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''ITV Nightscreen'' was a scheduled programme on the
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television network, consisting of a sequence of animated pages of information about ITV's upcoming programmes, features and special events, with
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music in the background. The programme was used to fill the station's overnight downtime, where a closedown would have once been used at the end of programmes. The programme was generally shown 7 days a week with the typical weekday show airing from 4:05am – 5:05am daily. However, on ITV's digital channels, the amount of Teleshopping affects how much ''Nightscreen'' is broadcast. The programme was also broadcast on all of ITV's +1 channels. At Christmas and weekends, an additional 55 minutes was broadcast from 5:05am – 6am as no other programmes were shown. Very occasionally was is not broadcast due to live events and other programming filling its hour. It was first broadcast on 14 January 1998, and consisted of
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pages taken from the ITV regional teletext services, with interstitial teletext-based animations in a similar style to the former '' 4-Tel On View''. Since 2003 the screens have been produced using Scala InfoChannel3. In early 2009, updated systems were installed with the latest version of Scala5, with a dual redundant system to counter any issues of service. In April 2012, the system was upgraded again to a newer version of Scala5. This, amongst other minor presentational changes, allowed compatibility of the service to be transmitted in 16:9 widescreen for the first time, as opposed to 4:3. As well as providing focus on upcoming programmes, films and TV listings, it also used to offers some news from the world of entertainment. In the past it also offered sports news and even on some occasions cooking tips, recipes and also fact files of characters from famous ITV shows such as ''
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''. The Scala system was provided by Beaver Group, and the programme was produced by Gower Creative Communications with soundtracks provided by
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and BMG Production Music. In October 2021, the programme was replaced by '' Unwind with ITV'' (branded as ''Unwind with STV'' on STV in Central Scotland and North of Scotland).


Origins

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screens had been employed by the
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since 1980 and by
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since 1983 to fill airtime cheaply. In-vision teletext was only ever occasionally used on the ITV network. From April 1986 certain
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, firstly
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, followed in January 1987 by
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, started showing overnight
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sequences containing details of local job vacancies under the title '' Jobfinder''. Initially the pages were broadcast for an hour after the end of regular programming but from April 1987 Central broadcast ''Jobfinder'' throughout their overnight downtime. When 24-hour television began in 1988, the majority of ITV regions broadcast a ''Jobfinder'' programme in the hour preceding the '' ITV Morning News''. Also, for a short while in 1987, an
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-provided service preceding
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broadcasts, known as ''Daybreak'', was broadcast before the start of TV-am's programming. ''ITV Nightscreens origins can also be found in a programme simply titled ''Freescreen'', which was made and screened by
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in its early years. The Meridian version mixed the teletext pages with local news stories and short videos made and sent in by viewers.


Broadcasts

''ITV Nightscreen'' was broadcast on
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, STV and UTV starting from when the last programme finishes and ending at 5:05am most weekdays and at 6am at weekends and holidays. ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 & ITVBe also broadcast ''Nightscreen''. Availability depended on how much unused time was left, and could sometimes last for as little as five minutes as teleshopping is shown on these channels. There was a different music tracklist for each channel, however, upcoming programmes on only the ITV network were shown.
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did not use the service since the channel closes down at 9pm. Although not an ITV-branded channel, ITV's defunct
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channel would in its later years carry the filler from the close of programming until 6am. In its early years, ''Nightscreen'' would often begin at around 4am and finish before the '' ITV News at 5:30''. The length of the programme varied depending on the overnight schedules. Some ITV regions didn't broadcast ''Nightscreen'' initially, including STV, who opted to continue with their own service entitled ''Scottish Night Time'', Meridian, who opted to continue with their own ''Freescreen'' service, and Central, who opted to broadcast their own local programming within that slot. In the Yorkshire and Tyne Tees regions, ''Nightscreen'' ended at 5am to allow both networks to opt-out for their regional ''Jobfinder'' programme. In February 1999, STV started carrying Nightscreen as a programming filler during its overnight programming strand 'Night Time TV' (run by SMG and jointly aired between the Scottish and Grampian regions at the time), whilst sister station
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had already carried Nightscreen as a filler in their programming schedules by this time too. In December 2005, three months before the now defunct
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began transmitting, a quiz show entitled ''
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'' began broadcasting in the early hours on ITV. Subsequent programmes that followed were '' The Mint'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. This resulted in ''Nightscreen'' being pushed back to just a half-hour service between 5am and 5:30am In 2008, largely as a result of widespread scandal surrounding phone-ins, ITV Play was permanently axed, meaning that ''Nightscreen'' began broadcasting from around 4:30am.
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previously ran its own version of the service entitled ''Channel Nightscreen'' consisting of local news headlines and programming information. ''Channel Nightscreen'' was axed towards the end of 2011 shortly after ITV plc brought Channel Television. In 2010, ITV started airing '' The Zone'' for 2 hours, a gaming and shopping programme block, usually airing from 12:30am to 2:30am, leaving ''Nightscreen'' often cut back to as little as an hour and sometimes removed from ITV's schedule altogether. In April 2010, STV launched its own Scottish night-time service, '' The Nightshift'', broadcast in the
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region and consisting of programming highlights, news, competitions and viewers texts & emails read out by a live out-of-vision presenter. STV North continued to broadcast ''ITV Nightscreen'' until July 2010, when ''The Nightshift'' was extended to the North region. The programme included regional news opt-outs for the four STV sub-regions: Aberdeen & the North, Dundee & Tayside, Edinburgh & the East and Glasgow & the West. STV dropped ''The Nightshift'' from its schedules in June 2015, meaning ''Nightscreen'' was extended on the station. From 1 August 2019, home shopping channel
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began simulcasting during part of the overnight period on ITV. Consequently, the two bursts of ''Nightscreen'' on UTV and Channel have now ceased as these regions now follow network scheduling due to there being no restrictions about them showing Ideal World, unlike the previous gaming programmes. STV began simulcasting Ideal World from September 2021, meaning ''Nightscreen'' was only shown once per night on the channel, instead of twice. From January 2021, ITV started airing ''FYI Extra'' at 3am for 15 minutes daily. This meant that ''Nightscreen'' was reduced from 75 minutes to 60 minutes. On 10 April 2021, due to the death of Prince Philip, ''Nightscreen'' was broadcast continually from 12:15am to 6am without a break, in all ITV regions. On 1 October 2021, the final episode of ''Nightscreen'' aired and was replaced by '' Unwind with ITV'' the following day. The final episode was no different to any other ordinary broadcast, and did not feature a goodbye message like other services did.


