History
The programme began as the ITN Morning News on 15 February 1988 with the advent of 24-hour television on ITV. It originally ran for an hour from 5:00am and was the first pre-subscription television outlet in Britain to broadcast regular segments from CNN. The first thirty minutes included a broadcast of the ITN World News, a bulletin intended for the international audience and composed solely of major world stories, and the second thirty minutes focused on national news stories. The practice of including the ITN World News as part of an "hour-long" ITN Morning News ended by March 1991, and the time slot was amended accordingly to 5:30.
Some EPGs and TV listings referred to the programme as the ITV Early Morning News. In 2 November 2009 the ITV Morning News was renamed as the ITV News at 5:30 to coincide with the re-branding of ITV News output.
On 27 November 2012, it was announced that ITV is to axe the ITV News at 5:30 in favour of delivering content online for itv.com and extra resources to be put into creating a new foreign affairs unit. A total of 15 roles, editorial and technical, are at a risk of redundancy as a result of axing the bulletin. The programme last aired on 21 December 2012. According to the TV guides of the ITV, STV, UTV and Channel Online websites, it says that ITV Nightscreen will fill the gap previously used by ITV Morning News.
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