BBC News: Nations & Regions

I have a question re: Ridge Hill in northern Gloucestershire. (West of England versus West Midlands). I'm not technically minded, so forgive me...

When ITV made the regional changes, the trailer with Lisa Aziz and Steve Scott telling north Gloucestershire viewers to retune their TV sets, to avoid being stuck with the irrelevent Central West, raised a question in my mind.

Lisa and Steve said something like like: "Tune your TV to channel 30 and save it on button 3". Yes, I realise that "channel 30" is "channel" as in "frequency", not as in "TV station". But...

The "...on button 3" part sounds like it's only applicable to analogue terrestrial (?). Freeview doesn't use the different channels/buttons on your actual physical TV set. The whole of Freeview is effectively "on one channel" on your TV set (the "AV" channel normally?), and the individual "Freeview channel numbers" only exist within Freeview's own EPG, right? Freeview is exactly like Sky/cable (etc) in this respect, right?

So, does all that mean that Freeview viewers in north Gloucestershire weren't able to re-tune, and therefore are still stuck with irrelevent Central West? Or is there also a way of manually retuning a single "channel/station" (i.e. ITV1) on Freeview? (If so, how (just as a matter of curiosity)?)

If ITV have been able to split Ridge Hill up on Freeview already, then presumably what they've already done is what the BBC will also do, post-DSO?

I understand that all non-terrestrial (e.g. Sky, Virgin, etc) viewers in north Gloucestershire are already on West of England (BBC and ITV) as it's all done by postcode or something?

But, I was just curious as to how they could ensure that all terrestrial viewers (analogue and/or Freeview) can all get their intended region?

Cheers.

ITV1 West from Ridge Hill is only available on analogue currently, so yes, it's just Central on Freeview.

When analogue is switched off, Ridge Hill will broadcast both regions on Freeview using an extra multiplex. It will also start broadcasting BBC One West as well as Midlands.

Back to S4C, apologies if I've missed this but has Newyddion switched to the new BBC branding yet?

You've missed it Brekkie. Go back to the top of the last page. They're still using the old branding.

Looks like someone in Norwich hit the wrong button. A split screen of Suzy in the studio and an OB in North Walsham was shown on screen for about 30 seconds. Looked like Suzy had no idea that it happened.

Thanks. They're taking their time with that then.

Is it only Wales Today thats streamed live online at 6:30pm or do other regions stream live too?

Reporting Scotland certainly don't

Rather surprising to see Andrew Cropper presenting the 20:00 summary for BBC Look East (Norwich) fully suited as well.

We had a new presenter for the Look North update. It was a woman with dark hair in a bob style. Her name was Christine something, she had quite a deep voice.

Which Look North ????

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