GMTV News (South)

GMTV News was the brand name for the regional news service in the south coast of England and the Thames Valley, from 5 December 2006 until 6 February 2009.

The change in branding was brought about due to the launch of ITV's Thames Valley news region on 4 December 2006, which, although based at Meridian's studios, consisted of the south-east of the Central franchise area as well as the north of the Meridian area.

For this reason it was unlike the GMTV Northern Ireland and GMTV Scotland services, as it was produced by an ITV regional franchise-holder, rather than an independent company.

As GMTV at the time only paid for one regional news service per official franchisee, the regional GMTV News-branded service was a replacement for the Meridian News and Thames Valley Today programmes. In February 2009, the two programmes were merged into one Meridian News/Tonight programme, and the GMTV News brand was dropped.

ITV Local News
ITV News regions
  • Anglia
  • Border (Lookaround)
  • Central
  • Channel Islands
  • Granada Reports
  • London
  • Meridian
  • Tyne Tees
  • Wales
  • West Country
  • Yorkshire (Calendar)
Non ITV-plc regions
  • STV North / STV Central: STV News at Six / Scotland Tonight
  • UTV: UTV Live / UTV Live Tonight
Former programmes
  • ATV: ATV Midlands News, ATV Today
  • Anglia: About Anglia
  • Grampian: North Tonight
  • Scottish: Scotland Today
  • Southern: Day by Day / Scene South East
  • TSW: TSW Today
  • TVS: Coast to Coast
  • Thames: Thames News
  • Thames Valley: Thames Valley Tonight
  • Tyne Tees: Northern Life
  • West: The West Tonight
  • LWT: LWT News
  • Westcountry: Westcountry Live
  • ITV Breakfast: GMTV News (South), Daybreak Northern Ireland, Daybreak Scotland
Related
  • ITV Breakfast
  • ITV News
  • ITV Weather
  • itv.com
  • stv.tv

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