The ITV News Channel was a 24 hour television news channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 2000 to 2005. It was available on Sky Digital, NTL:Telewest, Freeview (latterly only between 6am and 6pm) and Analogue Cable presenting the latest national and international news stories plus regular business, sport, entertainment and weather summaries. Priority was usually given to the latest breaking news stories. There was also an added focus on UK stories, by drawing on the resources of the ITV network's regional newsrooms.

The channel launched on 1 August 2000 as a joint venture between ITN and NTL as the "ITN News Channel". In June 2002, Carlton Television and Granada Television - the predecessors of ITV plc - bought out ITN's 65 per cent stake. This led to a rebrand as the ITV News Channel in September 2002. In April 2004, the newly created ITV plc bought NTL's 35 per cent stake to assume full control of the channel.

As the ITN News Channel, the channel was broadcast from a small studio with accommodation for only one presenter at a time. When relaunched as the ITV News Channel, they initially used the standard ITV News studio of the time, which was built for fixed length bulletins only so the style of presentation was always much more basic than that of its competitors.

From February 2004, the channel came into its own and relaunched. Along with the rest of ITV News, the channel was presented from the so-called 'theatre of news' set (below, left), with logo above, which is a vast virtual studio. The studio allowed presentation from either behind a desk or from presenters walking around the studio, using the newswall to fully explain a story with the use of graphics. For the first time 2 presenters could present the channel together which lead to a much improved service.

Due to the channel sharing facilities with ITV News bulletins on the ITV Network (which were also simulcast on the news channel), the channel had to move to other studios for around an hour before each ITV bulletin to allow for rehearsals. Initially a single locked off camera studio was used at these times which was very basic. Later the channel used a virtual reality studio at these times or following ITN's takeover of the production of London Tonight, that studio

News content and programming for the channel was provided by ITN.

On 15 June, 2007 ITN chief executive Mark Wood has said the company wouldn't rule out launching another 24-hour TV news channel.

Recently there has been speculation that cable group Virgin Media is considering launching its own news channel to rival Sky News and BBC News 24, with some reports suggesting it may look to partner with ITN.