[Stooky Bill]

Thanks for the clarification. Wasn't IRN owned by the commercial stations in the 1970s?

Not sure how ownership of it worked but it was part of LBC until sometime in the late 80s. Originally it was a feed of LBC sent to the network for the hourly bulletins, later it was a seperate feed(s) delivered by satellite via a company based in the Euston Centre next to Capital. In the 90s it was supplied by ITN and then Sky got the contract in the 2000s.

There can't be many places to hear the IRN hourly bulletins now, Global and Bauer do their own and there's few other stations left