Five News

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Five News is the news programme of British broadcaster Five. It is produced by Sky News.

From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Five, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997.

History

"5 News", as it was then branded, was one of the new station's flagship programmes when it launched on 30 March 1997. It was originally produced by ITN, which at the time also provided the news for Channel 4 and ITV. It was announced on 9 March 2004 that Sky had won the new contract to provide Five with its news bulletins.^[1]

The first Sky-produced bulletin was meant to be on Monday 3 January 2005 but the Boxing Day tsunami meant it premiered two days earlier in a short Saturday evening update.^[2]

Over its relatively short life, it has pioneered a number of innovations in style, format and content of news and won numerous awards in its early years.^[3]

On Monday 20 October 2008, Five News was given a refreshed look with new theme music, new Five News titles, and was given a "Five News at 7" name for the edition of Five News at 7pm. Natasha Kaplinsky currently anchors the 5pm bulletin called Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky and Isla Traquair anchored Five News at 7 (the 7pm edition of Five News) - Five News at 7 saw the return of Five News' presenters standing up in the studio as a new refreshed look.

On 10 August 2009, Five announced its Five News at 7 programme would be axed in Autumn 2009 along with newscaster Isla Traquair. Isla announced on Five News at 7 on the 28 of August 2009 it was her last programme. The programme didn't stop airing for another week, and on the 4th of September, Matt Barbet presented the last programme. Five News at 7 was replaced by an hour long programme called Live from Studio Five, a nightly magazine programme lasting 60 minutes, airing from 18:30 weeknights, featuring a mix of news and chat, from 14 September 2009. The Apprentice runner-up Kate Walsh will present the show,^[4] along with ex-footballer Ian Wright and former glamour model Melinda Messenger. Thew new show rivals the BBC One programme The One Show.^[5]

On Wednesday 9 September 2009, the Five News studio was given a refreshed look, to allow the studio to be used also by Live from Studio Five. The set was changed slightly and looks darker: the floor is now black, and the desk has now gone. However, the titles and graphics have not been changed.

On 7 October 2009, Natasha informed Five bosses she was pregnant again.^[6]

In November 2009, John Partridge of facial disfigurement charity Changing Faces will present the lunchtime news bulletins all week. "We hope it will make viewers examine their own prejudices" commented Five News chief Chris Shaw.^[7]

Website

Since September 2009, the Five News website is now just a page featuring old celebrity reports with sections about the presenters and reporters/correspondents, It also includes featured articles written by Five News reporters. It no longer contains the days top news story, weather forecasts, or Natasha's Newsroom blog (which used to say what was coming up in the 5pm programme). Now, the Five News website has been merged with the Channel 5 website.

Presenters

Current newscasters

Former newscasters

• Faye Barker (2008)
• Roland Buerk (1997-2000)
• Rob Butler (1997-2003)
• Andrea Catherwood - Main presenter (2000-2001)
• Helen Fospero (2005-2009)
• Kate Gerbeau (2004-2008)
• Phil Lavelle (2009)
• Katie Ledger (1997-2004)
• Priya Kaur-Jones (2005-2007)
• John Suchet - Main presenter (2006-2007)
• Charlie Stayt (1997-2005)
• Elaine Parke (1999-2003)
• Louisa Preston (2001-2005)
• Asha Tanna (2007-2008)
• Isla Traquair (2007-2009)
• Kirsty Young - Main presenter (1997-2000, 2001-2007)

Former Weather team

Until 2009, Five had a dedicated team of weather presenters. However since March 2009 various Sky News weather presenters can be seen. Lucy Verasamy is the main presenter seen on FIVE Weather & Sky New's Head of Weather - Francis Wilson is raley seen, alought the sky News duty weather presenter presents forecasts.

Correspondents

News programmes

Current programmes

Sky News broadcasts Five News updates for FIVE on weekday evenings with Polly Whitehouse, and on the weekend with Julian Druker.

Former programmes

Five has previously aired the following weekday news editions:

• 5 News Early - A breakfast edition broadcast at 06.00 (1997-2000)
• Five News At 11.30 - Late Morning Bulletin ( - 2007)
• 5 News At Noon (later Five News At Noon) - A daytime edition broadcast (1998?-2004)
• 5 News - The generic name and the nightly edition (1997-1999)
• 5 News At Breakfast - A shorter breakfast edition (2000-2001^[8])
• 5 News At Six - An evening edition broadcast (1999-2001)
• 5 News At 5.30 (later Five News At 5.30) - An early evening edition broadcast (2001-2004)
• Five News at 7 - A mid-evening edition broadcast
• 5 News At 7.30 (later Five News At 7.30) - A nightly edition(2001-2004)
• First On Five - A nightly news segment presented within the main edition (1997-2000)

Features

• Five News provide afternoon and evening updates on the hour, every hour during the week
• A 'ticker' was used during these updates, the first seen on a terrestrial news broadcast, outside of a simulcast with a news channel. It was however switched to a weather ticker before being dropped entirely in 2007.
• A presenter standing up or 'perching' rather than sitting behind a desk^[9] (which has since been used by other broadcasters).
  This feature has now been banned, with presenters at the seating area for all bulletins^[10]
• On air 'teases' from production staff
• Live discussions involving various experts, campaigners, celebrities and political commentators
• Guest editors - these included Ms. Dynamite, Dame Kelly Holmes, Howard Marks and Alastair Campbell
• Your News, a segment of most bulletins given over to viewers' videos and now adapted by many other news programmes under the banner 'user-generated content'^[11]
• On-screen email addresses for reporters while they're on air, a feature previously seen in newspapers. This was dropped a few months after introduction.
• When the contract transferred to Sky News, Five News was the first programme to broadcast (and, for the first time, in widescreen) from the new state-of-the-art news centre at Sky's headquarters in Osterley. It has since been joined by the main Sky News channel and Sky News Radio.

References

1. ^ "Five to take Sky News bulletins". BBC News. 9 March 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3546373.stm. Retrieved 29 September 2007. 
2. ^ "New look for Five News". Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/newsdesk/5news.php. Retrieved 29 September 2007. 
3. ^ "RTS Television Journalism Awards 1997". Royal Television Society. 1997. http://www.rts.org.uk/awards.asp?sec_id=372. Retrieved 29 September 2007. 
4. ^ Walsh thrilled with new Five show
5. ^ Apprentice Kate to host new Five show
6. ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2670746/Natasha-Kaplinsky-pregnant-again.html
7. ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2723713/Man-with-facial-disfigurement-set-to-read-C5-news.html#ixzz0WXiDRfQO
8. ^ Radio Times, 7-13 July 2001, 14-20 July 2001 (ITN News Channel simulcast started 16 July 2001 in place of 5 News at Breakfast)
9. ^ "New look for Five News". Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/newsdesk/5news.php. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
10. ^ "Five: Sitting down is the new standing up". MediaGuardian (free subscription required). 1 October 2007. http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2181260,00.html. Retrieved 2007-10-01. 
11. ^ "Your News". five.tv. http://news.five.tv/your_news.asp?sid=2. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 

External links

• News at five.tv