Local TV in Lincoln

Just wondered what services they receive in Lincoln. Is it BBC Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire and Calendar? I reckon the ITV service is Calendar. However, the BBC Lincolnshire service, despite the name, gives the impression that it serves only north Lincolnshire. Help please!

Here's a list of all the BBC regional news programmes you can get from Lincoln:

Look North from Hull (Helen and Peter) via Belmont
Look North from Leeds (Harry and Christa) via Emley Moor
East Midlands Today (Anne and Dominic) via Waltham and the Lincoln Central transmitter.

Cheers but is there not one service which is the 'official' news service for Lincoln? For example, which one actually covers Lincoln stories and claims to be the news service for Lincoln? I'm finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that one street in Lincoln may be watching entirely different news programmes door-to-door! However, the fact that East Midlands Today broadcasts from the 'Lincoln Central' transmitter would lead me to believe that the official news programme is East Midlands Today! More confused than ever!!

i wish that was all i had to worry about.

Mainly, it's Look North in Hull and East Midlands Today that 'share' Lincoln as it's in an overlap area. Reports about Lincoln are shared between both programmes, as are a lot of reports from southern Lincolnshire.

Katherine's right, though generally you can split the town into three to work out what people generally watch.

In the west and centre, people get Waltham
In the north, people get Emley Moor (and miss out on local news) and/or Waltham
In the south and east, people get Belmont and/or local relay Lincoln Central (carries EMT and Calendar East, no channel 5, serves very few people).

NTL cable here carry East Midlands and Central East on 101 and 103, while North and Yorkshire are on 750 and 751.

Radio Lincolnshire is tied to Nottingham, while the north of the county is served by Radio Humberside.

Bottom line is that the transmitter networks were planned in order to get the country covered, not to cover it so that regional services covered politically convenient areas.

From my many visits to the city, I have seen an Emley-pointer south of the city, between Bracebridge Heath and the city centre (possibly Canwick Hill). There are also a couple of Emley-pointers as you wend your way up the main shopping street just prior to Steep Hill. It's interesting to note that the Lincoln Ridge screens nearly all of Lincolnshire east of Lincoln totally from Emley Moor. The dividing boundary between being able or unable to get Emley Moor is the A607 road between Leadenham, through places like Wellingore, Navenby, Harmston and Waddington to Lincoln city centre.

As for Belmont and Waltham, from my sad aerial observations, it's pretty evenly matched between them throughout the city. I think the favoured setup is a 2-way Belmont/Waltham configuration. As for the Lincoln Central relay, I've only ever seen ONE building with a vertically polarised aerial pointing to it - it was between Steep Hill's top and Beaumont Fee where the County Council offices are!!

I used to see many when I lived around Stamp End, some with big aerials that just about got Belmont.

I live in the West End now, with an Emley/Waltham (isn't that a character from Friends?) setup.