The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

I think a lot of (possibly all) local radio stations chose to stay local for the whole night. It might be only an extra 4 hours but it requires a lot of people to really make it justifiable. A few phono reporters in some of the key counts and a carefully planned radiocar itinerary for a few quality lives can make the output sound extremely good however and really justify the whole thing. Occasionally some of these radio people will also provide material for regional television opts, either on the night or for the next day's main programmes on BBC 1.

How you fill the time is another issue - Radio Leeds's Election Night special went on air at 10pm, it was nearly 5am before any of the local counts declared!

'Politics Show' special today between 10am & 12pm on WM presented by that well known heavyweight political presenter Phil Upton!

(Still wondering what an ex commercial radio jock knows about hard news!)

(Before anyone mentions Doolan, he's from a commercial radio era that dealt with speech!)

This sounds like a good idea :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/05_may/10/suffolk.shtml

Why can't WM or one of the other BBC Midlands stations do something similar?

Midlands Today with new titles, seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAxmT4lWlb8, and the company behind it has designed graphics before, according to their site and showreel. Will this be the first region to almost completely break the mold?

EDIT: Looking at the Youtube, there are various mocks for BBC News which would never make air, so it may be right to ignore me.

Jesus wept.

I can't even escape Flupton on the bus!

The bus I was on this morning had 2 posters inside promoting the show!

(I suspect that National Express West Midlands have moved some vehicles from Birmingham to Walsall & haven't changed the posters inside!)

NXWM have been doing a bit of fleet movement of late. All the Metro MkII have been moved to Wolverhampton.
I saw a Lynx in use the other day :s. Wasn't a Training but was doing the 17.

[/busgeek]

At the risk of turning this thread into a busfest, I was under the impression from a message board on another site, that Birmingham's Spectra vehicles have moved to Wolverhampton, Walsall's Solo minibuses have moved out, which explains the Birmingham to Walsall moves, no Lynxes are in use anywhere within National Express WM & all Metrobuses are withdrawn, apart from a couple at Acocks Green.

(Must admit I liked the Solos personally. Since 1986, there's been several attempts at a minibus network, which they give up on after so many years!)

http://west-midlands-buses.fpic.co.uk/

(Don't get me started on the recent changes in Walsall & North Birmingham!)

I saw a Lynx near LH garage with route 17. I know there are a few metros at AG.

Anyway. Critique, what one earth made you think that mock was a new look for MT, Kay would never allow it.

No comments on the Danny Kelly situation yet?

I admit I was expecting things to go pear shaped once the 'Danswerphone' got going, with your average local moron ringing in & leaving various abuse, not with the Facebook page!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8688799.stm

Basically Mollie's looking after the show until next Tuesday & the Facebook wall has been deactivated.

(I admit I did send him a message last night, before I heard this morning, asking him if there was a problem with the page, especially as people kept joining & leaving. At one point, he managed to get his 1000th Facebook friend, but now it's dropped back to 999!)

As one BBC local radio slaphead takes a enforced temporary break, another one reappears after several years elsewhere.

Jo Malin's off (again! She's bad as Flupton!) & covering is one Shane O'Connor, who you'll remember just over 10 years ago starting out on the Tony & Julie Midlands Late Show, then graduating to the Paul Franks Breakfast Show & Early Show, then for the last few years BBC Radio Derby breakfast, marrying former Doolan show assistant Angelina Socci last year, by then at East Midlands Today. He's now left Derby & presumbly is now covering where he can!

MT are not lighting their set properly anymore by the look of it. The swirl frosting has gone brown :S.

I might be missing something here, but why have a LIVE from the newsroom when you can see the actual studio in the background?

Adrian Goldberg is on his way back to WM to present a weekly show, replacing Janice Long(who's doing stuff towards WM's 40th anniversary later this year!).

This, coupled with the Talk Sport & Birmingham Mail work, is putting the future of The Stirrer website in doubt.

(For discussion on that, go to www.thestirrer.co.uk !)

I wonder what Les Ross's opinion is of the Danny Kelly situation, bearing in mind until then, he'd been involved in WM's previous bout of bad publicity? (The Hardeep Singh Kohli affair, to remind you!)