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Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands (September 2004)

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PC
Philip Cobbold
Nick Harvey posted:
Philip Cobbold posted:
the physical broadcasting of the channel to the central region comes from Leeds.

Except for Central South which has been played out by the South Bank since the Thames Valley pseudo-region was created.

That's because the Whitely circuit goes into the South Bank, so they control both the Hannington and Oxford transmitter feeds.

It's easier (and cheaper) to dual feed the occasional "Central" regional programme to both the South Bank and Leeds for playout, rather than dual feed every single news bulletin, so Central South (Thames Valley North) is played out by the South Bank.

Well if we're going to start getting technical about it, then yes that is very true.
AS
asiancutie123
yawn yawn
RM
Roger Mellie
asiancutie123 posted:
yawn yawn


You should go to bed earlier. Mind you, beauty sleep has never done me much good.
LO
lovelight
The Midlands Today YouTube website has been updated with the school of rock videos and a special bonus behind the scenes video too
www.youtube.com/midlandstoday
WE
Westy2
Bit of WM news now.

Most of Monday appears to be taken up with coverage of the Championship play off final at 'New' Wembley. (WBA v Derby)

From flicking through the RT earlier in the local Asda, it seems that the schedule runs as follows :

5am Mollie Green, as normal(though as a regular listener, that's a matter of opinion!)

7am Franksy & Regan @ Breakfast, presumbly live from somewhere(Tech ops are up early then if that's the case!)

9 or 10am(can't remember!) Daz Hale, again live OB.

12pm Nikki Tapper, again OB

3pm Match coverage

7pm Jimmy Franks

From yesterday, plus Tuesday to Friday, its 'Daz & Jo @ Breakfast' while Upton's off (again! Is it me or is he always off?).

Boyden's doing cover on evenings too!

Nikki Tapper's drawn the short straw for the Saturday afternoon summer show this year.

Spare a thought for Jane France as the Shrews have lost today, in the League 2 Final!
TV
tvmercia Founding member
this weeks saturday evening mail re-printed an edition from 1980, sadly they didn't include the tv listings though. however there were two telly related snippets ...
http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/eveningmail-westward.jpg

given westward's subsequant performance during the franchise round that followed, one assumes the shareholders didn't get their way!
WE
Westy2
Hmm the Mailbox newsroom seem to be a bit late this morning both on telly & on radio!

The 625 started with most of BBC London's bulletin, before swopping to the last minute of Ashley Blake, while no one told Mollie there was no WM news bulletins at 6am & 630am!

(I suggested by text that if she'd been told early enough, she could've swopped to 5 live instead!)

Today's breakfast was Jimmy Franks, with inserts from Paul Franks & co at Wembley.

Now it's Daz Hale, with the Fools Panel for starters, live from the Moulon Cafe there.

According to Jane France, it was cheaper for a meal deal at £8, than a £5 burger at Wembley!

8 days later

TV
tvmercia Founding member
this week's 8pm news updates are presented by suzanne alone, with regional news (not national), then weather, then celeb story (paris hilton's mug shot today)

seemed far smoother to me - rather than all the handing back between suzanne and natasha
WE
Westy2
tvmercia posted:
this week's 8pm news updates are presented by suzanne alone, with regional news (not national), then weather, then celeb story (paris hilton's mug shot today)

seemed far smoother to me - rather than all the handing back between suzanne and natasha


Well, if they made the proper version switching back & forth, it would increase the chance of London popping up by mistake, so I'll agree with you there!

Quick Plug for BBC Local Radio please!

How does the other Natasha/Suzanne 8pm opt work?

Does Brum opt out then take a feed from N6 itself?

By the way, I was half asleep this morning, but did I hear Mollie say Doolan was abroad at the moment, so someone else was doing his show, or did I imagine it?
WE
Westy2
Punam Verma's off to Dubai!

Didn't know she was back in the first place!

I thought she'd gone to America.

Mollie said she had a weird dream last night.

She was out with friends, but knew she was in a dream, so threw herself off a building! Rolling Eyes (I know !)

My response by text was 'Are u feeling weird? Never noticed the difference! Laughing'

Aren't I naughty ?
WE
Westy2
Got the day off today, so I'm 'Listening Again' to Mollie at the moment, as I missed the live transmission.

So far she's moaned about her wisdom teeth hurting & she's admitted starting to watch this series of BB, despite vowing never to watch it again!

Anyone heard this TWIT slot yet? (This Week's Interesting Things!)

The one I've heard today(which you can hear on the WM website until Monday morning!) was bloody hilarious.

Eg.Cayte offering 'Bill Clinton' a lift back to his hotel, via the garage, so 'George' the radio car's exhaust can be fixed was mad! (As is the typical woman calling a car by a name. Either Mollie or Cayte are the sort to name their cars!)

Who's this Phil Williams geezer sitting in for Doolan then?
MO
morgaineofevil
I'll tell you what i did see briefly the other day east midlands today they do like to change their seits every 18 months don't they!!! i cant seem to find the east midlands thread either??amny idea which page its on??

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