ITV Weather

ITV Weather

Type	TV weather forecasts
Genre	UK weather
Founded	13 February 1989 (1989-02-13)
Founder	ITV Network
Headquarters	London, England
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Manali Lukha (Head of Weather)
Parent	ITN, Met Office
Divisions	ITV Regional Weather
Website	itv.com/weather

ITV Weather is the national and regional forecast shown on UK terrestrial network ITV, and is provided by the Met Office (except the Channel Islands forecast, which is provided by the Jersey Meteorological Department). Bulletins are usually broadcast after every ITV News and ITV regional bulletin. Jon Mitchell is the longest serving forecaster after 28 years with ITV Weather.

Overview

The national bulletin launched on 13 February 1989, and previously featured the longest sponsorship deal on UK terrestrial TV to date, Powergen (later renamed E.ON) being the sponsor from shortly after the launch until the end of 2007, when it was revealed that insurance firm esure/Sheilas' Wheels was to replace E.ON as the sponsor of ITV's national weather bulletins (except in Northern Ireland, where it was sponsored by Gocompare.com from January 2008 until December 2009). From January to July 2010, insurance comparison site Confused.com were the weather sponsor (except in central and northern Scotland, where it was sponsored by Specsavers. During August 2010, the weather was shown without a sponsor for the first time since mid-1989. The weather forecast was later sponsored by Topps Tiles from Autumn 2010 until December 2011, when The Co-operative Food took over. The ITV National Weather was without a sponsor between 1 January and 29 February 2012. The following day, UK vitamin and health supplement supplier Seven Seas began sponsoring the forecasts on ITV and UTV between 1 March 2012 and 30 April 2014. From 1 May until 2 November 2014, the National Weather sponsor on ITV and UTV was Vitabiotics. From 3 November 2014 to 1 February 2015, the National Weather on ITV and UTV was sponsored by Worcester Bosch Group. Glasses company Crizal UV were the sponsors from 2 February to 20 June 2015. Between 21 June 2015 and 3 July 2016, Green Flag were sponsors of the National Weather. Between 4 July 2016 - 28 February 2018, the National Weather on ITV, STV and UTV was sponsored by SSE.^[1] The national weather sponsorship didn’t appear on screen for a week, believed to be linked due to extreme weather and additional air time required. It returned on 5 March 2018. From 9 July 2018 onwards, Checkatrade became the national sponsor along with them being the main sponsor for the weather during Good Morning Britain. As of the 10 0ctober 2018, it is sponsored by Halfords, who also sponsor the Channel 4 Weather.

Graphics

On 3 October 2016, new weather graphics were introduced. These new weather graphics are easier to understand and better in-depth. These graphics are also used on Good Morning Britain in their weather updates as well as regional news.

National weather presenters

Regions/nations weather presenters

Most presenters frequently cover other neighbouring regions when the usual team are unavailable/on holiday. Some presenters cover regions whilst not presenting their own region.

Notes

References

External links

• ITV Weather at itv.com