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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Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, northwestern

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and parts of

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

and

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

areas of England. It is produced and broadcast from ITV Yorkshire's Leeds studios with district reporters and camera crews based at newsrooms in Hull, Lincoln,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

and

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. The programme currently transmits into two sub regions. * Calendar West serving

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England.The Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas of City of York, York and North Yorkshire (district), North Yorkshire are in Yorkshire and t ...

and parts of

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, Lincolnshire ...

and

. * Calendar East serving East Yorkshire,

and parts of

and

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viewers in

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

, Ashfield, Newark and Bolsover receive ''Calendar East'' on channel 103 as default via those areas postcode. In some (but not all) areas of

viewers have their aerials point to

Bilsdale Bilsdale is a Dale (landform), dale in the western part of the North York Moors in North Yorkshire, England. The head of the dale is at Hasty Bank, and the dale extends south to meet Rye Dale near Hawnby. The dale is the valley of the River ...

TV transmitter that broadcasts '' ITV News Tyne Tees'' from

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, however most viewers in the county point their aerial to the

Emley Moor The Emley Moor transmitting station is a telecommunications and broadcasting facility on Emley Moor, west of the village centre of Emley, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is made up of a concrete tower and apparatus that began ...

Oliver's Mount Oliver's Mount is an area of high ground overlooking Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It offers views over the town, a tribute monument to the war dead, camping and caravanning at selected times of the year, 10 football pitches, 1 rugby l ...

Transmitter to watch ''ITV News Calendar''. Viewers in

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and some in

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receive ''ITV News Calendar'' from the relay transmitter at

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,

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

. ''Calendar''s first presenter was

Jonathan Aitken Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning his career in journalism, he was elected to Parliament in 1974 (serving until 1997), and wa ...

. In later years, it was hosted by

Richard Whiteley John Richard Whiteley (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English presenter and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show '' Countdown''. ''Countdown'' was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45 ...

(until 1995, alongside his duties on ''Countdown'', earning him the nickname "Twice Nightly Whiteley"), Austin Mitchell (until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977), Marylyn Webb, Christa Ackroyd 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 Lincoln. 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

breakfast television Breakfast television (Europe and Australia) or morning show (Canada and the United States) is a type of news broadcasting, news or infotainment television programme that broadcasts Live television, live in the morning (typically broadcast pro ...

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 ITV Schools 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 11:25am, 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 fly-on-the-wall

documentary series, '' Deadline''.

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 Christine Talbot; 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 '' ITV News at Ten''. 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 Thursday 31 March 2016.

Notable current on air staff

* Kerrie Gosney * Tori Lacey

Notable former on air staff

* Christa Ackroyd *

* Zeinab Badawi (

BBC World News BBC News is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, an ...

) * Faye Barker (''

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'') *

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 f ...

('' ITV Lunchtime News'') * Debbie Lindley * Richard Madeley ('' GMB'') * Austin Mitchell (deceased) * Jon Mitchell * Mike Morris (deceased) * Karen Petch (deceased) * Christine Talbot * Rachel Townsend (

) *

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

('' Lookaround'') *

Bob Warman Robert Paul Warman (born 11 October 1946) is an English retired television presenter. Early life Warman was born on 11 October 1946 in the Chuckery district of Walsall, Staffordshire.Shropshire Star Weekend supplement article, by Simon Penfold ...

(deceased) *Duncan Wood

References

External links

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