The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread: Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands - Page 289

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Roger Mellie 25 May 2009 9:00pm

What's with the weather forecast during the Politics Show?

We don't normally get one do we?

(unless it's something to do with that there is normally a national 5 day forecast during the Country Tracks prog, but they've gone to the trouble of a local & national forecast?)

If Formula One is on, then Country Tracks is dispensed with-- thus that weather forecast transfers to the Politics Show instead.

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Londoner 29 May 2009 1:48pm

Arti Halai on the demise of Central:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/534592.php

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tellywatcher 29 May 2009 1:56pm

Wonder where the plasmas have gone? They did their best at trying to hide it... until the end!

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/noplasmt1.png

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/noplasmt2.png

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Mike W 29 May 2009 7:31pm

BBC Midlands being Eco-Friendly?

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gregmc 10 June 2009 2:17pm

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joshtoday 11 June 2009 6:57pm

the plasmas are back in midlands today newsroom.

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Westy2 13 June 2009 8:21pm

This Alex Bellfield programme that's going out on WM on Saturdays at 5 currently.

I know it's an indie production, but is it a show made for transmission for all BBC Local Radio stations & Alex is personalising the links for each station, or is it a WM only show?

I suspect the former, but I haven't checked listings for other stations though.

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ohdearme 13 June 2009 10:48pm

Was anybody else watching itv news at 10pm tonight and hear the last report about the Queens Honours list by Steve Clamp? Is this the same Steve Clamp from our old Central News East? I can't be sure as his voice sounded a bit less masculine and I thought he just presented news?

Interestingly, if it was him, the programme was just full of reports from old Central people and Lucy Meacock from Granada. It's a shame the regions are failing as this proves they're a great training ground for bigger things!

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Jon 14 June 2009 1:14am

Westy2 posted:

This Alex Bellfield programme that's going out on WM on Saturdays at 5 currently.

I know it's an indie production, but is it a show made for transmission for all BBC Local Radio stations & Alex is personalising the links for each station, or is it a WM only show?

I suspect the former, but I haven't checked listings for other stations though.

It's on BBC Hereford and Worcester as well, probably a midlands thing, with links tailored to each station.

Alex has stockpiled a lot of the celebrity interviews which can be heard at http://www.celebrityradio.co.uk/index.php and I assume these are what he is using.

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Roger Mellie 14 June 2009 5:55pm

ohdearme posted:

Was anybody else watching itv news at 10pm tonight and hear the last report about the Queens Honours list by Steve Clamp? Is this the same Steve Clamp from our old Central News East? I can't be sure as his voice sounded a bit less masculine and I thought he just presented news?

Interestingly, if it was him, the programme was just full of reports from old Central people and Lucy Meacock from Granada. It's a shame the regions are failing as this proves they're a great training ground for bigger things!

It was indeed-- or "Steven Clamp" as Lucy called him

He's been doing a few stints on Setanta as well I believe.

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Westy2 15 June 2009 9:52pm

Does Nick, like Suzanne, wear contacts on screen normally?

He was wearing glasses tonight, so is he suffering hay fever issues?

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Mike W 4 July 2009 12:32pm

Don't know if anyone noticed, but there was no regional news yesterday, just BBC London. I don't know whether it was just on Virgin Media though.

The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

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