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Jack Carkdale
tvmercia posted:
ooh and here's a name we haven't heard for a long time Very Happy i think this is the first "bbc coventry and warwickshire" trailer in yeeeaaars. i take it the plans to resurrect the station are well underway, wasn't spring 2005 the date they gave? shame it doesnt say CWR tho Sad

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbccwr.jpg


In Coventry city centre, there's a new development of luxury apartments, with posh restaurants etc below. It's called Priory Place. A hideous 1960s mult-storey carpark was knocked down to make way for Priory Place.

Although most of the ground-floor stuff in Priory Place is fancy eateries, one (or several) "shop space(s)" have "BBC" boarding on them at the moment. It says "Coming... Summer 2005", and gives the web address as bbc.co.uk/coventry (Which is actually the "Where I Live" website) But when you actually get to the site, it is branded as the Coventry & Warwickshire Where I Live site.

The reason that the Where I Live URL doesn't mention Warwickshire is because bbc.co.uk/coventrywarwickshire is the radio station's (CWR/WM/whatever it's called this week) website.
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tvmercia Founding member
apparently, johnathon ray was conducting an interview on this mornings politics show midlands, so it looks as if the rumors were right! there'll be no-one left at central soon!! mark bolton, bob hall, johnathon ray, manish whatsit - all gone Confused

wonder if john is staff or freelance?

anyway - more timeshifting tonight on bbc one midlands Very Happy and hopefully a regional hand-over to bbc news 24.

DOCUMENTARY: 30 Years On: The Birmingham Pub Bombings
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
Time: 22:55 to 23:25 (starting in 2 hours and 27 minutes)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Victims, police and journalists recall the atrocities which killed 21 people in 1974.
(West Midlands only)

FILM: Body of Evidence
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
Time: 23:25 to 01:05 (starting in 2 hours and 57 minutes)
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tense, erotic thriller from the director of Last Exit to Brooklyn. A young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy lover - a man in his sixties with a heart condition - after video evidence is found showing the pair engaged in a rigorous sex session just hours before his death. However, her lawyer is not convinced, and when he starts to fall for her himself, the question of her guilt becomes more pressing.
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore, Stan Shaw
(West Midlands only, 1993, 2 Star)

NEWS: Joins BBC News 24
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Monday 22nd November 2004
Time: 01:05 to 06:00 (starting in 4 hours and 37 minutes)
Duration: 4 hours and 55 minutes.
(West Midlands only)

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Westy2
Westy2 posted:
Mr.B posted:
Westy2 posted:

(There is also a CIN special on Friday between 7 & 10 on WM too! What's the betting it's Daz Hale in charge ! Remember when local radio used to devote the entire night to CIN Not any more !)


Actually old fella, I have some news for you... straight from the Horse's mouth again Cool

My Mate at BBC Birmingham posted:

Children In Need night on WM will be presented by Danny Kelly, not Daz Hale! 7-10 with 6-7 being the football phone in presented from the open space by Paul Franks in drag!


So there you go... my mate is also directly involved with the TV presentation on the night too... although, I'd best preserve his identitiy... Cool

By the way, it's Shefali and Ashley Blake doing the TV presentation, and by all accounts BBC Birmingham are making a day of it - Nick Owen will be around at a certain point to sign copies of his book... not sure if any proceeds to CIN though...


Well I was only guessing! ( I wasn't expecting Jimmy Franks to pop up on a weekday!)

Where's Tom Manners at the moment? Is he busily supporting sister Sarah with 'Strictly Come Prancing', or is he doing other things/taking a break?

I've taped (hopefully) Mollie Green from this morning, so I'll look at that later!

Caught a bit of Franksy presenting his show tonight, & he was mentioning that he was being made up.

(This has got to beat him in his underpants at the Mill a few years back, after saying he would present the Brekky Show from PM's roof, if Man U did the treble, which they did!)

What about Goldie trying to beat his fear of heights, or Waddo shovelling s**t at the sewage works?

Doolan's kids tea party, Annie Othen in bed at Allders in Coventry!

The Toy appeal kicks off tomorrow at 1pm at Bescot Stadium with the lovely Cayte Walker in charge.


Doolan mentioned that Goldie didn't do his 'heights' challenge!

Also on Doolan, there was an hour devoted to 30 years of the Brum IRA bombings, featuring people who were working on that night, such the odd copper, taxi driver(Walsall's Mayor, Mike Bird was one!), 7 the likes of Michael Buerk, Nick Owen & 'the legend that is ' Tom Coyne, who was Doolan's 'The Other Side Of ' as well.

Watched the clip of Mollie from Friday & bearing in mind I said previously that Mollie was driving the Toy Appeal bus, & I wondered if she had plenty of room up top, I can say she certainly does(& room 'below' too !) Laughing

(Gives me an idea for my next text, assuming I'm awake early enough tomorrow morning !)

