Calendar (News)

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Calendar

Genre	News
Creator(s)	ITV Yorkshire
Starring	Duncan Wood Christine Talbot Gaynor Barnes
Production
Running time	Main bulletin: 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1 Yorkshire
Original run	29 July 1968 – present

Calendar is the local news programme for ITV Yorkshire. It began on 29 July 1968, the same day as Yorkshire Television (YTV) came on air.

Unlike many regional news programmes at that time Calendar adopted a magazine-style approach and benefitted from heavy investment by Yorkshire Television in local news gathering.

The Calendar title has been used by various programmes produced by YTV in both news and other genres, including the short-lived Good Morning Calendar breakfast show; the parliamentary programme Calendar Lobby; and Calendar Catwalk, a fashion show. Unlike the other ITV regions, the Calendar title is used for all YTV news bulletins.

The name Calendar was also attached to the local version of the Channel 4 launch show, Countdown, which ran for one series on YTV before the start of Channel 4 as Calendar Countdown.

The main programme is called "Calendar". All other shorter bulletins are called 'Calendar News'

The mid morning and lunchtime Calendar News bulletins are split into three sub-regions. Calendar East which broadcasts to East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk, Calendar South which broadcasts to Sheffield and North Derbyshire and Calendar News which broadcasts to the rest of the region (which is why no compass point is used). There is also a 5 minute round-up during the main Calendar programme where the programme splits into three parts for local news.

Until 1989 the show was produced in the main YTV facility at Kirkstall Road, Leeds. In that year the company purchased a former swimming baths opposite the studios and converted that to a dedicated newsroom, production and transmission centre for local news.

On January 8, 2007, Calendar's main 6pm programme was split into North and South editions (the latter combines the former East and South sub-regions). All other bulletins have become pan-regional.

1 On Air
2 Presenters
3 Short bulletin presenters
4 Reporters
5 Weather Forecasters
6 Former presenters
7 Calendar Spinoffs
8 Trivia
9 External links

[edit] On Air

Calendar airs on ITV1 Yorkshire seven days a week:

Weekdays

Approx. 6.35am, 7.05am and 8.05am during GMTV
11.10 - 11.15 (During This Morning)
13.50 - 13.55 (During ITV Lunchtime News)
18.00 - 18.30 (Before ITV Evening News)
22.50 - 22.55 (During ITV News at 10.30)

Weekends

Calendar also airs regular bulletins throughout the weekend.

[edit] Presenters

Calendar North presenters, Christine Talbot and Duncan Wood

Calendar North

Calendar South

Gaynor Barnes
John Shires

[edit] Short bulletin presenters

Dave Devonport
Michelle Gee
Rachel Hepworth
Carolyn Hodgson - GMTV/early bulletin presenter
Frazer Maude - Occasional bulletin presenter
Jason McCartney - Weekend bulletin presenter and sports reporter
Peter McNerney - Producer and occasional presenter
Nisha Pankania - Calendar South presenter
Karen Petch - Calendar South presenter
Rachel Phillips
Lisa Walton

[edit] Reporters

Some reporters also occasionally present bulletins

Tim Iredale - Political Editor
Tina Gelder - Consumer reporter
Dave Harrison - London based reporter
Kate Webster - Senior News Correspondent
Chris Kiddey - News Correspondent
Lisa Adlam - News Correspondent
Raj Shukla - News Correspondent
Paul Burland - Sport
Gail Mellors - Reporter

[edit] Weather Forecasters

Jon Mitchell - Calendar's main weather presenter.
Jo Blythe
Kerrie Gosney
Steve Hadley
Debbie Lindley

[edit] Former presenters

Christa Ackroyd - now with BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)
Jonathan Aitken
Penny Bustin
Paul Dunstan
Geoff Druett
Liz Fox
Roger Greenwood
Robert Hall
Alan Hardwick
Richard Madeley
Austin Mitchell
Mike Morris
Ruth Pitt
Sid Waddell - presenter/producer
Marylyn Webb
Simon Welfare
Richard Whiteley
Faye Barker - now working for Sky on Channel five news

[edit] Calendar Spinoffs

Calendar Calling
Calendar Carousel
Calendar Commentary
Calendar Countdown
Calendar Fashion Show
Calendar Friday
Calendar Goes Pop
Calendar Kids
Calendar Lunchtime Live
Calendar People
Calendar Tuesday
Calendar Sport
Christmas Calendar
Country Calendar
Good Morning Calendar

[edit] Trivia

Good Morning Calendar, which started in 1977, is credited as being the UK's first breakfast television programme, around five years before the launch of TV-am. [1]
The first-ever edition of Calendar was pre-recorded an hour before transmission. Due to a technical fault the show was transmitted incorrectly; what viewers saw resembled a photographic negative.
During one live edition in 1969 university students interrupted the show and 'kidnapped' the guest, actress Anita Harris, as part of their rag week stunts