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The channel is presented from the so-called 'theatre of news' set, which is a vast virtual studio. The studio allows presentation from either behind a desk or from presenters walking around the studio, using the newswall to fully explain a story with the use of graphics.
News content and programming for the channel is provided by ITN under a contract which runs until 2009, when ITN's current contract to provide news bulletins for ITV1 also expires.
The channel launched on 1 August 2000 as a joint venture between ITN and NTL as the "ITN News Channel". In June 2002, Carlton Television and Granada Television - the predecessors of ITV plc - bought out ITN's 65 per cent stake. This led to a rebrand as the ITV News Channel in September 2002. In April 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, the newly created ITV plcITV plc is the company formed from the merger of Carlton Communications and Granada plc, which began trading on 2 February 2004. ITV plc currently owns the following ITV franchises in the UK: Former Granada-owned franchises: Anglia Television: East of Eng bought NTL's 35 per cent stake to assume full control of the channel.
Presenters include the well-known British newscaster , Angela RipponAngela Rippon (born October 12, 1944) is a well-known British television journalist. She was the first female newsreader on prime-time television news, including the BBC's Nine O'clock News''. She appeared briefly on TV-am following its launch in 1983. and ITN veteran Alastair Stewart . It also feature faces such as Nicholas Owen, Andrew Harvey, Mary Nightingale, Andrea Catherwood and James Mates. Presenters from ITV's regional news programmes regularly appear on the channel at weekends and holiday periods.
Its main competitors are Sky NewsSky News is Britain's first 24-hour television news channel, originally launched as part of the 4-channel Sky Television satellite package in February 1989. The channel originally operated on a shoestring but quickly gained a reputation for journalistic i and BBC News 24BBC News 24 is the BBC's 24-hour news television channel in the UK, its international counterpart being BBC World. It first broadcast on November 9 1997 at 17:30 and at first only cable television subscribers could view it. In 1999, with the advent of dig.
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