Granada Reports

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Granada Reports

Genre	News
Creator(s)	ITV Granada
Starring	Lucy Meacock Tony Morris
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	Granada Reports: 30 Minutes Granada News: Varies
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1 Granada

Granada Reports is the flagship news programme of ITV franchisee Granada, transmitting to the North West of England. The name was used when the news service was launched in 1980, but other names including Granada Tonight, Granada News, etc. have been used. ^[1].

1 On Air
2 Presenters
3 Presentation
4 References
5 External links

[edit] On Air

Granada Reports airs on ITV1 Granada at 6pm on weeknights. News bulletins at other times are billed as Granada News.

Weekdays

(Various times during GMTV)
11.10 - 11.15 (During This Morning)
13.50 - 13.55 (During ITV Lunchtime News)
18.00 - 18.30 (Before ITV Evening News)
22.50 - 22.55 (During ITV News at 10.30)

Weekends

Granada News also airs regular bulletins throughout the weekend.

[edit] Presenters

Fred Talbot is currently the longest serving member at Granada Reports since he joined Granada Reports in 1985. He has done the weather forecast but currently does reports - usually shown on Granada Reports in the weekday evenings.

Lucy Meacock has been a main anchor since she joined during a revamp of the programme in 1990. She and Tony Morris currently co-present the main evening programme, but other presenters are used occasionally.

The shorter news reports are usually presented by Sarah Elliott, Kate Giffard, Maria Gearing or Caroline Wareham.

Weather is presented by Jon Mitchell, Jo Blythe, Debbie Lindley and Kerrie Gosneyfrom Yorkshire Television.

Granada Reports have also had presenters who did the in-vision announcements before on Granada also did short news bulletins. These include Granada's most-known announcers such as Colin Weston, Jim Pope and Andrew Brittan who announced what programme was going to be on Granada in the past.

Former presenters include Richard Madeley (former anchor of This Morning and one half of Richard and Judy), Tony Wilson, and Bob Greaves.

In 2007 Granada Reports won two prestigious Network Television Awards for its coverage of the end of the Morecambe Bay Cockling Trial.

Granada Reports won the 2007 National Royal Television Society Nations and Regions Best News Coverage.

And Granada Reports became the first Regional TV News operation to be named Best News Programme at the 2007 Broadcast Awards.

[edit] Presentation

The News from Granada has been through many facelifts; there were times when presented in the newsroom, in a lounge with sofas to give it a more welcoming and warm look, and in an American news style. Currently, the studio follows a corporate look by ITV, and has done so since 2004.