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ITN was founded in May 1955 by a consortium of the initial four Independent Television (later ITV) broadcasting companies, with former Labour MP Aidan Crawley as editor-in-chief. The first bulletin was broadcast at 10 pm on 22 September 1955 on ITV's launch night.
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The original ITN logo, featuring a large "T" flanked either side by "I" and "N" (all encased within an outlined circle), was used from 1955 up to 1970.
The programme was first broadcast on 16 October 1972 as First Report, a twenty-minute bulletin presented by Robert Kee at 12:40pm.
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The bulletin was moved to 1:00pm on 7 September 1974 and retitled as News at One on 6 September 1976.
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On 20 July 1987, the bulletin was relaunched as News at 12:30. Jon Snow and former BBC newsreader Julia Somerville fronted alternate editions of the programme.
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On 7 March 1988, ITV's daytime programming was rejigged and the bulletin was moved back to its 1:00pm timeslot.
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On 2 March 1992, News at 12:30 was relaunched as the Lunchtime News with a dual-presenting team comprising Nicholas Owen and Carol Barnes.
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On 6 March 1995, ITN's news bulletins were relaunched with a cohesive identity. The Lunchtime News on air team was revamped, this time with a returning Julia Somerville alongside Dermot Murnaghan. Owen and Barnes remained as relief presenters.
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On 22 September 1955 when the ITV television service was launched, ITN provided an early evening news service at 5:50pm. It was known as ITN News, and presented by Gordon Honeycombe.
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On 4 April 1988 the News at 5.45 underwent some cosmetic changes, with the animated visual 'roll' logo and electronic theme music being dropped in favour of a new computer-generated opening sequence and a more contemporary theme tune.
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On 13 February 1989, the introduction of a national weather forecast at the end of the programme led to the bulletin's timeslot starting earlier at 5:40pm, being extended in length and the title being changed to News at 5.40.
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On 2 March 1992, ITN News at 5.40 was renamed the ITN Early Evening News. The new look made good use of ITN's impressive headquarters in London.
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On 6 March 1995 all of ITN's news programmes on ITV were relaunched with a more unified look.
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In November 1992, News at Ten underwent a major revamp. Trevor McDonald become the programme's chief presenter.
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News at Ten was controversially axed in March 1999, and replaced by a new 11pm bulletin called the ITV Nightly News.
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In 1999, to co-incide with the changes to the main evening bulletins, ITV News underwent a new look.
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The current ITV News look was launched in 2013, to tie-in with a complete revamp of ITV presentation.
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