BBC Regions Watch

This has always confused me - the Leeds gallery does all the fancy sports animations on the Superleague Show but day-to-day they just don't use it. Will it just be that the Look North production team aren't trained to use it?

Only time you see animation is on the sports graphics on Look North - they animate properly between slides.

Re BBC Midlands.

While they use the national style black on white astons for the usual reports, albeit fading on & off, how come when Shefali goes on location, her bits use the old style left hand large LIVE aston & the small right hand LOCATION aston?

Anyone else agree that the straps for the regional shows would look neater if the red bit just said BBC News? NWT's look particularly ugly.

I'd imagine it's to avoid clashing with the maps? Or some technical reason to do with whichever DVE effect they use to show both Shef and her map meaning they can't also do the new location aston.

That would make the DOG on Newsline look a bit silly, Basically the 'line' would remain a transparent DOG while the "BBC News" formed part of the strap. For some reason the sign off of 'BBC News' was scrapped years ago (I thought a shame as it made it easier for News channel or national news to use regional reports) and each regional program requires it's own identity separate from the national output.

It also helped on those occasions where two neighbouring regions used the same report.

having three programmes called Look North, each with a significant overlap, helps with that too!