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British TV series or program

ITV News Tyne Tees is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the “Tyne Tees” region.

Overview[edit]

The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead with reporters also based at a Teesside office in Billingham. Both regional services (I.e ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround) utilise exactly 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 County Durham, North Yorkshire, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.

History[edit]

1959–1996[edit]

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 begun 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 news services for the North and South of the region unaffected. In January 1996 this was joined by lifestyle programme Tonight.[3]

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1996–2005[edit]

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 two separate news services and a lifestyle programme.

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

2005–2009[edit]

In August 2005, following chief presenter Mike Neville’s absence the month prior, North East Tonight opted for two separate news services for the Tyne Tees region once again:

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

2009–2013[edit]

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, Ofcom (the Office of Communications, the UK’s broadcasting regulator) 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 major ITV regional news 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]

The final North and South 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.[8]

The then remaining sub-regional elements were:

  • The opening 15 minutes of the main 6 pm programme.
  • Full late night bulletins on weeknights, following ITV News at Ten.
  • Localised weather forecasts.

On 14 January 2013, the “Tyne Tees” news service was relaunched and rebranded as ITV News Tyne Tees.[9]

2013–present[edit]

On 14 June 2013, it was reported ITV would restore a full 30-minute edition of Lookaround and shorter bulletins for Border viewers, effectively leading to a demerger of the Tyne Tees and Border services.[10] 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.[11] Daytime and weekend bulletins for the Tyne Tees region were reintroduced on Monday 16 September 2013.

From March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ITV Tyne Tees & Border services are impacted. Running times of all short bulletins were reduced. The main 6pm programme was now fronted by a single presenter instead of two.

On 23 November 2020, it was announced the main 6pm programme would return to two presenters from that night, with a slightly modified studio to allow for social distancing.[12]

On 28 March 2021, ITV Tyne Tees announced that Amy Lea would be the new co-presenter of the main weekday news programme alongside Ian Payne as of 29 March 2021, taking over from Pam Royle who left ITV on 26 March 2021.

Notable current on air staff[edit]

Former notable on air staff[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tyne Tees move to Watermark Archived 30 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine Gateshead Government
  2. ^ Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run Caitlin Fitzsimmons, The Guardian, 17 February 2009
  3. ^ City Road – News – News Timeline Transdiffusion
  4. ^ Popular news anchor stepping down, BBC News Online, 5 June 2006
  5. ^ “ITV to merge regional newsrooms”. BBC News. 12 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
  6. ^ “ITV journalists told that leaving collections are banned – Press Gazette”. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
  7. ^ Full Border TV Lookaround line-up revealed Archived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, News & Star, 17 January 2009
  8. ^ “Revamped Lookaround set for broadcast on February 25″ Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine News & Star, 7 February 2009
  9. ^ ITV launches rebrand on air and online, itv.com, 14 January 2012
  10. ^ Border to restore full Lookaround TV news bulletin Archived 12 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine James Johnson, News & Star, 14 June 2013
  11. ^ OFCOM sets out licence terms for ITV, STV, UTV and Channel 5 Archived 26 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine, OFCOM, 23 July 2013
  12. ^ 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 📺 t.co/Jn8CUlqCMl” (Tweet). Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ ITV Tyne Tees announces Amy Lea as replacement for Pam Royle The Northern Echo, Rachel Conner-Hill, 29 March 2021
  14. ^ a b Tyne Tees news presenters axed in cost cuts Archived 6 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, ChronicleLive, 3 December 2008
  15. ^ A Royle salute as popular North-East TV news presenter bows out after nearly 40 years Peter Barron, The Northern Echo, 19 January 2021
  16. ^ ITV Tyne Tees presenter Pam Royle to bid farewell to viewers in final broadcast Kieran Murray, Chronicle Live, 24 March 2021
  17. ^ End of an era as Pam Royle presents final programme at ITV Tyne Tees ITV News, 26 March 2021
  18. ^ Pam Royle presents final programme at ITV Border after more than a decade ITV News, 26 March 2021

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