Granada Tonight
| Granada Reports | |
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| Also known as | Good Morning Granada during ITV Breakfast |
| Presented by |
Lucy Meacock Tony Morris |
| Country of origin | England, United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lucy West (Head of News) |
| Location(s) |
MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 6pm show) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Granada |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV Granada |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV 16:9) |
| Original release | 1956 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | ITV News |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Granada Reports is a regional news programme for North West England and the Isle of Man, produced by ITV Granada.
Granada Reports is produced and broadcast from studios in the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, with the first bulletin being broadcast from the new facilities on 24 March 2013. Before this, the news service was based at Granada's studios in Quay Street, Manchester. Reporters are also based at newsrooms in the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, Lancaster and on the Isle of Man. News staff were also based at offices in Blackburn and Chester until they were closed in 2005.
Prior to its launch in 1973, the nightly news programme had been known under several titles such as Northern Newscast, Scene at Six Thirty and People and Places. Between 2 January 1990 and 28 September 2001, the main evening programme was known as Granada Tonight (which utilised a variation of American company Hearst Television's standardised graphics from 5 October 1998 up until 30 September 2001). Shorter bulletins aired as Granada News. Most bulletins now air under the joint branding of ITV News and Granada Reports with breakfast bulletins entitled Good Morning Granada.
The programme was unaffected with cutbacks to ITV regional news in early 2009. The only major change saw ITV Granada take over coverage of the Isle of Man from ITV Tyne Tees & Border on 16 July 2009.
On 27 September 2012, it was announced technical staff had been invited to volunteer for redundancy as part of national job losses affecting ITV News services. The timing coincided with production moving from Granada Studios to MediaCityUK.
Lucy Meacock and Tony Morris are main presenters of the programme since 1988 and 2003 respectively.
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