"News at Ten" developed a solid reputation for its extensive coverage of international news stories. Foreign correspondent Sandy Gall, the first ITN journalist to cover the start of the Vietnam War in 1965, returned there on several occasions to produce reports for "News at Ten" until he was forcibly removed from the country following the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Michael Nicholson reported in-depth on the 1976 Soweto uprising for "News at Ten", and later went on to cover the Falklands War in 1982, after which he was awarded the South Atlantic Medal for his work. "News at Ten", by now the UK's most popular news programme, ultimately forced the BBC to follow ITN's lead and extend its own programming to match, although Lord Annan declared in his 1977 "Committee into the Future of Broadcasting", "We subscribe to the generally held view that ITN has the edge over BBC News."