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Also known as
  
ITV News Cymru Wales

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
1968

Language
  
English

Country of origin
  
Wales

Location(s)
  
Cardiff Bay, Wales

Program creator
  
ITV Wales & West

Networks
  
ITV, ITV Wales & West

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Presented by
  
Andrea Byrne Jonathan Hill

Executive producer(s)
  
Phil Henfrey (Head of News and Programmes)

Cast
  
Andrea Byrne, Jonathan Hill

Similar
  
BBC Wales Today, The West Tonight, Hospital 24/7, Satellite City, Westcountry Live

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Wales at Six (also known as ITV News Cymru Wales) is a Welsh national television news programme, produced by ITV Cymru Wales.

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Overview

Wales at Six and all other ITV Wales news programming is broadcast live from studios at Assembly Square in Cardiff Bay, with a North Wales newsroom based in Colwyn Bay, and a political unit at the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff Bay. District reporters are also based in West Wales, Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea.

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 of Lucy Owen to rival programme BBC Wales Today. Hill and Byrne anchor alternating editions of the main 6pm programme as of 30 June 2014. Ruth Wignall fronts national weather forecasts for ITV Wales.

History

From the launch of Harlech Television in May 1968, the company produced a full-scale bilingual news service - the only of its kind in the ITV network. The 6pm weekday slot for regional news was shared by two programmes - Y Dydd (The Day) in the Welsh language and Report Wales in English. The launch of S4C 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-running Y Byd ar Bedwar (The World on Four) and the youth magazine Hacio (Hacking).

Wales at Six replaced Report 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 at Culverhouse Cross in 1990. Wales at Six was latterly replaced by Wales Tonight in 1994 and 2005, HTV News in 1999, ITV Wales News in 2004 and ITV News Cymru Wales in 2013.

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. 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 at Cardiff 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.

Broadcast times

Wales at Six (or ITV News Cymru Wales) airs on ITV Wales seven days a week.

  • Three short opts air as part of Good Morning Britain at 6:10am, 7:10am and 8:10am
  • A three minute lunchtime bulletin, following the ITV Lunchtime News
  • The main 6pm programme Wales at Six preceeds the ITV Evening News
  • A ten minute late-night bulletin, following ITV News at Ten
  • At weekends, two five minute bulletins are broadcast, preceeding the ITV Weekend News – one later on Saturday afternoons and another on Sunday evenings.
  • Current notable on air team

  • Andrea Byrne (Main presenter, alternating)
  • Jonathan Hill (Main presenter, alternating)
  • Ruth Wignall (Weather presenter)
  • Show names

  • Y Dydd (1968–1982) (Welsh)
  • Report Wales (1968–1982) (English)
  • Wales at Six (1982–1994)
  • Wales Tonight (1994–1999)
  • HTV News (1999–2004)
  • Wales News or Wales Tonight (2004–2013)
  • ITV News Cymru Wales or Wales at Six (2013–present)
  • References

    ITV News: Wales at Six Wikipedia


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