| Lookaround | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | ITV Tyne Tees & Border News |
| Format | Regional News |
| Presented by | Ian Payne Pam Royle |
| Country of origin | United Kindom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lucy West (Head of News) |
| Location(s) | Gateshead, England, UK |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 6pm show) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Border (1961-2009); ITV Tyne Tees & Border (2009-present) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV1 Border |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9) |
| Original run | 1961 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | ITV News, North East Tonight, BBC Look North |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Lookaround is a regional television news and current affairs programme, also including local sports news and local features of interest, produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border at its studios in Gateshead, and serving the "Border" part of the region (Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders, and previously the Isle of Man). The Isle of Man was transferred to the ITV Granada region (covered by Granada Reports) on 16 July 2009.
The programme is broadcast on ITV Border each weeknight at 6pm with a shorter bulletin airing at 10:30pm. The remainder of the ITV Tyne Tees & Border region (i.e. the former "Tyne Tees" area) consists of North East England and North Yorkshire, and receives North East Tonight in these time slots.
Like all regional news programmes on ITV1 in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses the generic ITV font and idents.
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Up until the station's non-franchise merger with Tyne Tees, (from 1 September 1961 to Tuesday 24 February 2009), Border Television produced a wholly separate news service for its broadcast area from studios at Harraby, Carlisle.
There had always been wholly separate ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border regions. Border Television were based at studios in Carlisle, Cumbria. The main evening programme was known as Lookaround with all other bulletins branded as Border News. Meanwhile, the Tyne Tees region had retained its own wholly separate news services.
Lookaround is one of the most popular regional news magazines in the UK, and has been on-air since 1961, when what was then Border Television launched.
In September 2007, ITV plc announced that ITV Border news operations would be merged with ITV Tyne Tees, subject to Ofcom approval.[1]
On 26 September 2008, OFCOM (the Office of Communications, the UK's broadcasting regulator) authorised ITV's plans to save £40m a year by making regional programming cutbacks. These include axing mid-morning bulletins on weekdays and lunchtime bulletins at weekends, plus merging a number of regions and halving the number of non-news regional programmes.
Following a survey of Isle of Man viewers in autumn 2008[2], coverage of the Isle of Man was transferred from Border to ITV Granada News in July 2009.[3][4][5]
ITV Border won the RTS awards for Best News Programme: Nations and Regions for Lookaround in 2011.
Lookaround and Tyne Tees & Border News airs on ITV1 Border seven days a week.
Weekdays
| Programme | Scheduled Slot | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Tyne Tees & Border News (broadcast during Daybreak) | 06:15, 07:15 and 08:15 | Sarah Kelly |
| Tyne Tees & Border News (broadcast after the ITV News at 1:30) | 13:55-14:00 | Ian Payne, Pam Royle or Sarah Kelly |
| Lookaround | 18:00-18:30 | Ian Payne and Pam Royle |
| Lookaround (broadcast after ITV News at Ten) | 22:30-22:35 | Ian Payne or Pam Royle (Monday-Thursday). Various (Friday). |
Weekends
| Programme | Scheduled Slot | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Tyne Tees & Border News | Saturdays - Late Afternoon | Various |
| Tyne Tees & Border News | Sundays - Early Evening | Various |
From 25 February 2009 - news for the Border region incorporates a 15/18 minute opt-out within the main 6pm programme, a fully separate late night bulletin and localised weather forecasts throughout the day. Depending on the day's news, either one of the Border or Tyne Tees news opt-outs are pre-recorded. Other bulletins are pan-regional covering news stories from the Tyne Tees and Border regions, titled Tyne Tees & Border News.[6]
On 13 January 2009 it was announced long serving presenters Tim Backshall and Fiona Armstrong plus recent additions Helen Pearson and John Bevir would be retained.[7] Backshall and Armstrong were redeployed as a news correspondent and features correspondent respectively, Bevir remaining as a news correspondent, with Pearson moving to the ITV Tyne Tees newsroom as the presenter of pan-regional bulletins during GMTV, (however she now works as a news correspondent, relief presenter and weather presenter).
As part of the merger, six district reporters were appointed - woking from home unless based in Edinburgh or Carlisle. The district reporters announced were Hannah Lomas in Carlisle, Lee Madan in Selkirk, Stuart Pollitt in Whitehaven, Victoria Hoe in Kendal, Olivia Richwald in Dumfries and Kathryn Samson in Edinburgh.[8]
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