ITV News Tyne Tees

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ITV News Tyne Tees
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Presented byAmy Lea & Ian Payne
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Producers
Production locations
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time29 minutes (18:00 broadcast)
Original release
Network ITV1 (ITV Tyne Tees)
Release1959 (1959) –
present
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ITV News Tyne Tees is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the Tyne Tees region.

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Overview

The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead [1] with reporters also based at a Teesside office in Billingham. Both regional services (i.e ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround ) use the same presenter(s) and studio/set, therefore one of the two programmes—depending on the day's news—is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast. [2]

The Tyne Tees news service transmits to Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Northumberland, Teesside, the Alston area of Cumbria, and parts of North Yorkshire.

History

1959–1996

On 15 January 1959, the original Tyne Tees Television news service was launched with short evening bulletins and a weekly magazine programme, North East Roundabout which was broadcast each Friday. On 30 March 1964, it began airing nightly with the modified name North East Newsview. In 1969, the station's first colour television news programme was broadcast under the new name of Today at Six. From 6 September 1976, Tyne Tees' longest-running news programme Northern Life aired with notable presenters including Paul Frost and Pam Royle. On 5 October 1992 this was replaced by Tyne Tees Today (and from 31 March 1993 a sub-regional service would be known as Network North for South of the region only). In November 1995 both Tyne Tees Today and Network North were renamed to Tyne Tees News although separate editions for the North and South of the region were retained. In January 1996 this was joined by lifestyle programme, Tonight. [3]

1996–2005

On Monday 2 September 1996, following the defection of the popular Mike Neville to Tyne Tees from the BBC's Look North after 32 years, North East Tonight was launched, replacing the two separate news services and the lifestyle programme, Tonight.

2005–2009

In August and November 2005, ITV Tyne Tees trialed sub-regional editions of North East Tonight.

This was in turn following chief presenter Mike Neville's absence from July 2005.

Other bulletins including GMTV bulletins, weekday lunchtime, weekday late, and weekend early evening were pan-regional.

The sub-regional editions would become permanent from January 2006.

Mike Neville announced his retirement from the programme on 5 June 2006, after almost a year on sick leave. [4]

2009–2013

In September 2007, ITV plc announced that Tyne Tees' newsroom would be merged with ITV Border, subject to Ofcom approval. [5]

On 26 September 2008, broadcasting regulator Ofcom authorised ITV's plans to save £40 million a year by making regional programming cutbacks. These include axing mid-morning bulletins on weekdays and lunchtime bulletins at weekends, merging a number of regions and axing most non-news regional programmes.

As part of these cuts, taking place from November 2008 to February 2009, around 50 staff were made redundant or accepted voluntary redundancy at ITV Tyne Tees. On 16 December 2008, Press Gazette leaked that journalists were told that leaving collections were banned, along with leaving presentations and on-screen goodbyes. In a staff memo, head of news Catherine Houlihan cited the ban was because of the large number of staff being made redundant at the station. [6] One worker told Press Gazette that "morale is at rock bottom". The main anchors were announced as Ian Payne and Pam Royle. [7] [8]

The last sub-regional editions of North East Tonight aired on 13 February 2009.

ITV Tyne Tees & Border was formed on 25 February 2009, with Lookaround and North East Tonight titles retained for the 6 pm programme and late bulletin each weekday, whilst shorter bulletins were known simply as Tyne Tees & Border News. [9]

The remaining “Tyne Tees” only elements were:

On 14 January 2013, the Tyne Tees news service was relaunched and rebranded as ITV News Tyne Tees. [10]

2013–present

On 14 June 2013, it was reported ITV would restore a full 30-minute edition of Lookaround and shorter bulletins for Border viewers, leading to separation of the Tyne Tees and Border news programmes. [11] Ofcom approved the plans a month later, allowing Tyne Tees to reintroduce its own full regional news service. The minutage requirement for the main evening programme was reduced from 30 to 20 minutes, although ITV retain a full half-hour with the option of using some aggregate content from other regions. [12] Daytime and weekend bulletins for the Tyne Tees region were reintroduced on Monday 16 September 2013.

From March 2020, the news service was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; the running time of all short bulletins was reduced and the main 6pm programme was fronted by a single presenter instead of two. The main 6pm programme returned to having two presenters on 23 November 2020, with a slightly modified studio layout to allow for social distancing. [13]

In March 2021, Amy Lea would succeed the retiring Pam Royle. [14] [15] [16] [17]

Notable current on air staff

Former notable on air staff

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References

  1. ↑ "Tyne Tees moves to Watermark" (PDF). Business Briefing. Gateshead Council Economic Development Service. October 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2006.
  2. ↑ Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (17 February 2009). "Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run". The Guardian . London. ISSN   1756-3224. ITV has merged several local news regions in a move that has seen 430 jobs go and is expected to save £40m. But how will the new services look?
  3. ↑ Bowden, Andrew (20 March 2007). "News Timeline". In-Depth > Tyne Tees > News Progammes. The Transdiffusion Organisation. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Popular news anchor stepping down". BBC News . BBC. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 13 September 2023. Well-known broadcaster Mike Neville has announced he is stepping down.
  5. ↑ "ITV to merge regional newsrooms". BBC News . BBC. 12 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  6. ↑ "ITV journalists told that leaving collections are banned". Press Gazette . 17 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Full Border TV Lookaround line-up revealed Archived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine , News & Star, 17 January 2009
  8. 1 2 3 Barr, Gordon (6 December 2008). "Tyne Tees news presenters axed in cost cuts". Evening Chronicle . Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008.
  9. ↑ Story, Chris (11 February 2012). "Revamped Lookaround set for broadcast on February 25". News and Star . Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  10. ↑ ITV launches rebrand on air and online, itv.com, 14 January 2012
  11. ↑ Johnson, James (19 June 2013). "Border to Restore Full Lookaround TV News Bulletin". News and Star . Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  12. ↑ "Ofcom sets out licence terms for ITV, STV, UTV and Channel 5" (Press release). Ofcom. 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  13. ↑ ITV News Tyne Tees [@itvtynetees] (23 November 2020). "From tonight, ITV Tyne Tees is going back to two presenters. Here's @PamRoyleITV explaining the safety measures we've put in place to reunite Pam & Ian on your screens again 📺 https://t.co/Jn8CUlqCMl" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023– via Twitter.
  14. 1 2 Conner-Hill, Rachel (21 March 2021). "ITV Tyne Tees announces Amy Lea as replacement for Pam Royle". The Northern Echo . Newsquest. ISSN   2043-0442 . Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  15. 1 2 Barron, Peter (19 January 2020). "A Royle salute as popular North-East TV news presenter bows out after nearly 40 years". The Northern Echo . Darlington: Newsquest. ISSN   2043-0442 . Retrieved 13 September 2020. Here is the news…one of the region's best-known personalities is stepping down from her role as the face of regional TV news. Pam Royle speaks exclusively to Peter Barron about her career in front of the cameras
  16. 1 2 Murray, Kieran (24 March 2021). "ITV Tyne Tees presenter Pam Royle to bid farewell to viewers in final broadcast". Evening Chronicle . Newcastle upon Tyne: Reach . Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  17. ↑ "End of an era as Pam Royle presents final programme at ITV Tyne Tees". ITV News. 21 March 2021.
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