Central Tonight
| ITV News Central | |
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| Presented by |
Sameena Ali-Khan Matt Teale Bob Warman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Liz Hannam (Head of News) |
| Location(s) | Gas Street Studios, Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 18:00 show) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Central |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV and ITV HD |
| Picture format | 16:9, 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 1 January 1982 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | ATV Today, Central News, Central News at Six, Central Tonight |
| External links | |
| Website | |
ITV News Central is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.
Launched on Friday 1 January 1982, replacing ATV Today, Central News was initially a pan-regional service based in Birmingham airing a 6pm programme on weeknights alongside shorter weekday bulletins after ITN's News at One and News at Ten. During the rest of the decade, the region was eventually broken up into three sub-regions, which would receive their own news service.
Separate services for the West and East of the region were planned to begin from day one - but an industrial dispute over the launch of the East Midlands service - and the opening of new studios in Nottingham - resulted in the entire region continuing to receive a sole pan-regional programme from Birmingham. The launch of the Nottingham-based service was initially delayed for a month,. but the dispute was not resolved until September 1983, when the news service for the East was finally introduced. Within a few months, Nottingham operations were moved from a temporary set-up at Giltbrook to Central's new complex at nearby Lenton Lane.
On Monday 9 January 1989, a separate South Midlands service covering Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and parts of Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire was launched from a new computerised news centre in Abingdon. Thereafter, the Birmingham edition covered solely the West Midlands region (Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire).
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