Wales Tonight is a national television news

News program

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 and current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

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 programme, also including local sports news and local features of interest, produced by ITV Wales at its studios in the western outskirts of Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

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Like all regional news programmes on ITV1 in England and Wales and Channel Television

Channel Television

Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

, it uses the generic ITV font and idents.

Overview

Wales Tonight and Wales News are broadcast live from ITV Wales' studios at Culverhouse Cross

Culverhouse Cross

Culverhouse Cross is suburban district in the west of Cardiff, capital of Wales, lying on the border with the Vale of Glamorgan.The busy Culverhouse Cross roundabout is an important part of the primary road network to the west of the city and connects the A4232 , the A4050 , and...

 on the western outskirts of Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

. District reporters and camera crews are based at newsrooms in Colwyn Bay

Colwyn Bay

- Demography :Prior to local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 Colwyn Bay was a municipal borough with a population of c.25,000, but in 1974 this designation disappeared leaving five separate parishes, known as communities in Wales, of which the one bearing the name Colwyn Bay encompassed...

, Newtown, Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

 and Swansea

Swansea

Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...

, along with a political unit at the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff Bay

Cardiff Bay

Cardiff Bay is the area created by the Cardiff Barrage in South Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The regeneration of Cardiff Bay is now widely regarded as one of the most successful regeneration projects in the United Kingdom. The Bay is supplied by two rivers to form a freshwater lake round the...

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Wales was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in 2009.

Broadcast times

Wales News airs on ITV Wales seven days a week. Wales Tonight airs on weekdays only.

On weekdays, three short bulletins are broadcast 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...

. The lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV News at 1:30, giving a six minute round-up of the days developments from 1:55pm. Wales News also airs two bulletins at weekends: one on Saturday, in the late afternoon, and one on Sunday: in the early evening, usually at 6:25pm.

The main evening edition of Wales Tonight begins at 6.00pm, and ends at 6.30pm. The late edition of Wales Tonight is broadcast after ITV News at Ten, airing between 10.30pm and 10.35pm, Mondays to Fridays.

Main newsreaders

• Andrea Benfield
  Andrea Benfield
  Andrea Benfield , is an English journalist, currently working with ITV.Benfield is engaged to Wales rugby player Lee Byrne.-Early life:...
  
   (Wales Tonight and alternate late bulletin)
• Jonathan Hill (Wales Tonight and alternate late bulletin)

• Andrew Jones (Daybreak and lunchtime bulletins)

District Correspondents

• Ian Lang (North West Wales)
• Lorna Prichard (North East Wales)
• Rob Shelley (Mid Wales)

• Dean Thomas (South West Wales)
• Kevin Ashford (West Wales) *
• Hannah Thomas (South East Wales)

Specialist Correspondents

• Mariclare Carey-Jones (Health Correspondent) *
• Carole Green (Business Correspondent)

• Joanna Simpson (Education Correspondent) *

Politics

• Esyllt Carr (Political Reporter)
• Lynn Courtney (Political Reporter)

• Adrian Masters (Political Editor)

Sport

• Nick Hartley
• Rob King

• Richard Morgan (Chief Sports Correspondent)

Weather presenters

• Natasha Llewelyn (also Newsroom Journalist)
• Ruth Wignall
  Ruth Wignall
  Ruth Wignall is a British television presenter for ITV Wales, presenting weekday weather forecasts during Wales Tonight and short news bulletins...
  
   *

• James Wright
  James Wright
  James Wright or Jim Wright may refer to:*James Homer Wright , American pathologist*James Wright , President of Dartmouth College, historian*James Wright , American creator of Silly Putty...
  
  (freelance)

Reporters

• Stuart Bonathan
• Carl Edwards *
• Nick Hartley
• Nicola Hendy
• Jane Solomons

• Dafydd Jones
• Sian Morgan
• Rachel Newman
• Rob Osborne

Non newsreaders marked with an * are also bulletin newsreaders and stand-in newsreaders.

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