BBC North West Tonight

BBC Liverpool website tells us its being presented from the 'Performance Space' at Hanover Street.

NWT Temporary Studio Webcam

Did they move to a different studio during the last revamp?

No they did it over a bank holiday I think and moved to the newsroom.

I seem to remember they presented the Friday late bulletin and weekend bulletins from the Newsroom.

The temporary set looks pretty awful, Gordon sat infront of what looks to be a cupboard.

I would think a cheap CSO of the view of Manchester would be much more cost effective and would look better.

I wonder what is under the black cloth?!

Anyone signed up for the newsletter that Gordon plugged tonight?

That's the shame of having a whole North West England Region being served by only one transmitter, if there were two it would make more sense to have a North West Tonight coming from Liverpool, but because of this the BBC have always kept (and are intending to) their Studios in Manchester.

But Granada gave it a go for 12 years I suppose, but it didn't make financial sense, but as mooted many times on here, why couldn't Granada have kept their Albert Dock Studios for the Granada Reports studio, keep a Newsroom in Manchester and redevelop the Quay Street area, something they've been trying to do for years.

Let's face it - when BBC North splits Leeds & Hull into two - and believes that Hull that can fill a 25 minute local news programme every day, there has to be a strong argument for splitting Manchester & Liverpool!!

That's not the point, it's not physically possible with the current transmitter situation.

Would the transmitter at Storeton on the Wirral be able to serve Liverpool with a localised programme? I know it is relaying the current signal to Merseyside, but does that mean it receives the signal from Winter Hill itself, and re-broadcasts it to its service area? I'm not 100% clear on relays, as I've only ever had to deal with Winter Hill.

What annoys me is that this 'move north' gives Manchester even more things. They could've at least given us the regional news base. Even just having the main afternoon and evening editions from Liverpool and keeping the other bulletins and the newsroom in Manchester would be something. It's well known that the arrangement is insulting to a lot of people in Liverpool and these few days of NWT in Liverpool are obviously some sort of goodwill gesture. I don't reckon they had to decamp to Liverpool, as they haven't done this during previous revamps.



Granada were worried about losing their license. Most of Granada's opponents used the Manchester-centric argument, particularly when franchise renewal was coming around. Not long after they secured the license in 1991, they moved Granada Tonight back to Manchester. Granada News remained for a few more years until around the time This Morning left.