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ITV News Tyne Tees

ITV News Tyne Tees is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the Tyne Tees region.

The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead with reporters also based at a Teesside office in Billingham. Both regional services (i.e ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround) use the same presenter(s) and studio/set, therefore one of the two programmes—depending on the day's news—is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast.

The Tyne Tees news service transmits to Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Northumberland, Teesside, the Alston area of Cumbria, and parts of North Yorkshire.

In some (but not all) areas of North Yorkshire viewers have their aerials point to Bilsdale TV transmitter that broadcasts ITV News Tyne Tees, however most viewers in the county point their aerial to the Emley Moor or Oliver's Mount Transmitter to watch ITV News Calendar from Leeds. Viewers in Scarborough and some in Filey receive ITV News Calendar from the relay transmitter at Oliver's Mount.

On 15 January 1959, the original Tyne Tees Television news service was launched with short evening bulletins and a weekly magazine programme, North East Roundabout which was broadcast each Friday. On 30 March 1964, it began airing nightly with the modified name North East Newsview. In 1969, the station's first colour television news programme was broadcast under the new name of Today at Six. From 6 September 1976, Tyne Tees' longest-running news programme Northern Life aired with notable presenters including Paul Frost and Pam Royle. On 5 October 1992 this was replaced by Tyne Tees Today (and from 31 March 1993 a sub-regional service would be known as Network North for South of the region only). In November 1995 both Tyne Tees Today and Network North were renamed to Tyne Tees News although separate editions for the North and South of the region were retained. In January 1996 this was joined by lifestyle programme, Tonight.

On Monday 2 September 1996, following the defection of the popular Mike Neville to Tyne Tees from the BBC's Look North after 32 years, North East Tonight was launched, replacing the two separate news services and the lifestyle programme, Tonight.

In August and November 2005, ITV Tyne Tees trialed sub-regional editions of North East Tonight.

This was in turn following chief presenter Mike Neville's absence from July 2005.

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