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In 1992, Trevor was promoted as the sole presenter of News at Ten and became one of the most decorated faces on British television screens. He stayed with ITN when news at ten was axed in the year 1999. Moving to present the new ITV Evening News. News at Ten was briefly relaunched on 22 January 2001, to which McDonald returned as a presenter.
He presented the ITV News at 10.30 following News at Ten’s second axing. Trevor hosted ITV’s flagship current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald from 1999-2007. The show was revived in 2010 with presenter Julie Etchingham.
McDonald presented his last ITV News bulletin on 15 December 2005. The veteran newsreader stepped down from his role as anchor after more than 30 years at ITN but said he had no plans to retire completely from television. At the end of the final programme, he signed off with the words:
“That brings to an end my association with the news at 10.30. Thank you for watching.”
Over the closing titles of the last bulletin that McDonald presented, the November 1992 to March 1999 ITV News at Ten theme was played as a tribute to him. On 31 October 2007, ITV announced that, early in 2008, McDonald would come out of retirement to present the relaunched News at Ten together with Julie Etchingham.
It was announced on 30 October 2008 that McDonald would step down from News at Ten once the 2008 US presidential election was over, to be replaced by Mark Austin. His last bulletin was on 20 November 2008. It was reported at the time that he would continue to present links for The Tonight Programme.
