Calendar (News)
| Calendar | |
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| Genre | News and Current Affairs |
| Presented by |
Christine Talbot Duncan Wood Gaynor Barnes John Shires Jon Mitchell |
| Country of origin | England, United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Margaret Emsley (Head of News) |
| Location(s) | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 18:00 show) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Yorkshire |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, ITV HD |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV 16:9) |
| Original release | 29 July 1968 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Calendar (branded on-screen as ITV News Calendar) is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Yorkshire and serving Lincolnshire, most of Yorkshire and parts of Lancashire, the North Midlands and north western Norfolk areas of England.
The programme is produced and broadcast from ITV Yorkshire's Leeds studios with district reporters and camera crews based at newsrooms in Hull, Lincoln and Sheffield.
Calendar first aired on the launch day of Yorkshire Television - Monday 29 July 1968. Since its launch, the programme has been produced at ITV Yorkshire's main studios in Kirkstall Road, Leeds. Calendar's first presenter was Jonathan Aitken. In later years, it was hosted by Richard Whiteley (until 1995, alongside his duties on Countdown, earning him the nickname "Twice Nightly Whiteley"), Austin Mitchell (until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977), Marylyn Webb,Christa Ackroyd and Mike Morris.
Upon gaining the Belmont transmitter in 1974 from Anglia Television, which served south Lincolnshire and north Norfolk, the programme developed a regional opt-out service for the area within the main programme. At the same time, Yorkshire Television inherited the Anglia news offices in Grimsby and Hull and opened a further newsroom in Lincoln. For several years until the early 1980s, viewers served by the Belmont transmitter also received a localised weather forecast produced by the weather department at Anglia.
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