Granada Reports
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Granada Reports is the evening news programme produced by ITV Granada and broadcasting to North West England and the Isle of Man. It broadcasts for thirty minutes each Monday to Friday from 18:00, covering regional news stories, features, sport and weather. It is presented by Lucy Meacock and Gamal Fahnbulleh. Shorter bulletins air in Good Morning Britain, on weekday lunchtimes, after News At Ten and at weekends.
ITV News Granada Reports (2013-present)
Good Morning Granada (2014-present)
News, Sport
Lucy Meacock (1988-present)
Gamal Fahnbulleh (2021-present)
Lucy West (Head of News)
MediaCityUK,
Salford Quays,
Greater Manchester, England
Multi-camera
ITV Granada
4:3 (1956–2007)
16:9 Widescreen (2007–2010)
16:9 HDTV 1080i (2010–present)
1956 (1956) –
ITV Weather
2 Current notable on air team
3 Former notable on air team
OverviewEdit
Granada Reports previous title card
Granada Reports is produced and broadcast from studios in the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays – the first bulletin from Salford aired on Sunday 24 March 2013.[1] 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, Newsview and People and Places. On 20 September 1978 Joy Division made their television debut on by performing "Shadowplay" on the "What's On" segment of Granada Reports.[2] In April 1986, most of Granada's regional news operation was relocated from Manchester to a computerised news centre at the former Traffic Office building in Liverpool's Albert Dock, eight years after the company had first established a news base in the city. The flagship evening programme returned to Manchester in 1992 with bulletins broadcast from the Albert Dock newsroom until 1998 – the studios were closed in July 2006.
Between 4 September 1989 and 28 September 2001, the main evening programme was known as Granada Tonight. 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 by cutbacks to ITV regional news in early 2009.[3] 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.[4]
Lucy Meacock has been a main presenter of the programme since 1988. [5]
Alongside Lucy Meacock, Tony Morris was the long-serving main co-presenter from 2003 until August 2020, passing away shortly after a cancer diagnosis. He had been presenting the programme until only a few weeks before his death. [6]
Since March 2020, due to Covid-19, the format of two Presenters and a Sports Desk were both temporarily dropped in favour of alternating presenters in the studio; the Sports Desk returned to the programme on 6 July 2020; on the 11th January 2021, the two presenter format will be returning to the programme.[7]
Current notable on air teamEdit
Lucy Meacock (Granada Reports co-presenter)
Gamal Fahnbulleh (Granada Reports co-presenter)
Mel Barham
Rachel Townsend
Amy Welch
Elaine Willcox
Mike Hall
Kerrie Gosney
Jon Mitchell
Former notable on air teamEdit
Gordon Burns
Martin Dougan
Judy Finnigan
Bob Greaves (deceased)
Stuart Hall (convicted)
Daniel Hewitt (ITV News)
Catherine Jacob
Debbie Lindley
Andrew Lindsay (BBC Sport)
Richard Madeley
Alistair Mann (Match of the Day)
Adam McClean (BBC Breakfast, BBC News)
Tony Morris (deceased)
Fred Talbot (convicted)
Mark Tattersall
Alan Towers (deceased)
Dan Walker (BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport)
Anthony Wilson (deceased)
AwardsEdit
BAFTA Television Awards
Best News Coverage: 2007, 2013
Best News Coverage in the Nations and Regions: 2007, 2008
Best Regional News Programme – North West: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Best Regional Story – North West: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Best Regional on Screen Talent – North West: 2011 (Rob Smith), 2012 (Clare Fallon)
Best Innovation in Multimedia – North West: 2012 (Adam McClean)
^ ITV News Granada Reports to start broadcasting from MediaCityUK Prolific North, 18 March 2013
^ "40 Years ago Today Joy Division Made Their TV Debut on Granada Reports". www.post-punk.com. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
^ Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (17 February 2009). "Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run". guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ Redundancies at Granada Reports Manchester Evening News, 27 September 2012
^ Granada Reports moves to new home at MediaCityUK ITV News, 25 March 2013
^ Peachy, Josh (3 August 2020). "ITV Granada Reports presenter Tony Morris dies aged 57". Prolific North. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
^ https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-01-04/meet-granada-reports-new-presenter-gamal-fahnbulleh
Granada News at itv.com
BBC News at Ten: 7 July Bombings BAFTA: Television Award
(The Morecambe Bay Cockling Tragedy)
2007 Succeeded by
Sky News: Glasgow Airport Attack
BBC Look North: Joanne Nelson Murder Case RTS: Television Journalism
Nations and Regions News Coverage
(The Morecambe Bay Cockling Tragedy);
(The Lesley Molseed Trial)
2007, 2008 Succeeded by
The West Tonight: Weston Pier Fire
Channel 4 News: Japan Earthquake BAFTA: Television Award
(Hillsborough – The Truth at Last)
ITV News at Ten: Woolwich Attacks
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