Mind you she does have her 'knockers' Rolling Eyes
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Pootle5
sda| posted:
Wouldn't mind this - ebay link

Bit pricey though!


I'd like a number of that guy's items - seen them before on Ebay - but it is all well overpriced considering he must churn out loads of DVD copies of those things for just a few pence, unless of course he is paying all the appropriate copywrite and royalty fees etc...
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tvmercia Founding member
was it just me - or did the playout of the wonders of the west midlands trailer go all dodgy during that junction Confused then we had the FAB midlands today trailer then a "now on 1" anno Smile
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tvmercia Founding member
highlights of the action so far tonight, with a few capture (because its not often i can these days!)

ropey trailer before the actual programme
http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout1.jpg

nice long midlands tai chi - theyre still using the one where the camera turns upside down, even though i havent seen it on network for aaaaages
http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout2.jpg

the programme itself was really well made - presented by david jessel, contributions from nick owen
http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout4.jpg

'odd' bbc birmingham credit there. the fact its presented by jessel perhaps means a bit of network money went into it too - for showing on bbc 2 or bbc 4 maybe Confused
http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout3.jpg

and into the late film we got a boxless skaters ident Laughing
http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout5.jpg

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tvmercia Founding member
not an *AMAZING* closedown - i mean come on - someone with a tinyest bit of imagination would have said "from all of us here at bbc midlands" or "join kay alexander for midlands breakfast from 6.25 tomorrow morning" or something, anything REGIONAL, just because they can. but it was fab none the less

http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout6.jpg

Arrow BBC ONE MIDLANDS CLOSE
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fanoftv
tvmercia posted:
not an *AMAZING* closedown - i mean come on - someone with a tinyest bit of imagination would have said "from all of us here at bbc midlands" or "join kay alexander for midlands breakfast from 6.25 tomorrow morning" or something, anything REGIONAL, just because they can. but it was fab none the less

http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout6.jpg

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Yeah. Why were they regionally going into it anyway? Sorry if I've missed the point somewhere.

Plus they mustn't have provided BBC Midlands with a copy of the News 24 titles to go into it neatly, rather than cutting, unless they just didn't use them.

You'd think that all regions would have a version of everything, local idents for BBC One/Two, and things like News 24 openings, etc just incase they're found in a position to use them.
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tvmercia Founding member
fanoftv posted:
tvmercia posted:
not an *AMAZING* closedown - i mean come on - someone with a tinyest bit of imagination would have said "from all of us here at bbc midlands" or "join kay alexander for midlands breakfast from 6.25 tomorrow morning" or something, anything REGIONAL, just because they can. but it was fab none the less

http://www.tvmercia.co.uk/bbcmids-optout6.jpg

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Yeah. Why were they regionally going into it anyway? Sorry if I've missed the point somewhere.

Plus they mustn't have provided BBC Midlands with a copy of the News 24 titles to go into it neatly, rather than cutting, unless they just didn't use them.

You'd think that all regions would have a version of everything, local idents for BBC One/Two, and things like News 24 openings, etc just incase they're found in a position to use them.


tvmercia posted:
anyway - more timeshifting tonight on bbc one midlands Very Happy and hopefully a regional hand-over to bbc news 24.

DOCUMENTARY: 30 Years On: The Birmingham Pub Bombings
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
Time: 22:55 to 23:25 (starting in 2 hours and 27 minutes)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Victims, police and journalists recall the atrocities which killed 21 people in 1974.
(West Midlands only)

FILM: Body of Evidence
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
Time: 23:25 to 01:05 (starting in 2 hours and 57 minutes)
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tense, erotic thriller from the director of Last Exit to Brooklyn. A young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy lover - a man in his sixties with a heart condition - after video evidence is found showing the pair engaged in a rigorous sex session just hours before his death. However, her lawyer is not convinced, and when he starts to fall for her himself, the question of her guilt becomes more pressing.
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore, Stan Shaw
(West Midlands only, 1993, 2 Star)

NEWS: Joins BBC News 24
Channel: BBC 1 Midlands 01
Date: Monday 22nd November 2004
Time: 01:05 to 06:00 (starting in 4 hours and 37 minutes)
Duration: 4 hours and 55 minutes.
(West Midlands only)
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fanoftv
Oh I'm sorry about that. I not only missed the programme itself, but I also missed your post. I appologise, but it's nice to have a BBC Midlands Closedown.
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Westy2
Why use a boxless ident ?

By the way, as threatened, I sent my text into Mollie, but it wasn't read out, along with a few others, as it was a bit near the knuckle!

(She'd been getting stick ever since !)

We wouldn't have dreamed doing this to Julie Mayer !
Laughing
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Westy2
Big story in Coventry today. (The Jaguar march)

Where was Gaunty? (The asshole ! Was he sick ?)

I thought he would've been in the thick of it, seeing he owns one!

Waddo was presenting instead, & good news, Julie returns to the 'Late Show' on Monday, after her recent operation !

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