Best and Worst Regional Titles and Themes

That used to be quite common. The nightly programmes were more regional magazine shows with some news rather than a full news bulletin that we're used to now.

Sourthern's Day by Day and Westward Diary are good examples, they had the news read from a seperate news desk while the main presenter did the more featurey stuff:

I think the Newyddion opener managed to get in more locations than any other titles period. Great too how it progresses from local to national and then international.

Always thought this was a good one from Reporting Scotland during the 2017 Election when the program went half hourly after the 10 o'clock news.

In the case of Day by Day, the news slot was also the point were there was an opt out for SE news, presented from Southampton's IVC studio?

Unless it was on a Friday (or in later years, on a Wednesday as well) as it would have been Scene South East / Scene Midweek from Dover with a (pre-recorded?) news summary from Southampton.

Blimey, the theme music to Westward Diary sounds as though it's straight from the "Potter's Wheel Interlude" from the 1950s

Yes, I'm sure 'bluecortina' will clarify, but I think that was the case. There was often a pregnant pause when the news was introduced, to allow the split to occur.

Yes, and totally inappropriate as a background to, ' A woman dies as fire sweeps through a council house in Somerset'.

Not that similar crassness doesn't happen today

Actually, the track is called Ticker Tape, and it was recorded by Sidney Torch & His Orchestra.

Fantastic thread!

I must admit to a soft spot for these Calendar titles complete with bizarre CGI shapes flying all over the place (4:56).

Although it still sounds a lot more appropriate than the theme tune ITN used at the time


If that's the case in my example above then the the newsreader gets introduced by Crispy so either there wasn't one or those in the South East got someone else turning up.

Incidently, something I hadn't noticed on that Day by Day clip first time I watched it was the odd choice of clip for the Carol Drinkwater headline... that's a very basic TV no-no

Yes ! Although it might have been that the SE version was a pre record (see, nothing new with that idea !) with Peter Clark too ?

It's an interesting example, I don't think I've seen any regional programme that gives so many mentions and stories for Basingstoke