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ITN - Independent Television News
ITN was formed in 1955 to provide regular news bulletins to the newly formed ITV stations.
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ITN Late Night News Before ITN became famous for News at Ten and the "bongs" of the headlines, their main news programme wandered around the evening and there was a short bulletin called the "Late Night News" at around 22:40. |
| ITN News The funny item in the background of this 1967 off-screen photograph is part of a lunar landing module shown as a report in to the testing of docking procedures. |
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ITN A simple ITN logo, we are unsure when this was used although it is clearly of the same vintage as above. |
| ITN News 2 At some point ITN changed their graphics. The logo stays the same but a new sans-serif font is introduced for the "News". In this example something obscured the screen when this was photographed. |
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ITN Production An ITN end slide from the same era as above. "ITN" is supposed to be in a circle, we don't know whether this distortion was as broadcast, or whether the TV receiver or camera were to blame. |
| ITN Peter Sissons A sixties appearance behind the desk for Peter Sissons, who is now a BBC Newsreader. Interesting how the BBC tended to use the term "Newsreader" with ITN using the term "Newscaster". |
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ITN News Special An ITN "News Special". Anyone any ideas what this might have introduced? Presumably one of the many important events of the sixties. |
| ITN Newsflash 1 Today, most news is stage managed and planned weeks in advance, but in the early days, television had a lot to prove by being more up to date than the newspapers. Hence the "Newsflash" was a much more frequent visitor to the screen, and there were many specially prepared slides ready to introduce them. |
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ITN Newsflash 2 Another newsflash from ITN, in the style "ITN News 2" above. These photographs come from the days before video tape and PC capture cards. Someone had a camera set up and pointing at the screen in the hope of a Newsflash appearing. They had to be quick to get the photo taken before the newsreader appeared on screen. |
| ITN "Flash Gordon" Newsflash. A very stylish graphic urging immediate attention from the viewer. We appear to be missing records of when these were taken, can anyone help identify the dates? |
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ITN Newsflash 3 A change of layout for this ITN Newsflash graphic that has been enhanced from an off-screen photograph. |
| ITN Newsflash 4 And finally, another varaint on a Newsflash theme. These are not in chronological order, so it shouldn;t be assumed that there was any theme in the way the graphics developed. |
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ITN Early Bird The first transatlantic satellite transmission? |
| ITN News (Black and White Background) A very unusual graphic, which appears to be totally out of style compared to the others in this selection. Does anyone know what this was used for? |
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ITN News at Ten Credits This is more familiar for todays audience, ITN were using similar end credits in the eighties, although they were in colour by then. |
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Last Update 29 Mar 2000