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ITV News Meridian
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GenreNews
Created byITV Meridian
StarringSouth East: Sangeeta Bhabra
(2007 - present)
Ian Axton
(2007 - present)

South: Fred Dinenage
(1993 - present)
Debbie Thrower
(1993 - present)
Country of origin United Kingdom
Production
Running timeMeridian Tonight: 30 Minutes
Meridian News: Varies
Original release
NetworkITV1 Meridian
ReleaseJanuary 4 1993 –
present

Meridian Tonight is the flagship news programme in the ITV Meridian region. It broadcasts at 6pm every weeknight. Meridian Tonight began shortly after Meridian took over from TVS, on January 4 1993.

Meridian's franchise area is divided into 3 news sub-regions, although the Meridian Tonight name is only used for two of these - Meridian South East (Kent, Medway, southern Essex, East Sussex and Brighton and Hove), and Meridian South (Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, southern Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and eastern Dorset). The other sub-region, Meridian West (northern Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and parts of Surrey) merged its news operations on Monday December 4th 2006 with those of the Central South region, to form a non-franchise Thames Valley service, broadcasting Thames Valley Tonight from the same studio. Additionally, this services now covers Oxfordshire, the Swindon area and Buckinghamshire.

On Air

Meridian News airs on ITV1 Meridian seven days a week. ITV Meridian provides three news bulletins during GMTV*. The mid-morning bulletin airs immediately after an ITV News Summary, during This Morning, this update airs for around 10 minutes. The lunchtime edition of the programme follows on from the ITV Lunchtime News, giving a five minute round-up of the days developments between 1.55pm and 2.00pm. The main evening edition of Meridian Tonight begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm. The late news update from the region follows the ITV News at 10.30, airing between 10.55pm and 11.05pm.

Meridian News airs four bulletins at weekends: two on Saturday, at lunchtime, and late afternoon, and two on Sunday: at lunchtime and the evening edition at 6.25pm. Since the creation of the Thames Valley news region in December 2006, the weekend news bulletins are pan-regional, presented only from the Hampshire studios. Similarly weather forecasts show a combined map from Dorchester in the west to Dover and the Thanet towns in the east. The Thames Valley area retains its own news and weather forecast at the weekend.

  • Note that during GMTV, the weekday bulletins at approx. 6.35am, 7.05am and 8.05am are branded GMTV News and as a replacement for both Meridian News and the new Thames Valley News.

Merger

On 2007-09-12 it was reported that ITV boss Michael Grade wants to cut down its number of regional newsrooms from seventeen to nine by merging some services, which could save between £35m and £40m per year. This would involve the Meridian and Thames Valley areas being combined.[1]

Presenters

ITV Meridian South East

ITV Meridian South

ITV Thames Valley

Weather (all sub regions)

Past Presenters

External links

References

  1. ^ "ITV to merge regional newsrooms". BBC News. 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2007-09-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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