The company's flagship programme, London Tonight launched three days later, replacing the previous separate news services provided by Thames and LWT.
The final edition of London Tonight produced by LNN was broadcast on 29 February 2004, following which, its news operation was absorbed into ITN.
Although primarily a news provider, LNN also produced non-news regional output for both its joint owners – ranging from current affairs (The London Programme), documentaries (First Edition) and features (After 5, The Weekend Show) to entertainment (Boot Sale Challenge, Big Screen), arts (Good Stuff) and children's programming (The Totally Friday Show, Food Factory) through its "LNN Factuals" division.
This meant that, uniquely for the time, the transmission controllers (later "network directors" – a change only in name) and the continuity announcers worked for different companies and answered to different management.
To this end, LNN operated two transmission feeds: one to the London transmitter at Crystal Palace and its dependent relays, and another to the other ITV control rooms around the country.
The network feed was known as "KRS-17/67" – referring to the circuits (17 the original analogue and 67 the latterday digital) allocated to it by BT Broadcast[2] between the South Bank and the BT Tower (The London Television Centre stands on a stretch of the South Bank known as the "King's Reach", and "KRS" an abbreviation for "King's Reach Studios").