ITV News
During Summer 2007, ITN and ITV Mobile teamed up to launch NewsFix, short news updates sent directly to mobile phones. NewsFix bulletins are send twice per day. The service previously charged users £2, but has been free since October 2007. Users can unsubscribe at any time.[5]
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Controversy
In April 2007 ITN announced that ITV had awarded it a 6-year contract to produce ITV News, at a cost of £250 million.[6] However, ITN announced that the new budget meant it would have to cut staff despite already operating on a smaller budget that its two main rivals BBC News and Sky News.[7]
ITV's news budget is dwarfed by that of the publicly-funded BBC, which spends £89.5 million annually on newsgathering, plus a further £23.1 million on its rolling news channel BBC News.[8]
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Awards
ITV News has won many key industry awards for its news coverage during the past fifty years. It picked up Royal Television Society (RTS) and Broadcast awards for coverage of the Beslan school siege, and Alastair Stewart won the RTS Presenter of the Year award in 2006.
Legendary editor Geoffrey Cox was the recipient of ITN's very first award - a BAFTA in 1962. Since then BAFTA has gone on to present ITN with a total of 26 awards, for coverage on ITV ranging from Francis Chichester's home-coming in 1967 to the Northern Ireland troubles, the Iranian Embassy siege, wars in the Falklands, Lebanon and the Gulf, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the discovery of the Serb camps, the genocide in Rwanda, the storming of the Moscow White House, and the conflict in former Yugoslavia.
There have been over 70 RTS awards for both domestic and international coverage, with the first coming for the 1969 Apollo moon landing. Home based issues including the miners' strike, the Iranian embassy siege, the Tottenham riots, the Kings Cross fire, the death of Labour leader John Smith and coverage of Dunblane have all been voted the Best Journalism of the Year by the RTS. RTS awards for foreign coverage range from conflicts in Vietnam, Eritrea, Poland, El Salvador, Beirut, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, Russia, Chechnya, Bosnia, Israel and Albania as well as humanitarian disasters including Romania, the Mozambique floods and the Asian tsunami.
From the United States there has been recognition of ITN's journalism, from the prestigious Emmy awards, the New York Television Programming Festival and the White House News Photographers' Association. ITN was the first non-US news broadcaster to win a News and Documentary Emmy when it was awarded top prize for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for the 1992 discovery of the Serb camps. The famous footage of emaciated men behind barbed wire went round the world and helped change the course of the conflict in Bosnia. Coverage on News at Ten of the Mozambique floods in 2000 also won an Emmy award.
In addition to many BAFTA, Emmy and RTS awards, ITN/ITV News has also claimed awards from the Monte Carlo Gold Nymphs, prizes from the News Festival of Angers in France, the Television and Radio Industries Club, the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards and the Broadcasting Press Guild as well as many others.[9]
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Head anchors
Alastair Burnet held the position of Head anchor from 1967 until his retirement in 1991 (Burnet had left ITN for a two-year period in the 1970s, during which time the head anchor was Reginald Bosanquet). With Burnet's 1991 departure and subsequent relaunch of News at Ten, Trevor McDonald became the next ITN head anchor. McDonald held the position until his December 2005 retirement from ITV News, and was succeeded by Mark Austin. McDonald reclaimed the position of ITV News' head anchor when he returned to ITN to front the relaunched News at Ten, in January 2008.
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References
- ^ "ITN and Finally", TV World. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITN to cut staff as part of £250m ITV news deal", Dan Sabbagh, The Times, 7 April 2006. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITV news to ditch the gimmicks", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
- ^ "ITV News goes widescreen in December", James Welsh, Digital Spy, 2 November 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.
- ^ "NewsFix", itv.com, 29 May 2007. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITV and ITN sign new six-year contract for ITV news worth over 250 mln stg", ABC Money, 2 April 2007. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITN to cut staff as part of £250m ITV news deal", Dan Sabbagh, The Times, 3 April 2007. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITN to cut staff as part of £250m ITV news deal", Dan Sabbagh, The Times, 3 April 2007. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ "ITN Awards", ITN, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
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