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ITV News Meridian
ITV News Meridian is the regional news programme for the ITV Meridian region and part of the ITV Central region, serving South East England.
The news service is produced and broadcast from ITV Meridian's studios in Whiteley, near Fareham with reporters also based at bureaux in Didcot, Brighton, Maidstone, Poole and Reading. The programme is currently EDF Programme of the Year for London and the South East (for coverage of the 70th anniversary of D-Day) and the Royal Television Society's Southern Centre
are branded "Daybreak Meridian News", are also used in the region. The sub-regions retain their own local advertisements.
In 2013, following a network wide rebrand of ITV, the long-standing "Meridian Tonight" brand was retired and replaced by "ITV News Meridian". On 23 July 2013, proposals to reintroduce some elements of the sub-regional services were approved by Ofcom. As a result, "ITV News Meridian" now also produces separate breakfast, lunchtime and weekend bulletins for the South