ITV News Granada Reports

Granada Reports
Also known as Good Morning Granada during ITV Breakfast
Presented by Lucy Meacock
Tony Morris
Country of origin England, United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Lucy West (Head of News)
Location(s) MediaCityUK,
Salford Quays,
Greater Manchester, England
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 30 minutes
(main 6pm show)
Production company(s) ITV Granada
Broadcast
Original channel ITV Granada
Picture format 1080i (HDTV 16:9)
Original run 1956 – present
Chronology
Related shows ITV News,
BBC North West Tonight
External links
Website

Granada Reports is a regional news programme for North West England and the Isle of Man, produced by ITV Granada.

Overview

Granada Reports is produced and broadcast from studios in the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, with the first bulletin being broadcast from the new facilities on 24 March 2013.[1] Before this, the news service was based at Granada's studios in Quay Street, Manchester. Reporters are also based at newsrooms in the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, Lancaster and on the Isle of Man. News staff were also based at offices in Blackburn and Chester until they were closed in 2005.

Prior to its launch in 1973, the nightly news programme had been known under several titles such as Northern Newscast, Scene at Six Thirty and People and Places. Between 2 January 1990 and 28 September 2001, the main evening programme was known as Granada Tonight (which utilized a variation of American company Hearst Television's standardized graphics from October 1998 up until September 2001). Shorter bulletins aired as Granada News. Most bulletins now air under the joint branding of ITV News and Granada Reports with breakfast bulletins entitled Good Morning Granada.

The programme was unaffected with cutbacks to ITV regional news in early 2009.[2] The only major change saw ITV Granada take over coverage of the Isle of Man from ITV Tyne Tees & Border on 16 July 2009.

On 27 September 2012, it was announced technical staff had been invited to volunteer for redundancy as part of national job losses affecting ITV News services. The timing coincided with production moving from Granada Studios to MediaCityUK.[3] In January 2013, a second announcement regarding further redundancies of editorial staff was made.

Lucy Meacock and Tony Morris are main anchors of the programme since 1988 and 2003 respectively.[4]

Broadcast times

Granada Reports airs on ITV Granada seven days a week. On weekdays, a four-minute lunchtime bulletin airs at 1.55pm, followed by the main half-hour programme at 6pm and an eight-minute late bulletin at 10.30pm following ITV News at Ten. At weekends, two 5 or 10-minute editions of Granada Reports are broadcast – one later on Saturday afternoons and another on Sunday evenings.

On weekday mornings, Good Morning Granada airs short bulletins within Good Morning Britain at approximately 6.05am, 7.05am and 8.05am.

Granada Reports previous title card

Awards

References

  1. ↑ ITV News Granada Reports to start broadcasting from MediaCityUK Prolific North, 18 March 2013
  2. ↑ Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (17 February 2009). "Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Redundancies at Granada Reports Manchester Evening News, 27 September 2012
  4. ↑ Granada Reports moves to new home at MediaCityUK ITV News, 25 March 2013

External links

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