004 ITV London (weekday) and (weekend) owners Carlton and Granada merged, forming ITV plc with LNN being dissolved soon after this. 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 as part of "Longer term Plan plan to take complete control of ITN and return it to its original status as an arm of ITV". During 2003 talk took place when it was announced up 40 job were to be lost, as part of the shake up, LNN were looking for voluntarily redundancies. When the new programme went live, The Unions still had concerns that quality of the London news output could drop with less staff but ITN stated the London Tonight would still have its own Dedicated editorial team, Mr Wood insisted "ITN would provide outstanding regional news programmes that reflect the lives and interests of people living in the capital". Weather forecast bulletins to come under the ITN fold, six weeks later on the 25 May

2006: In line with the rebrand of ITV's corporate image, a new presentation package launches on London Tonight on 16 January. 2007: London Tonight receives a new graphics package to mark its upgrade to true 16:9 widescreen broadcasts. London Tonight is unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in late 2008 to early 2009. 2009: London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in February 2009. Completing the gradual rebranding of ITV plc's regional news services, London Tonight is treated to opening titles and on-air graphics which resemble the output on network bulletins.

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. The cost-cutting measure is described by the NUJ as "savage". On Monday 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ITV News London.

Broadcast times
ITV News London airs on ITV London seven days a week.

On weekdays, three short bulletins are broadcast during Daybreak at 6:07am, 7:05am and 8:05am with a six-minute lunchtime bulletin at 1:55pm, following the ITV News at 1:30. The main half-hour programme airs at 6pm with a late bulletin at 10:30pm, following the ITV News at Ten.

At weekends, two 15-minute editions of ITV News London are broadcast - one later on Saturday afternoons and another on Sunday evenings.

Current on air team
Note: In addition to the dedicated ITV News London presenters and correspondents listed below, ITV News and regional ITV journalists may appear for supporting or relief purposes.

Presenters

 * Programme presenters


 * Newsreaders


 * Weather presenters

Correspondents

 * News Correspondents


 * Specialist Correspondents

Former on air team

 * Lucy Alexander
 * Anna Maria Ashe
 * Felicity Barr (Al Jazeera English)
 * Paul Brand (Calendar, ITV News Tyne Tees & Lookaround)
 * Steve Clamp (ITV News Central)
 * Lucy Cotter (Sky News)
 * Martyn Davies (emigrated to Australia)
 * Katie Derham (BBC)
 * Ali Douglas
 * Murray Dron
 * Fiona Foster (BBC World and Tonight)
 * Steve Gaisford
 * Phil Gayle
 * Jon Gilbert
 * Daisy Gray (ITV News West Country)
 * Damon Green (ITV News)
 * Sam Green
 * Steve Hargrave


 * Leon Hawthorne
 * Alexandra Hill
 * Jackie Kabler (QVC)
 * Natasha Kaplinsky (ITV News)
 * James King
 * Sian Lloyd (ITV Weather)
 * Jasmine Lowson
 * Donal MacIntyre
 * Robin McCallum
 * Rachel McTavish (STV News at Six)
 * Rachel Millichip
 * Sarah Mills
 * Mary Nightingale (ITV News)
 * Bridgid Nzekwu
 * Joyce Ohajah
 * Marcus Powell
 * Chrissie Reidy (South East Today)
 * Tamsin Roberts


 * Chris Rogers (BBC News)
 * Robin Ross
 * Ben Scotchbrook
 * Carolyn Sim
 * Keir Simmons (NBC News)
 * Emma Simpson
 * Salma Siraj
 * Alastair Stewart (ITV News)
 * Tamzin Sylvester
 * Matt Teale (ITV News Central & Sky News)
 * Owen Thomas
 * Philippa Tomson (Sky News)
 * Bhavani Vadde
 * Emma Walden
 * Romilly Weeks (ITV News)
 * Liz Wickham
 * Jonathan Wills (ITV News Anglia)