''ITV News London'' is a British television news service broadcast on both

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and the

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. It is produced by ITN.

History

London News Network

The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993 as ''London Tonight'', after Carlton Television won the London weekday franchise from previous holder

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. ''London Tonight'' was originally produced by

London News Network London News Network (or LNN) was a television news, production and facilities organisation in London. It was created in 1992 as a joint operation between London's two ITV contractors, Carlton Television and London Weekend Television, with each ...

– a joint venture between

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and

LWT London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 un ...

designed to provide a sole ITV regional news service for the London area, broadcasting seven days a week. Its creation established a continuity between the once separate services and presentation of the weekend and weekday news, weather and sport in the region, previously provided by ''

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'' and ''

LWT News ''LWT News'' was a regional news service provided by London Weekend Television, serving the Greater London area in various formats between January 1982 and 3 January 1993. History On Friday 1 January 1982, LWT began extending its broadcasting ...

''. The flagship programme, initially an hour-long and presented by

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and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter ''London Today'' bulletins, launched on 4 January 1993 (LWT discontinued its own

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the previous weekend). The main evening programme was reduced to 30 minutes a year later, while from 25 November 1996 to September 2002, a half-hour lunchtime edition of ''London Today'' was broadcast on weekdays. In addition to regional news,

also produced a wide range of regional programming for both Carlton and LWT as well as providing transmission services for both stations.

ITN

In 2004, ITV London owners Carlton and

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merged, forming

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with LNN being dissolved soon after. Production for all ''ITV London News'' programming remained at

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(formerly known as the LWT South Bank Centre) until 29 February 2004, when it was taken over by the national Channel 3 news provider ITN and moved to their headquarters in Central London, making the region the only operation not to produce its own news programmes in-house. Around 40 jobs were lost with the closure of LNN, although the programme retained its own editorial team. ''London Tonight'' was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in February 2009. On 4 July 2012,

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editor Deborah Turness informed ''London Tonight'' employees a third of staff would be made redundant, with ITV News and ''London Tonight'' both sharing newsgathering and studios from 1 October 2012. On Monday 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ''ITV News London''. Former notable lead presenters include

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, Fiona Foster,

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and

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Notable on air staff

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: Newsreader (2005–) *

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: Newsreader (2014–) * Duncan Golestani: Presenter/newsreader (2019-) *

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: Presenter/newsreader (2013–); Entertainment Correspondent (2010–2012) *

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: Occasional presenter (2017–) * Suzanne Virdee: Relief newsreader (2016–) *

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