ITV News

ITV News
Company typeTelevision news
GenreNational and international news
Founded22 September 1955 (1955-09-22) (as ITN)
FounderIndependent Television Authority
Headquarters
London
,
England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Michael Jermey
    (ITV Director of News & Current Affairs)
  • Guy Phillips
    (Editor, ITV News regions)
  • Rachel Corp[1]
    (Editor)
ParentITN, ITV plc
DivisionsITV Regional News
Websiteitv.com/news

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV. The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the ITV Evening News held the title of "RTS News Programme of the Year". The flagship ITV News at Ten has won numerous BAFTA awards, and also being named "RTS News Programme of the Year" in 2011, 2015, 2021 and 2022.

ITV News has the second-largest television news audience in the United Kingdom, second only to BBC News (and followed by other broadcasters such as Sky News, Channel 4 News and Channel 5 News). Initially, all national news programmes on ITV carried ITN's own brand. As the ITV network consolidated from the mid 1990s onwards, ITN branding of news programmes was eventually dropped on 8 March 1999 following the introduction of the ITV News brand. ITN remains the producer of all the national ITV News programmes.

  1. ^ "Geoff Hill appointed as Editor of ITV Network News". ITN. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.