The first ever ITV Evening News - that is, the day's new early main bulletin on the channel, News at Ten having just been ditched - presented by Trevor McDonald on Monday, 8th March, 1999. Top stories seem to include disbelief that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown would dare to use a computer or two to prepare for tomorrow's budget; footage of Andy Elson and Colin Prescot crash-landing their hot air balloon; Prince Charles visiting Argentina; Yorkshire floods, and more.

This marked a major departure for ITV and ITN, and the changes in scheduling for the day's news (this went out at 6.30pm) were highly-publicised and ultimately unpopular. We also start to see the beginning of style over substance in the case of Ros Childs walking through a fairly-advanced-for-the-era virtual studio full of graphics and diagrams and stuff, not to mention the fact that a lot of the news, well, isn't. There's speculation and talk of what's going to happen, but a couple of stories with what I'd judge to have higher news values - the death of Joe DiMaggio, and Bernard Ingham being bound over - get less than David Hempleman-Adams making his way to base camp ahead of his mission to the geomagnetic North Pole (which I think proved unsuccessful).

There's a moderately interesting piece on young female smokers and a bit about GM food, but you know what's really mad? 'Monica Mania'. I know she was promoting a book she'd recently not written, but just stop and think for a moment: why? What was it that granted her such celebrity status? Was it in any way proportionate? Absolutely mad. Anyway, there are also some promos, ads, and a weather forecast to look out for so make use of the chapters if you like.

0:00 Promos and ads
6:39 ITV Evening News part 1
19:05 Ads
20:08 ITV Evening News part 2
32:15 Weather
34:14 Promos

And, having edited and uploaded this, I've just noticed that some of the stuff at the start is actually from around the edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from the previous night. Never mind. Bonus content.

Grateful thanks to @David315842 for sending me this tape.

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