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marksi 21 April 2005 12:57pm

dodrade posted:

Is it because people from northern ireland can identify with people from the north of england better than those from london?

I don't know. That, however is a different argument. To bring it back to news, I don't know why UTV Live has more viewers than Newsline. I suspect the timing plays a big part in it, but that can't be the only reason. The gap between the two programmes is not as much as it was a year ago, but is still significant.

19 days later

Londoner 9 May 2005 11:56pm

Greg Dyke picked up on this BBC press release in his Independent column last week, and in today's Media supplement there's a letter from David Mannion refuting the claims made by the BBC and pointing out that the gap between the BBC's and ITV's regional news ratings has narrowed considerably.

11 days later

morgaineofevil 20 May 2005 12:23am

Have most of the BBC regions had a refit then?

I know BBC LOOK NORTH NE&C has now been done and Wales earier this year!
I think South Today could do with a bit of a new look, its credits and titles look v dated compared to the other regions who all seem to have new remixed titles apart from Spotlight and EMT who have kept the old titles.

MarkN Founding member 20 May 2005 8:07am

Mortimer Cross posted:

In the South West its reach and share were double that of its commercial rival.

This does not surprise me; IMO the standard of Westcountry Live went downhill very rapidly when Carlton/ITV cut the programme's length to 30 minutes.

(April 2005)