The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

I guess it would depend on the nature of the fault. In the Shropshire case, if the first programme of the day has a problem then I'd imagine that staying with Five Live which has been sustaining overnight is the easiest thing to do.

I'd be surprised at Five Live being put to air automatically if a programme fell off the air, due to a fault or evacuation or similar, there should be an emergency "tape" both at the studio and the transmitter sites which would kick in either automatically or manually.

No Les Ross next Saturday WM Breakfast(he's opening the Warley Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC!)

Instead a certain young lady with a metal detecting fixation will be presenting instead!

WM's Eve Jackson 'appeared' via a phone link on MT tonight, to report on some breaking news of someone being held hostage (I think) somewhere in Brum.

Those of you with long memories will remember Eve as a MT reporter about a couple of years or so ago.

I saw the 22:50 Central News (West) for the first time in ages last night (Thurs 30th Nov). The "window" had yet another Birmingham backdrop I've not previously seen. It was of the Centenary Square type area, seemingly from a camera on the Birmingham Central Library rooftop, looking towards where the Birmingham Wheel used to be, and with that "Oxford-esque" looking small cylindrical building in the foreground.

[quote="Work of Artifice"]"Oxford-esque" looking small cylindrical buildingquote]
You mean the war memorial

Okay, so I don't have a clue what anything is! I always was an ignoramus!

Actually, now you mention it, I think there was a poppy wreath by that building when I walked past it yesterday! How dumb could I possibly be?

Doolan & Chinnie live double act in the public space at the Mailbox today, as they accepted your donations for the WM xmas toy appeal.

Next Saturday, Jenny Jones is down the Molienux, while Cayte Walker is at Bescot Staduim, to accept your toys, before the respective matches.

Slight change to WM programming on Sunday evening from now on.

From 1900 till 2200, it's Nikki Tapper Gospel, then Wilkesy with Soul between 2200 & 0000, then it's 'Your Space' until 0100.

But what of WCR, I hear you ask? (Tumbleweed etc etc)

It's now digital & online only between 1900 & 2000 instead!

Toodle pip!

'Tis true, we are (on WM) now exclusively on DAB. Trailblazing the FM/DAB split... remember we were the first to do it 3 years ago now.

Also, there's a possibility that there might be more instances of this sort of split in the future too...

What tumbleweed?

BTW: WCR is not just on WM you know... Check out www.wcr1350.co.uk and www.wcrfm.com

I wonder whether CNwest will bother updating their full-length titles, to include at least one Herefordshire clip?

The existing titles seem quite Birmingham-centric to me. I don't recognise where all of the clips in the titles were filmed, but there's definately a plural number of Birmingham ones (Bullring, Spaghetti Junction, Symphony Hall...) and seemingly only "token" representation of the region's other counties. Hopefully, at least one Brum clip will be sacrificed to make way for Herefordshire, but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't bother...

They wouldn't even necessarily have to have bothered going out to film clips of the new area. Presumably there's at least one Herefordshire clip in the now defunct CNsouth titles, that can be re-used? So, there's no excuse for CNwest to not bother, IMHO!

Incidentally, have any of the CNwest bulletins so far today included a "welcome to Herefordshire viewers" message? The 6pm show had better do!

A Michelle Robinson presented the Breakfast bulletins this morning...

Loved the OTT announcement at the start of Central Tonight West:

"Live from the ITV studios in the heart of Birmingham and serving the West Midlands, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and now Herefordshire... this is Central Tonight"

LOL - perhaps central east should do something similar