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Calendar is the local news programme for ITV Yorkshire. It began on 29 July 1968, the same day as Yorkshire Television (YTV) came on air.
Unlike many regional news programmes at that time Calendar adopted a magazine-style approach and benefited from heavy investment by Yorkshire Television in local news gathering.
During the early years, the Calendar title had been used by various programmes produced by YTV in both news and other genres, including the short-lived Good Morning Calendar breakfast show; the parliamentary programme Calendar Lobby; and Calendar Catwalk, a fashion show.
The name Calendar was also attached to the local version of the Channel 4 launch show, Countdown, which ran for one series on YTV before the start of Channel 4 as Calendar Countdown.
The main programme is called "Calendar". All other shorter bulletins are called 'Calendar News'
Calendar was a weekday news and information program that aired in the United States on CBS from 1961 to 1963.
Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett co-hosted the program. Each show began with Reasoner giving a summary of the latest news and then introducing the topic for the day, which was presented by Fickett.
CBS scheduled the half-hour program in the 10 a.m. timeslot on the East Coast. Since the network then believed women were the primary audience for daytime television, it created a substantive information program geared toward a female audience.
A review in TV Guide commended Reasoner for not oversimplifying the news and noted that Fickett contributed "as another intelligent questioner and commentator" rather than someone who just represented "the woman's side."
Calendar's topics were diverse, ranging from national politics to interior decorating.
The mood of the program was relaxed despite its serious ambition. During an interview with a designer of modern furniture, Reasoner asked, "What would you say if I said you were giving us 'fake simplicity'?" The designer responded, "I'd say you're being offensive."
And on a day when the topic was redrawing voting districts to equalize representation between urban and rural regions, Fickett introduced the segment by acknowledging it was a subject that "sounds weighty for this time of the morning" before assuring viewers that she herself had found it interesting.







