ITN World News
ITN World News was a 30‑minute international news program produced by ITN and broadcast from London during the late 1980s and 1990s. It appeared on cable or satellite TV and was shown in many countries, with a separate domestic edition on UK terrestrial TV.
The show began in 1987 as ITN Super Channel News for the pan‑European channel Super Channel. The main live bulletin aired at 21:00 GMT (22:00 CET). Early presenters included John Suchet, Sue Carpenter and David Cass; Trevor McDonald and Edward Stourton later hosted.
In 1988 ITN Morning News launched in the UK, with an hour‑long slot at 05:00 GMT that preceded Good Morning Britain. About halfway through, a domestic edition of Super Channel News titled ITN World News was shown, using the same presenters. After the Gulf War, the morning edition of ITN World News was reduced to a 05:30 GMT slot and continued in various forms for years, until the morning program was retired in the 2010s.
In 1993 Super Channel was bought by General Electric and renamed NBC Super Channel, bringing NBC programming to the channel. ITN World News was renamed ITN World News, and NBC News programs appeared on the channel mostly as non‑live inserts, while ITN kept the live headlines. The program grew to a full hour but stayed in the 21:00 GMT slot. In 1996 the channel became NBC Europe, and in 1998 NBC Europe ceased broadcasting, with ITN World News ending in the UK on the channel’s final day.
From 1992 to 1998, ITN made a deal with WLIW to bring ITN World News to U.S. public television. In 1998 WNET, the PBS member station for New York, arranged a London‑based version called ITN World News For Public Television. It debuted on 2 November with a new set, new music and host Daljit Dhaliwal, but was canceled at the end of 2001 due to funding. WNET later launched Worldfocus (2008–2010) in a similar vein, but it didn’t last long.
The program also aired on Nine Network in Australia during the late 1980s and 1990s, on TVNZ in New Zealand from 1990 to 1995, and in Malta on TVM Malta, often with local introductions.
ITN World News started as a pan‑European news service, but over the years it changed formats and networks and ultimately ended in the early 2000s.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 12:49 (CET).