ITV News'' Wales at Six'' is the evening news programme broadcast and produced by

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Overview

''Wales at Six'' and all other ITV Wales news programming is broadcast live from studios at Assembly Square in

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, with a North Wales newsroom based in

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, and a political unit at the National Assembly of Wales in

. District reporters are also based in West Wales,

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and

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. Jonathan Hill was promoted from news reporter and newsreader to a main anchor for the main evening news programme during February 1994.

Andrea Byrne Andrea Byrne (née Benfield; born 1978) is an English journalist and presenter, currently working for ITV Cymru Wales, where she presents ''Wales at Six'' and ''Wales This Week''. Personal life Born in Guildford, Surrey, Byrne graduated from Sou ...

was appointed co-anchor on 14 January 2008 following the departure of

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to rival programme ''

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''. Hill and Byrne anchor alternating editions of the main 6pm programme as of June 2014.

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took over from Byrne on 4 February 2019 for one-year. Ruth Dodsworth fronts national weather forecasts for ITV Cymru Wales since 2000.

History

From the launch of Harlech Television in May 1968, the company produced a full-scale bilingual news service - the only of its kind in the

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. The 6pm weekday slot for regional news was shared by two programmes - ''Y Dydd'' (''The Day'') in the Welsh language and ''Report Wales'' in English. The launch of

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in November 1982 signalled the end of Welsh language news from HTV, although the company continues to produce Welsh current affairs programmes, including the long-running ''

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'' (''The World on Four''). ''Wales at Six'' replaced ''Report Wales'' as a full-length English language news programme on Monday 1 November 1982. HTV's news service was based at its Pontcanna studios until moving to the Television Centre at

Culverhouse Cross Culverhouse Cross ( cy, Croes Cwrlwys) is a district straddling the boundary between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, in the community of Wenvoe. The district is centred on a major traffic roundabout that links West Cardiff to the M4 mo ...

in 1990. ''Wales at Six'' was latterly replaced by ''Wales Tonight'' in 1994 and 2005, ''HTV News'' in 1999, ''ITV Wales News'' in 2004 and ''ITV News Cymru Wales'' in 2013.ITV launches rebrand on air and online
itv.com, 14 January 2013 On 17 September 2013, ITV Wales announced it would launch a weekly 30-minute current affairs programme, ''Newsweek Wales'', featuring interviews, analysis and a look back at the week's main news stories in Wales.ITV launches new programme Newsweek Wales
itv.com, 17 September 2013 The new programme, broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes, was launched on Sunday 22 September 2013. A previous plan to extend the weekday late bulletin to 15 minutes was scrapped. On Saturday 28 June 2014, ITV Cymru Wales broadcast from its Culverhouse Cross studios for the last time. Two days later, broadcasting began from its new base at

. As part of the move, ''Wales at Six'' was revived as the title for the main 6pm programme on weekdays, after an absence of 20 years.

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