Closure

On 2 October 2021, ''Nightscreen'' was replaced by ''Unwind with ITV'' (''Unwind with STV'' on STV in Central Scotland and North of Scotland). This features time-lapse footage of various peaceful environments with ambient, relaxing music in the background, also provided by BMG Production Music. Its introduction was, partially, a part of ITV's ''Britain Get Talking'' campaign, and is produced by Rock Oyster Media. Ofcom's 2019 ''Review of Regional TV Production and Programming Guidance'' stated that these promotional text-based shows could no longer be part of ITV's regional production quotas anymore (from 2021) and so ITV had to replace the ''Nightscreen'' slots with a new type of programme. This also meant that the contract between ITV plc and Gower Creative Communications regarding production of ITV Nightscreen was definitely terminated, and Scala servers on which ''Nightscreen'' ran were shut down permanently. The final episode of ''Nightscreen'' aired on 1 October 2021.


Other similar services


RTÉ Aertel

A similar filler to ''ITV Nightscreen'' was also provided by
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, who currently uses this to fill airtime cheaply on
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. It is very similar in fashion to ''Nightscreen'' as it provides rolling teletext pages while RTÉ Two is not broadcasting. It has been criticised by many FAI League of Ireland fans who have dubbed the service "Errortel" due to the constant inaccuracies, delays & incorrect information with live scoring and reporting of games.


''Pages from Ceefax''

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late at night, most commonly at the weekend but occasionally during the week. The final broadcast was in the early hours of Monday 22 October 2012, two days before Ceefax was switched off when digital switchover was completed. Broadcasts on
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had ceased in November 1997 when
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was launched as BBC One carries BBC News overnight although occasional Ceefax broadcasts were seen on
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.


''4-Tel On View''

Originally broadcast on weekdays, it alternated with showings of the IBA
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testcard and ''Oracle On View''. From 1983 until the start of Channel 4's breakfast television service in April 1989, the 4-Tel magazine ran for 15 minutes and was repeated several times each day with transmissions airing at increasingly earlier times of the day as Channel 4 expanded its broadcast hours. In April 1989 Channel 4 began broadcasting programming at breakfast and ''4-Tel On View'' was reduced to a 40-minute slot between 05:20 and 06:00, although from 1993 4-Tel was broadcast throughout Channel 4's closedown period. It ended in January 1997 when Channel 4 began broadcasting a 24-hour television service.


''Oracle on View''

Was aired from 1983 until 1989 on Channel 4. The fifteen-minute bursts were originally broadcast at :30 to :45 minutes past the hour but changed to :15 to :30 minutes past in October 1984. Initially the pages were used to showcase various aspects of the Oracle service, alternating subject matter every so often, but from September 1987 Oracle On View featured a newsreel and a weather forecast. ''Oracle On View'' ended when Channel 4 launched breakfast programming.


S4C Closedown Screen

A programme which ran for 10 minutes after closedown and for 10 minutes before startup. It was phased out in the late 2000s.


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