The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

i do hope the mis-spelling of my name was for comedic value or something, as i wish to have no colonial connections whatsoever. my name is so popular they even named a bus company, radio station and medieval kingdom after me.

Pehaps the Look Hull in-jokes here on TVF are going on a bit too much now?

(No, of course not! )

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Nice tweak to the endcap.

Sorry, but it isn't much of a joke when our licence is being waste... err... sorry... spent on the likes of LNH Although at a guess, a lot people in Hull probably don't bother with TV licences. Uuuur nuuur.

TVamerica was an ironic mistype, a tribute to a certain BBC broadcaster's tendency towards glaring blunders

Anyway that's got nothing to do with the price of eggs on this thread!

i don't understand how you [and admittedly many other members of this forum] not liking the programme immediately translates to it being a waste of licence fee payers money.

i do not listen to the asian network - it doesn't appeal to me. i have never listened to radio 3, its extremely boring ... however many other people do. the viewing figures for look hull are nothing to be sniffed at, i''m sure several other regions would look upon the figures with envy.

i think perhaps you should keep it in perspective. ok you don't like the show, yes peter is like alan partridge, but there's no need to get carried away with it. there isn't a range of voices calling for a shake up of the programme. it seems to be the lone voices several members of this forum (some of whom do not live in the area) vs healthy viewing figures.

right lets get back to the midlands chat ...

...erm, oh yes, how are we all celebrating tony butlers birthday tomorrow?

Shall we have a whip round to get him a new bike?

Or should that be a new Morgan?

It's not us personally (as individuals) "not liking it" that's the problem. The generic name that even the BBC themselves would use for the like of Midlands Today, Look North, etc, is "Regional News Magazine". The various shortcomings of Look Hull (e.g. lack of sport coverage, to name one random example) means it falls well short of delivering anything like the kind of service that most/all other BBC regions' TV news delivers.

In light of the way that the BBC is funded, for them to produce something that is by-and-large effectively more like just a "Magazine" programme (note the absence of the word "News" there), in leu of something that actually resembles a news service, is surprising. And it seems remarkable that they can "get away with it". That's a more accurate reflection of why it's such a hot topic for a lot of us TVForum-ers.

We don't think it's a "waste of money" as such (that would imply that we're suggesting that there shouldn't be anything on at all, and that Belmont-transmitter viewers should have a blank screen on BBC One from 6:30pm - 6:55pm. Which we're not).

EDIT: By the way, this post is meant in the spirit of being explanatory (sp?), rather than "having a go at you", tvmercia.

Very well put Brotherton Sands, I very much agree with you.

When I said:


.... I was being facetious at that point, just having a little bit of subversive fun! .

Of course LNH is better than nothing at all for BBC Belmont viewers at 18:30, but when you compare it with the likes of BBC Midlands Today or EMT, then LNH falls very short in many people's opnion.

I don't know about viewing figures, I don't have them at my disposal. However as somebody who has studied journalism in past, I feel that Calendar's news coverage is of a better standard than LNH .

Anyway I apologise for dragging the this thread off-topic!!

No Nick last night on MT, Mike Collie partnering Suzanne.

Caught the majority of WM's coverage of the 2nd leg of the Black Country too!

(In case you're wondering why I'm here at this moment, I've had the day off for a bit of personal business! Back in work tomorrow.)

My what makes you happy email got read out, Cats, computers and Chocolate

I have to say, MT usually do a good job at faking "live" OBs on the 6.30 but tonight's fake Ian Winter report failed to play - resulting in a pretty, well, cringeworthy episode all round.

David Gregory's report failed to play actualy, and ended up with the clip off the server of the 'live ob' frozen.

There playout is cocking up quite a bit over the past few weeks. Infact its always had its problems. The other day, the pre recorded headline sequence cocked up, and you heard the audio live from the studio. The screen cut to the graphics output, which was at the time, changing background colours. The titles failed to play too.