Calendar (News)
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Calendar is a regional television news
News program
A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors...

 and current affairs
Current affairs (news format)
Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....

 programme, produced by ITV Yorkshire
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 at its studios in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, serving Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

 and parts of the North Midlands and North West Norfolk. The programme is usually broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, with short Calendar News bulletins airing seven days a week.

District reporters and camera crews are based at newsrooms in Sheffield, Hull and Lincoln.

1968 to January 2007

Calendar first aired on the launch day of Yorkshire Television - Monday 29 July 1968. Since its launch, the programme has been produced at YTV's main studios in Kirkstall Road, Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 but since 1989, has been broadcast from a specially converted centre opposite the main site.

Upon gaining the Belmont
Belmont transmitting station
The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain in the civil parish of South Willingham, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England . It is owned and operated by Arqiva.It has...

 transmitter in 1974 from Anglia Television
Anglia Television
Anglia Television is the ITV franchise holder for the East Anglia franchise region. Although Anglia Television takes its name from East Anglia, its transmission coverage extends beyond the generally accepted boundaries of that region. The station is based at Anglia House in Norwich, with regional...

, which served south Lincolnshire and north Norfolk, the programme developed a regional opt-out service for the area within the main programme. At the same time, Yorkshire Television (YTV) inherited the Anglia news offices in Grimsby
Grimsby
Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...

 & Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

 and opened a further newsroom in Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....

. For several years until the early 1980s, viewers served by the Belmont transmitter also received a localised weather forecast produced by the weather department at Anglia.

In 1977, YTV launched a six-week breakfast television
Breakfast television
Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...

 experiment, Good Morning Calendar. Good Morning Calendar is credited as being the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of TV-am
TV-am
TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of a commercial television franchise at breakfast-time , and broadcast every day of the week for most or all of the period...

. The programme ran concurrently with a similar Tyne Tees programme, Good Morning North, for North East viewers.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Calendars output consisted of a main evening programme alongside lunchtime and late night bulletins on weekdays; weekend bulletins were not introduced until the late 1980s. When ITV Schools
ITV Schools
ITV Schools was the educational television service set up in 1957 by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, broadcasting learning programmes for children ages 5 to 18 across ITV-affiliated stations...

programming was moved to Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 in 1987 and daytime programming introduced to ITV, national ITN and regional bulletins were introduced at 9:25am and 11am, along with a mid-afternoon bulletin. In the latter part of the 1980s,
Calendar expanded its lunchtime bulletin into a half-hour magazine show, Calendar Lunchtime Live. The programme was scrapped in early 1988 but reintroduced for a short period during 2001.

On Monday 24 September 1990, a third sub-regional opt-out for south Yorkshire and north Derbyshire was introduced -
Calendar South from Sheffield initially aired at lunchtime and within the main 6pm programme while Calendar East (Hull) aired in east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire & North Norfolk and Calendar News was broadcast to the rest of the region (west and north Yorkshire). The separate East and South services continued until December 2006.

January 2007 to February 2009

On 8 January 2007,
Calendars main 18:00 programme was split into North and South editions for the region. All other bulletins (weekday and weekend lunchtime, weekday late, and weekend early evening) were pan-regional. The previous East and South regions were merged to form a larger South area.

Calendar North: (north, west, and south west Yorkshire; north Derbyshire)

Calendar South: (central and east Lincolnshire; east and south east Yorkshire; east Nottinghamshire; north Norfolk).

The regular presenters of the North edition were Duncan Wood and Christine Talbot; two other long-standing Calendar presenters, John Shires and Gaynor Barnes, became the main regular presenters of the South edition. Both editions of the programme were broadcast from ITV Yorkshire's Leeds studios.

January 2009 to present

Cutbacks in ITV regional news coverage in early 2009 meant that its seventeen regions would be cut down to nine to "save costs", and regional news programmes would become pan-regional. The final sub-regional editions of Calendar aired on Wednesday 18 February 2009 with a new pan-regional programme launching the next day.

Short opt-outs are retained for the North and South sub-regions within the 6pm programme and after News at Ten - either the North or South opt is pre-recorded depending on the day's news. Calendar North presenters Duncan Wood and Christine Talbot now present the new programme, with Calendar South presenters John Shires and Gaynor Barnes moving to sports coverage and GMTV bulletins respectively.

