Back row: Robert Hall, Roger Greenwood, Richard Madeley and Huw Weekes; Middle row: Sita Gunaratne and Marylyn Webb; Front row: Geoff Druett, Richard Whiteley and Alan Hardwick.
Calendar first aired on the launch day of Yorkshire Television (Monday 29 July 1968). The first presenter was Jonathan Aitken.
In later years, it was hosted by Richard Whiteley (until 1995, alongside his duties on Countdown, earning him the nickname “Twice Nightly Whiteley”), Austin Mitchell (until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977), Marylyn Webb, Christa Ackroyd and Mike Morris.
On 28 March 1977, Yorkshire Television launched a six-week breakfast television experiment – Good Morning Calendar (a name later reused for its regional news programme, Good Morning Britain) – which is credited as the first breakfast television programme in the UK.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Calendar’s main evening programme was joined by lunchtime and late-night bulletins on weekdays. Weekend bulletins were introduced in June 1988.
In the latter part of the 1980s, Calendar expanded its lunchtime bulletin into a half-hour magazine show, Calendar Lunchtime Live.
The programme was scrapped in early 1988 but reintroduced for a short period during 2001.
Since its launch, the programme has been produced at ITV Yorkshire’s main studios in Kirkstall Road, Leeds.
Newsreader Huw Weekes died in 2001 at the age of 43.
Richard Whiteley died on 26 June 2005 at Leeds Infirmary. He was 61. Marylyn Webb died in 2014. She was 66. Austin Mitchell died on 18 August 2021, aged 86.
Presenters
Jonathan Aitken
Richard Whiteley
Austin Mitchell
Marylyn Webb
Christa Ackroyd
Liz Fox
Richard Madeley
Geoff Druett
Huw Weekes
Alan Hardwick
Mike Morris
In later years, it was hosted by Richard Whiteley (until 1995, alongside his duties on Countdown, earning him the nickname “Twice Nightly Whiteley”), Austin Mitchell (until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977), Marylyn Webb, Christa Ackroyd and Mike Morris.
In the latter part of the 1980s, Calendar expanded its lunchtime bulletin into a half-hour magazine show, Calendar Lunchtime Live.
Presenters
