''ITV News at 5:30'' is an early morning news bulletin which was broadcast on the British television network ITV from 15 February 1988 until 21 December 2012. It was produced by

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. The 30-minute programme covered British national and international news stories, a brief business update, a look at the morning's newspapers and regular

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segments and broadcasts at 5:30 am every day. In the event of a major news story, they occasionally went live to the scene or crossed to the newsroom.

History

The programme began as the ''ITN Morning News'' on 15 February 1988 with the advent of 24-hour television on ITV; preceding it throughout the night would be 90-second mini-bulletins, fronted by the same anchor as the Morning News. It originally ran for an hour from 5:00am and was the first pre-

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outlet in Britain to broadcast regular segments from

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. The first thirty minutes included a broadcast of the ''

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'', a bulletin intended for the international audience and composed solely of major world stories, and the second thirty minutes focused on national news stories. The practice of including the ''

'' as part of an "hour-long" ''ITN Morning News'' ended by 4 March 1991, and the time slot was amended accordingly to 5:30am. During the Christmas period, the programme was shortened to a 5 minute bulletin airing at 5:55am. Some EPGs and

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referred to the programme as the ''ITV Early Morning News''. On 2 November 2009 the ''ITV Morning News'' was renamed as simply ''ITV News'' to coincide with the re-branding of ITV News output. On 27 November 2012, it was announced that ITV is to axe the bulletin in favour of delivering content online for

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and extra resources to be put into creating a new foreign affairs unit. The programme last aired on 21 December 2012.ITV lays Morning News to rest
Balihar Khalsa, Broadcast Now, 27 November 2012

Newscasters (1988–2012)

*Ian Axton *

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* Chris Rogers *Phil Roman * Salma Siraj *

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* Owen Thomas * Denis Tuohy * Mark Webster *

Charlene White Charlene Denise White (born 22 June 1980) is a British television broadcaster, journalist and presenter, best known for presenting ''ITV News'' programmes. She has been an anchor on '' Loose Women'' since 2021.Tim Willcox Timothy Melton Willcox (born 28 May 1963 in Wellington, Somerset, Wellington, Somerset) is a British journalist who formerly worked as a presenter for BBC News. He presents news programmes on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. He is proba ...

* Sascha Williams * Sally Biddulph

Reporter

* Yao Chin (2008–2012)

References

External links

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