Granada Reports

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Granada Reports

Genre	News
Created by	ITV Granada
Starring	Lucy Meacock Tony Morris
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	Granada Reports: 30 Minutes Granada News: Varies
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV Granada

Granada Reports is the flagship news programme of ITV franchisee Granada, presented by Tony Morris (formerly of BBC North West) and Lucy Meacock, and transmitting to the North West of England. The name was used when the news service was launched in 1980, but other names including Granada Tonight, Granada News, etc. have been used. ^[1].

1 On Air
2 Presenters
3 Award Winning Programme
4 Presentation
5 References
6 External links

[edit] On Air

Granada News airs on ITV Granada seven days a week. Granada Television 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 Granada Reports begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm. The late news update from the region follows the News at Ten, airing between 10.25pm and 10.35pm, Mondays to Thursdays, and between 11.25pm and 11.35pm on Fridays, after The Late News.

Granada 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.

[edit] Presenters

Fred Talbot is currently the longest serving member at Granada Reports; he joined Granada Reports in 1985. He has done the weather forecast but currently does reports - usually shown on Granada Reports in the weekday evenings.

Lucy Meacock has been a main anchor since she joined during a revamp of the programme in 1990. She and Tony Morris currently co-present the main evening programme, but other presenters are used occasionally. She has also be known to occasionally present the ITV Weekend News.

The shorter news reports are usually presented by Sarah Elliott, Kate Giffard or Caroline Wareham. Keri Eldridge joined as a relief presenter and is now on the staff full-time.

Weather is presented by Jon Mitchell, Jo Blythe, Debbie Lindley and Kerrie Gosney.

Former presenters include Richard Madeley (former anchor of This Morning and one half of Richard and Judy), Tony Wilson, and Bob Greaves. Also, many former presenters of the programme were also continuity announcers for Granada, who mostly presented the shorter news bulletins throughout the day. These bulletins were presented by the likes of Charles Foster, Colin Weston, Andrew Brittain and Jim Pope. The announcers stopped their newsreading duties in 1993.

[edit] Award Winning Programme

In 2007 Granada Reports won three prestigious Network Television Awards for its coverage of the end of the Morecambe Bay Cockling Trial.

Granada Reports won the 2007 National Royal Television Society (RTS) Nations and Regions Best News Coverage.

Granada Reports became the first regional TV news operation to be named Best News Programme at the 2007 Broadcast Awards.

On 20th May 2007, Granada Reports won the BAFTA for Best News Coverage in the 2007 BAFTA Television Awards, becoming the first regional TV news programme to do so.

In November 2007 Granada Reports also won the North West Regional RTS for Best Regional Programme for its coverage of Bad Weather.

In 2008 Granada Reports again won another network award. It retained the National Royal Television Society Nations and Regions Award for Best News Coverage. This time it was for their Programme on the end of the Lesley Molseed Trial. Judges praised the agenda setting Programme. It was the first time a region had won the award for two years running.

[edit] Presentation

The news from Granada has been through many facelifts; there were times when presented in the newsroom, in a lounge with sofas to give it a more welcoming and warm look, and in an American news style. More recently, the set follows the corporate regional look, established by ITV London's London Tonight, and has done so since 2004. Granada Reports have a good relationship with GMG Radio owned station 105.4 Century Radio. With one of the presenters broadcasting what's on the evening programme during the radio station's Century Tonight news programme.