Calendar airs seven days a week:
  • Three short breakfast bulletins during Daybreak
    Daybreak (ITV)
    Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...

  • A lunchtime bulletin after the ITV News at 1:30, airing between 13:55 and 14:00
  • The main half-hour evening edition of Calendar at 18:00
  • A late sub-regional bulletin after ITV News at Ten, airing between 22:25 and 22:35
  • Two early evening bulletins at the weekend: one on Saturday and one on Sunday


As with many ITV regional news programmes, some areas of the YTV region overlap with neighbouring ITV regions. For instance; Newark is covered by both Calendar and Central Tonight
Central Tonight
Central Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.-History:...

; similarly, north Norfolk is covered by both Calendar and Anglia Tonight
Anglia Tonight
Anglia Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Anglia , serving the East of England and parts of the East Midlands and South East England. The programme is usually broadcast at 18:00 every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of...

.

Main newsreaders

Person Title Location(s) Related note(s)
Gaynor Barnes
Gaynor Barnes
Gaynor Barnes is a British television presenter and journalist currently employed by ITV Yorkshire since 1991.From January 2007 to February 2009, she was a co-host of the South edition of Calendar alongisde John Shires...

 
Daybreak Calendar
Daybreak (ITV)
Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...

bulletins newscaster
Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 
Christine Talbot
Christine Talbot
Christine Talbot is a British television presenter currently working for ITV Yorkshire on its flagship news programme Calendar.-Career:Before joining YTV in 1994, Talbot worked on local newspapers in Lancashire. She then joined BBC North West as a presenter/reporter for North West Tonight...

 
Calendar newscaster Alternate lunch/late bulletin newscaster
Duncan Wood
Lisa Walton (Freelance
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

)
Calendar weekend bulletins newscaster

Weather presenters

Person Location(s) Related note(s)
Kerrie Gosney
Kerrie Gosney
Kerrie Gosney is a British meteorologist. Gosney is a weather presenter for ITV on a freelance basis and is originally from the Hope Valley in Derbyshire.-Education:...

 (Freelance
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

)
Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 
Utilised with ITV Border
Border Television
Border Television is the ITV franchise holder for the Border region, spanning the England/Scotland border and covering Dumfries & Galloway region, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria...

 and ITV Tyne Tees
Tyne Tees Television
Tyne Tees Television is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. As of 2009, it forms part of a non-franchise ITV Tyne Tees & Border region, shared with the ITV Border region...

Jon Mitchell 
Helen Pearson
Helen Pearson (journalist)
Helen Pearson was born on 8 February 1981 and is a British television presenter who is currently employed by ITV Tyne Tees & Border.In 2003, she began her career with ITV Westcountry based in Plymouth where she presented the now defunct opt-out for the South of the region...

 
Gateshead
Gateshead
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...

 
Relief from ITV Border and ITV Tyne Tees
Philippa Tomson
Philippa Tomson
Philippa Tomson is an English presenter and journalist. She is currently working freelance with various media organisations in the United Kingdom...

 (Freelance
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

)

District Correspondents

Person Location(s) Related note(s)
Victoria Beedham Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 
Newsreader
Sarah Clark Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

 
Martin Fisher Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

Charlie Garforth Leeds
David Hirst Sheffield Newsreader
Carolyn Hodgson Leeds
Sally Simpson Lincoln
Kate Walby  Leeds Newsreader

News Correspondents

Person Location(s) Related note(s)
Lisa Adlam Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 
Newsreader
Jon Hill
Chris Kiddey
Julie Lockwood
Frazer Maude (Freelance
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

)
Newsreader
Gail Mellors
Anne-Marie Tasker

Specialist Correspondents

Person Title Location(s) Related note(s)
Paul Burland Sports Correspondent Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

 
Newsreader
Ben Erlam Political Correspondent Westminster
Westminster
Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

 
Tina Gelder
Tina Gelder
Tina Gelder is a British journalist and presenter currently working for ITV Yorkshire on its flagship news programme Calendar.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-157682/Man-court-Rachels-murder.html...

Consumer Affairs Correspondent Leeds Newsreader
John Shires Sports Correspondent
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