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??
There is no active East Midlands thread,;or if there is, it is buried deep within the archives The usual practice is to post things about BBC EMT or CNE on this thread. Usually comments on those programmes are in comparison with BBC Midlands or CNW anyway.
I think I'm the only person on here who watches CNE still, and no seems to give a toss about BBC EMT I think those in Lincs prefer to watch his Levyness rather than BBC EMT, for the comedy value of the former
According to Wm's Mollie Green, Jimmy Franks also turned up at the Mailbox, to 'present' the Early Show, as well as herself!
A texter in Coventry told Mollie that C & W were still on 5 live at 645am!
Was Jimmy Franks supposed to do the Coventry show & went to Brum by mistake?
Any BBC types got any answers, as I'm curious!
MO
morgaineofevil
Thanks for that. I couldn't remember if there was one or not. watching it the other day they always seem to change something about their set. So either they have had Colin and jsutin round satying ergh awful chairs etc or they really just like changing furniture lol. I miss not watching Midlands today has beern a while since i saw it i'm stuck with old North Weest Today now which hjas started to go on a bit of a downward slope.
did anyone else admire springwatch on midlands today? i particularly liked the very fine looking 'springwatch on midlands today' cue cards, oh and the extensive use of crane shots over the ponds.
oh and while i'm at it ...
Quote:
Second TV mast is to go up in Sutton
10:30 - 01 June 2007
Tv won't make you square-eyed, but Sutton residents may soon be seeing double.
It's because two TV masts are better than one.At least that was this week's message from broadcast chiefs preparing Sutton's landmark transmitting station for the digital switchover in 2011.
This month, National Grid Wireless - one of two companies operating the UK's broadcast infrastructure - will apply to build an additional, temporary 225m mast to upgrade the local BBC transmitter network and ensure services are maintained during the alterations.
The new transmitter would be sited within the compound and accommodate the analogue and digital antennae that must be removed from the existing mast, just 100m away, while it is prepared for the installation of new apparatus.
But while the new structure would only loom on Sutton's horizon for a limited period, the current 240m transmitter, recognisable from miles around, would itself be extended by 30m.
"It is expected that the temporary mast will remain in place for two years until the digital audio broadcast antennae can be refitted to the extended structure - the analogue TV antennas will then be discarded," said a National Grid Wireless spokesperson.
"Subject to a successful planning application, the temporary mast will be built and its antennae fitted in summer, 2008.
"The extension to the existing mast will be added in 2009 and a new building - at the base of the mast - will be built in 2010."
The Sutton mast is the principal TV and radio transmitter for the greater Birmingham area and provides coverage to around three million households. The site was built in 1949, with the current mast replacing an earlier structure in 1983.
But, what's on the other side, so to speak?
To a certain degree, the company preempted the associated issue itself, saying: "Throughout the work - and once it is complete and switchover achieved - the site will remain compliant with the guidelines for public exposure to radio transmissions."
Which is all well and good, except for those worried that the guidelines are poorly set in the first place; actually, the least-pressing of their concerns.
In March last year, an eminent scientist investigating links between communications equipment and health told a national seminar that safety risks posed by mobile phone masts was as negligible as that of TV transmitters.
The Observer reported how local campaigners were angry that the conference could undermine their cause and belittle the supposed risks of Sutton's mast. They alleged that the transmitter was responsible for a series of cancer cases and pointed to evidence supporting their claims.
"People who are suffering or who have sadly died have a right to be represented and should not be forgotten," Eileen O'Connor said back then as she began to take her anti-masts fight to national level, having founded SCRAM - Sutton Coldfield Residents Against Masts.
She pointed to the 1997 dossier Cancer Incidence Near Radio and TV Transmitters which she said uncovered a 'cancer cluster' within a 2km radius of the Sutton mast.
It studied the amount of leukaemia cases among the mast's neighbours, using national cancer rates as the control group.
Its conclusions claimed there was an increased risk of adult leukaemia within the boundary and a significant decline in risk outside of it. However, a second survey on other UK transmitters, to test the Sutton results, found no excess of adult leukaemia within the 2km mark.
It remains to be seen to what extent a boosted TV transmitter will be directly proportional to general, anti-mast campaigning, but the Scram's vice-chairman Lynn Insley had an early idea.
"As a group, we shall be watching the situation very closely.
"The committee has always had grave concerns about this issue."
She added: "My own personal view is that I don't believe for one minute that this sort of equipment should be among people's homes.
"It shouldn't have been placed there back in the 40s.
"But nobody in authority seems to be taking the whole thing seriously."
Digital TV may bring with it increased entertainment, but the reminder this week was that some fear goggle-box and giggles may ultimately not go hand-in-hand.
Was CNW's 11:10 bulletin today read from the studio as normal? CNE was presented from the newsroom at Terry Lloyd House for that bulletin, yet back in the studio for lunchtime? First time I've seen that happen
Was there anything wrong with the Central studio at 11:10 or something?
Was CNW's 11:10 bulletin today read from the studio as normal? CNE was presented from the newsroom at Terry Lloyd House for that bulletin, yet back in the studio for lunchtime? First time I've seen that happen
Was there anything wrong with the Central studio at 11:10 or something?
Perhaps Sameena Ali-Khan was held up in the floods around Birmingham this morning, so TLH was used as an emergency-- AFAIK they have never presented a whole bulletin from there before.
they do love that one particular piece of library music at bbc mids. the one from sue beardsmore's witley court appeared yet again tonight on building britain (midlands)
oh and how crap was the woman presenting it (i use the word presenting loosely).
they do love that one particular piece of library music at bbc mids. the one from sue beardsmore's witley court appeared yet again tonight on building britain (midlands)
oh and how crap was the woman presenting it (i use the word presenting loosely).
She was awful. She won the apprentice last year I think, maybe the year before. Did she even win?! She does Kids TV I think.
they do love that one particular piece of library music at bbc mids. the one from sue beardsmore's witley court appeared yet again tonight on building britain (midlands)
oh and how crap was the woman presenting it (i use the word presenting loosely).
She was awful. She won the apprentice last year I think, maybe the year before. Did she even win?! She does Kids TV I think.
Saira Khan. She hosts Beat The Boss on CBBC... oh and she came second btw
The usual practice is to post things about BBC EMT or CNE on this thread. Usually comments on those programmes are in comparison with BBC Midlands or CNW anyway.
I think those in Lincs prefer to watch his Levyness rather than BBC EMT, for the comedy value of the former 