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307:, which would normally be broadcast at or close to 17:00. At the end of the news segment, the newscaster would hand over to a sports specialist, usually Graham Miller or David Bobin, for a roundup of the day's sports news, focussing heavily on football. This would include a full classified check, initially with Bob Colston continuing in his role, but later Miller, Bobin or whoever was presenting the bulletin would read it. 24: 256:
Typically, the programme would begin with Welsby giving the latest scores, and in later years some goal action, followed by match reports from ITV commentators at the games, as well as from reporters working for various independent local radio stations around Britain, such as Tom Ross from
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Football was always the predominant sport covered in the programme, though until the 1988/89 season, results of other sports, especially rugby union, cricket and snooker, also featured. Following ITV's contract to live and exclusive coverage of the
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s demise, ITV committed itself to broadcast sport on Saturday afternoons, albeit as stand-alone programmes rather than as a magazine show. Typically, this would begin around midday with British wrestling (formerly a teatime staple on
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from the start of the 1988/89 season, the programme focussed almost entirely on football, and also included goal action from the day's matches, where video could be transported to the studios for broadcast in time.
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was axed mid-season in 2003, and around this time ITN stopped providing a full classified check on the teatime news, though brief clips and major stories from the day's football remained.
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channel, but by now it went off air prior to a full classified check, which was still part of the ITV News teatime news bulletin.
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network from 2 January 1965 to 28 September 1985. At around 16:45, when football matches across Britain were starting to finish,
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featured results and reports from the Premier League, but actual action was restricted to goals from the lower divisions, as
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was formed in 1992, and therefore the decision was made to end the programme at the conclusion of the 1991/92 season.
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The ITN teatime classified results check continued into the new millennium, but from 1998, the newly launched
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From the start of the 1992/93 seasons, several ITV regions broadcast their own programmes called
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programme, so ITV chose to incorporate a football round-up into the teatime news bulletin from
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programme that ran from October 1985 until the end of the 1991/92 football season on the
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region. In its early years, the theme tune was a variant of the 1983
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still had access to the three remaining Football League divisions.
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would begin. Horse racing coverage, previously an integral part of
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network late on Saturday afternoons during the football season.
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The programme began as a segment in the long-running programme
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theme, though two other themes were used in later years.
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ITV lost the rights to top-flight football when the
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