Central News South Closure: 9th January 1989 - 3rd December 2006 - Page 6

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harshy Founding member 2 December 2006 10:34pm

so nice to see it was signed off with a Central cake endcap

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noggin Founding member 3 December 2006 1:22pm

Markymark posted:

Work of Artifice posted:

It is my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that MeridianWest currently story-shares much of northern Hampshire with MeridianSouth, but realistically virtually no-one in northern ampshire would be seeing MeridianWest???

In other words, MeridianWest "pretends" to cover northern Hampshire, so as to make its existence slightly more justifiable (otherwise it's basically "Berkshire Today").

Presumably, this will finally end on Monday??? (i.e. Thames Valley Tonight won't pretend to cover northern Hampshire)

Where did you get that idea from ? Hampshire's border extends up to the outskirts of Newbury itself.

The transmitter at Hannington is slap bang in the middle of N Hants, and for much of the area is the only signal available.

I live in Northern Hampshire, Meridian West most certainly does cover this area, and also mid Hants (last night's show featured an OB from Winchester). My compliant about them is they extend their area far too far east. They often cover stories in Windsor, Slough, and Heathrow. 99% of viewers in these areas use Crystal Palace, in fact I was in Windsor last night and didn't spot a single Hannington aerial there.

Though there ARE viewers in Berkshire (Maidenhead, Reading etc.) who do watch Hannington so that they get South Today and Meridian Tonight rather than BBC London and London Tonight (which are now quite poor apologies for news programmes - and seldom ever cover anything outside the M25...)

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Pete Founding member 3 December 2006 1:34pm

noggin posted:

Though there ARE viewers in Berkshire (Maidenhead, Reading etc.) who do watch Hannington so that they get South Today and Meridian Tonight rather than BBC London and London Tonight (which are now quite poor apologies for news programmes - and seldom ever cover anything outside the M25...)

I don't understand why London isn't split into sub regions. Taking into account it's population is higher than Scotland, you'd think it could split into a few opts.

Or is the whole of London on one transmitter?

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Markymark 3 December 2006 1:43pm

Hymagumba posted:

noggin posted:

Though there ARE viewers in Berkshire (Maidenhead, Reading etc.) who do watch Hannington so that they get South Today and Meridian Tonight rather than BBC London and London Tonight (which are now quite poor apologies for news programmes - and seldom ever cover anything outside the M25...)

I don't understand why London isn't split into sub regions. Taking into account it's population is higher than Scotland, you'd think it could split into a few opts.

Or is the whole of London on one transmitter?

Yes, only one main site, Crystal Palace. There are some relay stations just outside London with large population coverage, that could be used of opt-outs.

Guildford, Hemel H, Reigate, Hertford, High Wycombe spring to mind, though any of those would still be too small to host a viable service.

Noggin is quite correct though, both BBC and ITV London programmes ignore most events outside the M25, so it would make more sense to allocate these relays to other regions. In any case I believe that BBC 'Sky 101' mappings for BBC South, SE, and East are closer to London than terrestrial coverage might suggest.

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Steve in Pudsey 3 December 2006 4:20pm

harshy posted:

so nice to see it was signed off with a Central cake endcap

Get the feeling somebody was making a point by using that?

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South Today 3 December 2006 5:09pm

Steve in Pudsey posted:

harshy posted:

so nice to see it was signed off with a Central cake endcap

Get the feeling somebody was making a point by using that?

Who?

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Nelad 3 December 2006 6:42pm

MOVE ALONG NOW - NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

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RDJ 3 December 2006 6:48pm

And there we go... Central South now no longer exists. Just Fridays montage, A speech from Emma Jesson & Wesley in the new Thames Valley studio & Mark including a fade of the lights and that was that.

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tvmercia Founding member 3 December 2006 7:01pm

so that was the last ever central south ... one wonders how the last pan-central bulletin tomorrow morning in gmtv will be marked tomorrow

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Markymark 3 December 2006 7:02pm

RDJ posted:

And there we go... Central South now no longer exists. Just Fridays montage, A speech from Emma Jesson & Wesley in the new Thames Valley studio & Mark including a fade of the lights and that was that.

Yes; ... "over to Wesley in Studio 2" (and 75 miles down the A34/M3/M27)

They made a mention on Meridian News that from tomorrow there'd be a new show called Thames Valley Tonight, and a chance to win a Mini in a competition <wow>.

In signing off the presenter said, "and it's goodbye from Meridian", which might imply the Meridian (and Central) branding will vanish completely for Hannington and Oxford viewers, or maybe she just forgot to say 'news' ?

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Andrew Founding member 3 December 2006 7:11pm

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Nelad 3 December 2006 7:21pm

Andrew posted:

I never realised that Central News (South) used to be presented by the one and only Leslie Crowther (3rd pic down).

Central News South Closure

9th January 1989 - 3rd December 2006 (November 2006)