Central Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands. It includes local sports news and local features of interest.
Originally, the main weekday evening programme did not have a different title from other bulletins (unlike most other ITV regions, e.g., HTV News/Wales at 6). This finally changed in the late 1990s, when the title Central News at Six was adopted – coincidi...
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Central Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands. It includes local sports news and local features of interest.
Originally, the main weekday evening programme did not have a different title from other bulletins (unlike most other ITV regions, e.g., HTV News/Wales at 6). This finally changed in the late 1990s, when the title Central News at Six was adopted – coinciding with being rescheduled from 18:25 to 18:00. By Monday 24 July 2006, the 18:00 programme had been renamed again, to Central Tonight (except for the South Midlands edition, which retained the Central News at Six name until its final 6pm programme on 1 December 2006). On 19 November 2009 it received a new titles and graphics package to fit with the ITV News brand. It was the first ITV Region to adopt the new identity and it is expected to be rolled out to other regions in December 2009.
Launched on 1 January 1982 – replacing ATV Today – there...
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