ITV News ''Calendar'' is a British television news service broadcast and produced by

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Overview

The news service transmits to

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, northwestern

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and parts of

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and

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areas of England. It is produced and broadcast from ITV Yorkshire's

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with district reporters and camera crews based at newsrooms in Hull,

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and

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History

1968 to January 2007

''Calendar'' first aired on the launch day of Yorkshire Television – Monday 29 July 1968. Since its launch, the programme has been produced at ITV Yorkshire's main studios in Kirkstall Road,

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. ''Calendar''s first presenter was

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. In later years, it was hosted by

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(until 1995, alongside his duties on ''Countdown'', earning him the nickname "Twice Nightly Whiteley"),

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(until he became a

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in 1977), Marylyn Webb,

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and Mike Morris. Upon gaining the Belmont transmitter in 1974 from

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, which served south Lincolnshire and north Norfolk, the programme developed a regional opt-out service for the area within the main programme. At the same time, Yorkshire Television inherited the Anglia news offices in

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and Hull and opened a further newsroom in

. For several years until the early 1980s, viewers served by the Belmont transmitter also received a localised weather forecast produced by the weather department at Anglia. On 28 March 1977, Yorkshire Television launched a six-week

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experiment. ''Good Morning Calendar'' (a name later reused for its regional news programme in ''Good Morning Britain'') is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of the BBC's ''Breakfast Time''. The programme ran concurrently with a similar Tyne Tees programme, ''Good Morning North'' for North East viewers. Both series ended after nine weeks on 27 May 1977. During the 1970s and early 1980s, ''Calendar''s output consisted of a main evening programme alongside lunchtime and late night bulletins on weekdays; weekend bulletins were not introduced until June 1988. When

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programming was moved to

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in 1987 and daytime programming introduced to ITV, national ITN and regional bulletins were introduced at 9:25am and 11am, along with a mid-afternoon bulletin. In the latter part of the 1980s, ''Calendar'' expanded its lunchtime bulletin into a half-hour magazine show, ''Calendar Lunchtime Live''. The programme was scrapped in early 1988 but reintroduced for a short period during 2001. For over twenty years from June 1990, ''Calendar'' was produced and broadcast from a dedicated news centre and studio facility based in a converted roller rink opposite the main complex on Kirkstall Road. On Monday 24 September 1990, a third sub-regional opt-out for south Yorkshire and north Derbyshire was introduced – "South" from Sheffield initially aired at lunchtime and within the main 6pm programme, while "East" (Hull) aired in east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north Norfolk, and ''Calendar News'' was broadcast to the rest of the region (west and north Yorkshire). The separate East and South services continued until December 2006. The newsgathering and production teams at ''Calendar'' were the subject of a 1995

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documentary series, ''

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''.

January 2007 to February 2009

On Monday, 8 January 2007, ''Calendar''s main 6pm programme was split into North and South editions for the region. All other bulletins (weekday and weekend lunchtime, weekday late, and weekend early evening) were pan-regional. The previous "East" and "South" regions were merged to form a larger "South" area. "North" (north, west, and south west Yorkshire; north Derbyshire)
"South" (central and east Lincolnshire; east and south-east Yorkshire; east Nottinghamshire; north Norfolk). The regular presenters of the North edition were Duncan Wood and

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; two other long-standing ''Calendar'' presenters, John Shires and Gaynor Barnes, became the main regular presenters of the South edition. Both editions of the programme were broadcast from ITV Yorkshire's Leeds studios.

February 2009 to September 2013

Cutbacks in ITV regional news coverage in early 2009 meant that its seventeen regions would be cut down to nine to "save costs", and regional news programmes would become pan-regional. The final sub-regional editions of ''Calendar'' aired on Wednesday 18 February 2009, with a new pan-regional programme launching the next day. Short opt-outs are retained for the North and South sub-regions within the 6pm programme and after ''News at Ten'' – either the North or South opt is pre-recorded depending on the day's news.Meet the team , ''Calendar''
– ''

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'' at

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The then remaining sub-regional elements were: *A 6-minute opt-out during the main 6pm programme. *The full 8-minute late night bulletin, following ''

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''. Both sub-regional editions utilise exactly the same presenters and studio/set, therefore one of the two opt-outs – depending on the day's news – is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast. Following a refit of the main Kirkstall Road studios to accommodate HD production of ''Emmerdale'', the news centre opposite the building was closed and production of ''Calendar'' moved back into the main facility in October 2012.

September 2013 to present

The separate late night bulletins are also retained and localised weather forecasts were introduced. The expanded sub-regional service launched on Monday 16 September 2013. Calendar began broadcasting in high definition on Sunday 31 March 2016.

Notable current on air staff

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Notable former on air staff

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(

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) *

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(''

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'') * Gaynor Barnes *

Nina Hossain Nina Hossain is a British journalist and presenter employed by ITN as the lead presenter of the ''ITV Lunchtime News''. Background Hossain was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. Her fa ...

(''

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'') * Debbie Lindley *

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('' GMB'') *

(deceased) * Jon Mitchell * Mike Morris (deceased) * Karen Petch (deceased) *

Rachel Townsend Rachel Townsend (''née'' Phillips) is a journalist, news reporter and relief presenter for ITV news programme Granada Reports. Up until mid-2008 she worked as a reporter and presenter for ITV news programme Calendar but due to ITV regional ne ...

(

) *

Kate Walby Kate Walby (née Webster) is a broadcast journalist, and was a presenter for ITV Yorkshire's ''Calendar'', but is currently a reporter for Lookaround. Based in Leeds, but originally from the Isle of Man, Walby was previously a reporter and pre ...

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'') *

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(deceased) *Duncan Wood

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