''ITV News Channel TV'' (referred to as ''ITV News on Channel'' on air) is a television news service for the
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Jersey, Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, ...
broadcast and produced by
ITV Channel Television
ITV Channel Television, previously Channel Television, is a British television station which has served as the ITV contractor for the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey and broadcasts regional programmes for insertion into the ...
.
ITV News has its main Channel Islands newsroom in
Jersey
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
as well as a smaller bureau in
Guernsey
Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...
, both with reporters and camera crews working seven days a week. The station also has freelance video journalists based on the smaller islands of
Alderney
Alderney ( ; ; ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependencies, Crown dependency. It is long and wide.
The island's area is , making it the third-largest isla ...
and
Sark
Sark (Sercquiais: or , ) is an island in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, and part of the archipelago of the Channel Islands. It is a self-governing British Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency, with its own set o ...
.
There are currently six ITV Channel TV news bulletins produced on weekdays: three during ''
Good Morning Britain'' (branded as ''Good Morning Channel'' on air), an update after the ''
ITV Lunchtime News
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'', the main 6pm programme which precedes the ''
ITV Evening News
The ''ITV Evening News'' is the evening news programme produced by ITN on the British television network ITV. It airs Monday to Friday from 6:30pm usually until 7.30pm (since March 2022) though the finishing time of the bulletin can occasiona ...
'', and a late news bulletin after ''
ITV News at Ten
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''.
There are also two weekend news updates, broadcast early evening on Saturdays and Sundays.
Its main competitor is ''
BBC Channel Islands News''.
Production
Studios
Channel's news programmes are presented from the ITV Channel TV studios at Castle Quay in
St Helier
St Helier (; Jèrriais: ; ) is the Capital city, capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. It is the most populous of the twelve parishes of Jersey, with a population of 35,822, over one-third of the island' ...
, Jersey. There is also a smaller Guernsey studio in
St Sampson which is used for live interviews or pre-recorded segments.
The main ''Channel Report'' studio was previously based at La Pouquelaye in the north of St Helier.
Identity
Although Channel Television remained independently owned until 2011, during the 2000s, ''Channel Report'' adopted a localised version of the titles, graphics and music used by
ITV plc
ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV (TV network), ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom.
ITV plc ...
-produced regional news programmes.
When the ''Channel Report'' name was dropped in January 2013 to bring it in line with the other ITV regional programmes, the historical "Channel TV" name was retained in order to distinguish between the Channel Islands' news service and the 24-hour
ITV News Channel that was previously run by
ITN
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between 2000 and 2005.
Since the rebrand, presenters refer to the programme on air as ''"ITV News on Channel"'' or ''"ITV News in the Channel Islands"''.
Transmission
''ITV News Channel TV'', and all of ITV Channel TV's other local programmes, have been produced in
1080i
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HD since production
moved to Castle Quay in 2015. However, until December 2023 viewers in the region were only able to watch in
576i
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standard definition
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on
Freeview Freeview may refer to:
*Freeview (Australia), the marketing name for the digital terrestrial television platform in Australia
*Freeview (New Zealand), a digital satellite and digital terrestrial television platform in New Zealand
*Freeview (UK), a ...
and
Sky
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.
Channel publishes the
HD version of its nightly news programme on
itv.com
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shortly after broadcast, making it available to watch for 24 hours.
It also occasionally simulcasts the programme online using
Facebook Live
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, as it does with other special regional programmes to avoid disrupting the network ITV schedule.
Notable presenters and reporters
Current
*
Tim Backshall
*
Jess Dunsdon
*
Jonathan Wills
Jonathan Wills is a British journalist currently employed by ITV Channel.
Born in 1964 he has worked for ITN, where he was best known for presenting the sports segment during the now defunct ''ITV News at 10.30''. He also fronted regional progr ...
*
Katie ChiangMeet the Team - Katie Chiang
itv.com
itv.com is the main website of ITV plc, the UK's largest commercial television broadcaster which operates 13 out of 15 regions on the ITV network under the ITV1 brand. The website offers the ITVX streaming service, with sections for ITV News, ...
('' Good Morning Britain'' bulletins)
Former
* Emma Baker (ITV Anglia
ITV Anglia, previously known as Anglia Television, is the ITV franchise holder for the East of England. The station is based at Anglia House in Norwich, with regional news bureaux in Cambridge and Northampton. ITV Anglia is owned and operated b ...
)
*Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American American football, football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL). ...
(deceased)
* Gary Burgess (deceased)
* Murray Dron
* Kristina Moore
References
External links
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