The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

The BBC are coming to Bradford next week, with a pop up newsroom in The Broadway

BBC presenters will be in #Bradford next week as part of #BBCWeAreBradford week

Stories from and about the city will feature across the BBC

There will also be a pop-up newsroom at @TheBroadwayBrad from March 11th-15th, get hands on with our tech and meet our presenters. 📺 pic.twitter.com/5ameXyVOSF

— BBC North (@BBCNorthPR) March 5, 2019

I prepare to be surprised, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it was just a load of positive vox pops rather than tackling the real issues and just a tick box exercise to show that the BBC aren’t London biased after all.

Not really that much to do with Yorkshire but Luxmy did Saturday's BBC London News bulletin

There seems to be a theme with Leeds reporters covering Saturday shifts at BBC London. Ali Fortescue used to cover the reporting shift there while working at Look North and continues to occasionally cover there while freelance.

That’s all it will be, the problem really Bradford is too close to Leeds and all the big jobs are there, so Bradford will always play second fiddle, personally I’m just glad they filled that dreadful hole after years of having it.

There was literally no news at all on Look North tonight, no round up back in the studio, no round up of the weekend’s sport, nothing.

We did get the weather though.

They even opened the bulletin with an opening shot featuring the bbc Look North logo on the screen In Gil Sans!

Just caught the most extraordinary report on Levy's Late Look North. Reporter Philip Norton reporting on his own dads' death at the hands (allegedly) of a local hospital trust. How can this be impartial and how the hell did it get through the producer guidelines?

Was it me or did the Leeds 1830 bulletin feel like an extended CiN opt? However one good thing about the bulletin was the OB cameras are an improvement on the studio cameras.

'We've come to Bradford to focus on Good News, however it's Monday and the first day here, so we haven't got any yet, so we are just going to waffle on and on'.

As someone who has lived in Bradford for years, that was terrible!

Was anyone in Bradford yesterday? All the programmes came from the studio

Amy was on an OB in Bradford

Good grief. That's serious and shows a total lack of editorial savviness to say the least.