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| Wales at Six | |
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| Also known as | ITV News Cymru Wales |
| Presented by | Andrea Byrne orJonathan Hill |
| Starring | Ruth Dodsworth |
| Country of origin | Wales,United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Zoe Thomas (Head of News and Programmes) |
| Production locations | Cardiff Bay,Cardiff,Wales |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | HTV(1968–2002) Carlton Television(2002–2004) ITV Cymru Wales(2004–) |
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| Network | Harlech/HTV Cymru Wales/HTV Wales(1968–2002) ITV1 (ITV Cymru Wales)(2002–) |
| Release | 1968 (1968) – present |
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| ITV News ITV Weather Sharp End Wales This Week | |
ITV News Wales at Six is the evening news programme broadcast and produced byITV Cymru Wales.
Wales at Six and all other ITV Wales news programming is broadcast live from studios at Assembly Square inCardiff Bay, with a North Wales newsroom based inColwyn Bay, and a political unit at theSenedd inCardiff Bay. District reporters are also based in West Wales,Merthyr Tydfil andSwansea.[1]
Jonathan Hill was promoted from news reporter and newsreader to a main anchor for the main evening news programme during February 1994.Andrea Byrne was appointed co-anchor on 14 January 2008 following the departure ofLucy Owen to rival programmeBBC Wales Today.[2] Hill and Byrne anchor alternating editions of the main 6pm programme as of June 2014.[3]Kylie Pentelow took over from Byrne on 4 February 2019 for one-year.[4]Ruth Dodsworth fronts national weather forecasts for ITV Cymru Wales since 2000.
From the launch ofHarlech Television in May 1968, the company produced a full-scale bilingual news service - the only of its kind in theITV network. The 6pm weekday slot for regional news was shared by two programmes -Y Dydd (The Day) in the Welsh language andReport Wales in English.
The launch ofS4C in November 1982 signalled the end of Welsh language news from HTV, although the company continues to produce Welsh current affairs programmes, including the long-runningY Byd ar Bedwar (The World on Four).
Wales at Six replacedReport Wales as a full-length English language news programme on Monday 1 November 1982. HTV's news service was based at its Pontcanna studios until moving to the Television Centre atCulverhouse Cross in 1990.Wales at Six was latterly replaced byWales Tonight in 1994 and 2005,HTV News in 1999,ITV Wales News in 2004 andITV News Cymru Wales in 2013.[5]
On 17 September 2013, ITV Wales announced it would launch a weekly 30-minute current affairs programme,Newsweek Wales, featuring interviews, analysis and a look back at the week's main news stories in Wales.[6] The new programme, broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes, was launched on Sunday 22 September 2013. A previous plan to extend the weekday late bulletin to 15 minutes was scrapped.
On Saturday 28 June 2014, ITV Cymru Wales broadcast from its Culverhouse Cross studios for the last time. Two days later, broadcasting began from its new base atCardiff Bay. As part of the move,Wales at Six was revived as the title for the main 6pm programme on weekdays, after an absence of 20 years.
| Preceded by | RTS: Television Journalism Regional Daily News Magazine 2002 | Succeeded by |
ITV News (ITV nations & regions) | |
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