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London News Network (or LNN) was a television news and facilities organisation in London. News broadcasting (also known as newscast or newsbreak) is the Broadcasting of various news events and other Information via London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1992 as a joint operation between London's two ITV contractors, Carlton Television and London Weekend Television, with each company holding a 50% stake. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Carlton Television is the British ITV franchisee for London and parts of the surrounding counties from 925am every Monday to 5 LNN debuted on air on 1 January 1993 with London Tonight, on the same day that Carlton replaced Thames Television as London's weekday ITV franchise. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) London Tonight is the flagship news programme broadcast to the Carlton / LWT region of the ITV Network Thames Television was a licencee of the British ITV television network covering London and parts of the surrounding counties Prior to this, LWT had its own news department, separate from that of Thames.

The company's facility was located at the The London Television Centre on the South Bank (home to LWT and The London Studios). The London Studios (also known as 'The London Television Centre' is a television studio complex which forms a part of London Weekend Television 's London Television Centre The South Bank is the area in London on the southern bank of the River Thames near Waterloo station that houses a number of important A view of the London skyline, including St. Paul's Cathedral, could be seen from the window set of Studio 7, the main news studio. St Paul's Cathedral, is the Anglican Cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London.

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Programming

LNN's core programmes were London Today and the flagship evening bulletin London Tonight, produced seven days a week for Carlton and LWT (the first time regional ITV in London had had such an operation). London Tonight is the flagship news programme broadcast to the Carlton / LWT region of the ITV Network London Tonight is the flagship news programme broadcast to the Carlton / LWT region of the ITV Network LNN was in charge of the production of both programmes until 2004, when ITN took over those responsibilities. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " ITN ( Independent Television News) is a major news and content provider with headquarters in the United Kingdom. The final edition of London Tonight produced by LNN was broadcast on 29 February 2004, following which, its news operation was absorbed into ITN. Leap years Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " At the same time, the set and visual style of the programme altered to match, more closely, the new corporate ITV News branding. The transmission business continued at The London Television Centre, albeit under the aegis of the Southern Transmission Centre (now managed by Technicolor Network Services, at its UK headquarters in Chiswick).

The date also marked the move of London Today and London Tonight from The London Studios to the headquarters of ITN on Grays Inn Road, London. The London Studios (also known as 'The London Television Centre' is a television studio complex which forms a part of London Weekend Television 's London Television Centre Gray's Inn Road is a major road in central London, in the London Borough of Camden. The familiar London skyline backdrop for its news programmes is maintained, however, thanks to a fixed live video feed.

Sports programming was often produced for the London ITV region by LNN's sport division, credited as "LSN/London Sports Network" on the end caption. LSN was heavily linked with ITV Sport - it maintained the ITV Sport archive and was the production partner (with Central) on ITV's football coverage, as well as other sports. LSN and Central's sports department (by now controlled and branded Carlton) were merged in 2006, forming ITV Sport Productions, now under the control of ITV director of news and sport Mark Sharman.

Transmission

Aside from merging the production of news and sports programming for the region into the new venture, LWT and Carlton took the view that instead of having two transmission centres in different buildings, neither on air at the same time as the other, it would make financial sense for the transmission departments to be merged as part of the new company. To that end, from the start in 1993, LNN took over responsibility for the transmission of Carlton and LWT to the viewer at home.

The companies stopped short of handing over full control of presentation and scheduling, however, and planning and scheduling staff, along with the continuity announcers (the "voices" of the stations), were retained separately by Carlton and LWT. This meant that, uniquely for the time, the transmission controllers (later "network directors" - a change only in name) and the continuity announcers worked for different companies and answered to different management.

Carlton and LWT effectively shared the position of what was known as "nominated contractor" in the ITV network. The responsibilities of this ranged from contingency planning and coordinating the network's response to, for example, major breaking news to the provision of the "Network Feed", this being the "clean" feed of programmes to all the other contractors in the ITV Network. To this end, LNN operated two tranmission feeds: one to the London transmitter at Crystal Palace and its dependent relays, and another to the other ITV control rooms around the country. For biologic transmitters see Transmitter substance. A transmitter is an electronic device which usually with the aid of an antenna The Crystal Palace transmitting station is a Broadcasting and Telecommunications site in the Crystal Palace area of the London Borough of Bromley The latter was provided without announcements, commercials or interstitial material (except during times of a "presented feed", such as during the shared overnight service). The network feed was known as "KRS-17/67" - referring to the circuits (17 the original analogue and 67 the latterday digital) allocated to it by BT Broadcast between the South Bank and the BT Tower (The London Television Centre stands on a stretch of the South Bank known as the "King's Reach", and "KRS" an acronym for "King's Reach Studios"). The BT Tower is a tall cylindrical building in London, England. The London Studios (also known as 'The London Television Centre' is a television studio complex which forms a part of London Weekend Television 's London Television Centre The South Bank is the area in London on the southern bank of the River Thames near Waterloo station that houses a number of important

The LNN transmission department has latterly been absorbed into the merged ITV plc as the Southern Transmission Centre, the management and operation of which has been outsourced to Technicolor Network Services. ITV plc ( is a British media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial As a result, playout will shortly leave The London Television Centre and move to Technicolor Network Services' hi-tech, HD capable broadcast centre in Chiswick.

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