The forerunner to ITN's long-running 'News At Ten' was 'Dateline'. Dateline covered (usually) only one story, in a greater depth than could be managed by the bulletins of the day.

Running Monday to Thursday, it was usually preceded by a 2-minute round-up of the headlines. On Friday, there was 'Roving Reports' giving 25 minutes of international news, followed by Dateline Westminister with political discussion.

The night-time news bulletin, Dateline, Roving Reports and Dateline Westminister were 'merged' and given a permanent time-slot when ITN introduced 'News At Ten' in 1967.