Making the News at Ten: Behind the Scenes of ITN's Flagship Programme (1983)
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Published 2023-09-22
To mark ITN's 68th birthday, we're sharing this special 1983 programme that gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the people and processes involved in producing a daily round of up the day's news. Featuring a number of ITN legends as well as some wonderfully clunky examples of what constituted cutting-edge technology in 1983, this 40-year-old programme shows just how long ITN has been at the forefront of television news production.
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All Comments (21)
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For anyone who would be interested, in 1983 ITN were based in Well Stree, London & operated two television studios. Studio 1 was their largest studio at 2,000 Sq Ft & was home to News at One, News at 5.45 & News at Ten, along with weekend news. Studio 2 was their smaller studio at 700 Sq Ft & was used by Channel 4 News & other news programmes such as summaries.
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This is great archive material from ITN. More please.
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At 12:05 - pause here and you catch a glimpse of the News at One backdrop over on the right hand side of the News at Ten set - you can just make out the world backdrop that was used by News at One in 1983. The news desk seen here for News at Ten would simply be shifted to that part of the studio and used for the News at One in front of that backdrop.
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IIRC the term EJ was "Electronic Journalist" (aka ENG). Great to see the ACR in use, too.
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ITN back in the 70s and 80s also had a special deal with Ireland's RTE - a lot of world news and UK news came from ITN and was shown on RTE News, especially their "Newsnight" which for a decade from 1978 would air on their second channel RTE 2 as their last main programme of the night, usually around 11.15pm.
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In 1983, the ITN News on ITV each weekday were News at One (1pm to 1.20pm), News at 5.45 (5.45pm - 6.00pm) & News at Ten (10.00pm - 10.30pm). On Saturdays & Sundays ITN provided a 5 min lunchtime news summary, a 10 min early evening news & a 15 min main evening news programme.
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11:02 - Here is Studio 1 at ITN headquarters at Wells Street - this studio was fairly small, at 2,000 Sq Ft - however it was the same size as the BBC's main news studio N2 at BBC Television Centre, except unlike the BBC, ITN really only had one main studio, wheras the BBC had two.
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Very interesting,I always wanted to know,how ITN behind the scenes work.
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The night covered here is 7th January 1983 when Sandy Gall and Martyn Lewis were the presenters
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Interesting to see the latest 1982 technology in action. (I know this is 1983, but since it's from 7th January it's safe to assume it wouldn't have changed in that short period of time). Also, within about 4 or 5 years of this they would have stopped using typewriters. It was probably computers only by about 1988.
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You can see the back drop for the News at one,at 1205 in the back ground,at the side of Sandy Cole.
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Is the News at 545 in the same studio? And the women counting down to going on air,looks young,is she still working for ITN?? 2:04
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I,thought there was only one main ITN Studio???
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That Miss Diana Jones,how old is she by now?? And the young women with the hat on counting down the seconds??
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I,only thought there was one main ITN news studio in Wells Street??
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Is the News at One from the same studio???? Does the News At 545 come form it to??
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How do they get a close up of Big Ben's clock faces???
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Who composed the theme music for ITN News at Ten??
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I,was wondering if Diane edward Jones still alive??
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Old school proper NaT
