Thames Valley Tonight

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Thames Valley Tonight

Genre	News
Creator(s)	ITV Meridian
Starring	Wesley Smith Mary Green Hannah Shellswell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	Thames Valley Tonight: 30 Minutes Thames Valley Today: Varies
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1 Central (South), ITV1 Meridian (West) (ITV Thames Valley)
Original run	December 4, 2006 – present

Thames Valley Tonight is ITV1's regional news programme in the Thames Valley area of southern England. The new Thames Valley news region launched on 4 December 2006, the same day as Thames Valley Tonight. The region was created by a merger between Meridian West and Central South's regional news services, and broadcasts to the Meridian West sub-region from the Hannington transmitter, and the Central South sub-region from the Oxford transmitter. Like all ITV1 regional news programmes, it uses the generic ITV font and idents.

[edit] On Air

Thames Valley Today/Tonight airs on ITV1 Thames Valley seven days a week:

Weekdays

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

Thames Valley Today/Tonight also airs regular bulletins throughout the weekend.

Note that during GMTV, the bulletins at approx. 6.35am, 7.05am and 8.05am are branded GMTV News and cover both the Thames Valley area and the rest of the Meridian franchise. Non-news programming is still split between the franchisees meaning that viewers in the north of the Thames Valley still receive Central programming and those in the south receive Meridian.