New BBC One North

I believe it's anywhere on the A1 that's north of Peterborough.

I've always taken the M4 as the dividing line 😎

And here are our map correspondents Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones to tell us more:

I would classify the north as being the following counties; Northumberland, Cumbria, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, what was Cleveland, North, South, West Yorkshire, East Ridings of Yorkshire, and Cheshire.

I use that as a guide, as I believe in the days of the old RFU Divisional championship, and in amateur days, when the divisions played touring sides, those counties were classified as the North by the RFU.

I would also include North Lincolnshire and NE Lincolnshire into that (i.e the former Humberside)

We are never going to nail down a definition of what the North is here, I suspect the BBC will have to just go by using the coverage from the transmitters that make up the four existing areas, even if some towns on the edge can't agree.
Will it be money well spent for the difference it will make on screen is the bigger question, and one that sadly won't be answered on this forum as the calendar counts down.

This is northern England:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England#/media/File%3ANorthern_England.svg

It consists of the "North West", "North East" and "Yorkshire and Humber" political regions.

Lincolnshire (except N and NE Lincs) is in the "East Midlands" and I doubt many people south of Lincoln would consider themselves as 'northern'!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England

So that settles it. Grimsby is in the Midlands......

No. The two districts of North and North East Lincolnshire are actually part of the "Yorkshire and Humber" government region.

Lincolnshire, except N and NE Lincs, is "East Midlands".

That first answer is a bit suspicious to me... I wonder why?

(And listen out for Jay voicing trailers on Dave)

I’ve mentioned this before, but I remember a question on Fifteen to One about a “bridge in the east of England”, the answer being the Humber Bridge. I probably wouldn’t have got the question right because I don’t consider Hull or what was Humberside to be in the “east of England” - to me that refers to East Anglia (roughly the current Anglia TV area). Geographically I suppose Hull is in the East, but by that definition so are Berwick and Dover!

Yes, it'll be because they are on the east coast.