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

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tvmercia Founding member
Dan posted:
sda| posted:
has anyone got any more juicy info on the proposed BBC midlands tv channel that was bandied about a while back?


Ariel posted:
Around 20 video journalists, between three and five community/user generated content producers and five hub producers [will] provide local rolling news for the Hereford and Worcester, Stoke, Birmingham, Coventry and Shropshire areas from September.

The trials will last for nine months and, if successful, will be the forerunners of around 60 similar services introduced across the UK as outlined in Building Public Value.

Up to ten minute sequences of local news will be accessible at fixed points within each hour via the red button on satellite tv, and on demand via the web, broadband tv or mobile phones.
indeed - interesting to note they're using midlands today branding rather than local radio branding. itll be interesting to see how they implement weather.
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Matrix
To coin the old phrase...

"What on earth happened last night"?

We had Micheal and Suzanne who both seemed to be constently fluffing their lines. "Hello and Welcome from the BBC" No, No, No! Come on Micheal. It's "Hello and welcome to Thursday edition of Midlands Today from the BBC"
Some bocthed shots as well, long then short then wrong place. And James McDonald interviewing Sir Jasper, Unforgivable...

In relation to the local TV news bulletins for Shropshire and others, Sound quite interesting. Apparently theres been a lot of in-fighting at Radio Shropshire over this. Quite interested tvm why they're branding it as MT instead of, say, Shropshire Today... or even BBC Newsroom Shropshire....
WE
Westy2
What was wrong with James McDonald interviewing Jasper Carrott?
(It's late & it's not blindlingly obvious!)

The archive clip of Jasper.

Whats the source?

Out of curiosity, where's Sophie Marsh?

8 days later

MA
Matrix
Hate to say it, and not to break the habit.

"What on earth has been happening this week?"

We had the weather forecast going "missing" replaced by 3 minutes of BBC London News, Great!
Some really quite weird aspects, Shef's mic cutting out then in. Camera's the wrong way round, Suzanne and *THAT* top, again!

On the other hand I really like the new "weather graphics" No, not them, the MT exclusive weather astons...You heard it here first...

Nice to have the *proper* thread back mind...
WE
Westy2
Goldie's up late tonite!

Heard him on 5 Live about half an hour ago, discussing West Midlands party animals!
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tvmercia Founding member
i didnt bother posting the video of this at the time, but i shall do now, because it was so innovative ...

http://www.andrew986.clara.co.uk/davidgregory1.gif

i suggest we all put it in our signatures
SD
sda|
*Beware - another OT post from me*

I nearly choked on my lincolshire potato supper earlier when I saw my old haunts on "A Digital Picture of Britain" on BBC4. Super shots of Cradley Heath high street and a look inside the function room at the Waggon and Horses. Anyhoo, I should be back in the midlands in a few months. It's extremely tedious over here in Skegness, I was in Boston again on friday, got drenched, found it very dull once again, how does a certain forumer cope?

Back OT, I remembered back to when Richard Whitely came to Gas St for Bob Warman's 30th year at Central, tvm posted some pics in the other thread, a very sad loss! Bob of course was up in Calendar land for a short while presenting the news and the embryonic Good Morning Calendar, which I really should capture sometime
JO
Jon
Yes Bob was on tonights Calender News with the regular Central News Brum back drop behind paying his respectss to Richard.
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tvmercia Founding member
have just noticed a new programme tonight at 7.30 ...

Central Extra
Channel: Central 03
Date: Tuesday 28th June 2005
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (starting in 1 hour and 27 minutes)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Current affairs programme that blends documentaries and studio debate to take an in-depth look at the region's big stories.
(Widescreen)

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tvmercia Founding member
the central extra trailer is quite nice, so i thought id upload - how many times does he say "central" - you wouldn’t have got that in the carlton era! there’s almost a central renaissance going on (in terms of names anyway)

central news, central sport, central choice and now central extra.

"CENTRAL extra your current affairs programme that uncovers the story behind the news. our reporters and presenters have the inside information on the CENTRAL issues that affect your lives. CENTRAL extra, tonight at 7.30"

CENTRAL EXTRA TRAILER

nice to see brmb and bbc midlands coming together for live 8, both pitching in to put on the cannon hill park screening, whilst bbc mids are showing it in town too. with the bbc having the broadcast rights i'd be surprised if brmb can broadcast it, but i wonder if bbc wm will, aside from the usual OBs?
JO
Jon
Yes Central Extra Started last week.
SD
sda|
Just noticed that http://www.itvregions.com/Central/ appears to have been updated, but more interesting is that the images are uncompressed, so we now have the biggest picture of Marie Ashby outside of MDR's collection!

Marie

Central

Photo of the plasma screen by the look of it

Somewhere else

Wesley Smith

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