Not on a permanent basis, but there is often cooperation between them. There was a behind the scenes at Calendar documentary many years ago and it showed Calendar and Look North reporters agreeing to pool an interview with somebody who had said she would only do one interview.
I certainly get the impression that the rivalry between them is friendly.
Not on a permanent basis, but there is often cooperation between them. There was a behind the scenes at Calendar documentary many years ago and it showed Calendar and Look North reporters agreeing to pool an interview with somebody who had said she would only do one interview.
I certainly get the impression that the rivalry between them is friendly.
I just wonder if across the country the two networks could save some money if elements were merged.
I think across the regions both networks seem to have good relations with each other especially as time has gone on and both regional services have dramatically been scaled back.
When ITV had their regional cull in 2009, it was well documented that the BBC had offered to share its resources with ITV, but as far as I'm aware that never materialised.
For the future it may make sense to streamline resources, but commercially it's important for the two to be in competition, otherwise there's no point in broadcasting the same programme twice.
I agree with that it would be pointless to end up with two programmes exactly the same, but with more regions presumably looking to upgrade facilities for HD/UHD broadcasts in the future could it benefit both broadcasters to share the costs by moving to new premises together.
Not on a permanent basis, but there is often cooperation between them. There was a behind the scenes at Calendar documentary many years ago and it showed Calendar and Look North reporters agreeing to pool an interview with somebody who had said she would only do one interview.
I certainly get the impression that the rivalry between them is friendly.
That's broadly true for the whole industry I think, there's a fair bit of behind the scenes co operation and collaboration between all the UK broadcasters, national and regional.
There was indeed a proposal for the BBC to offer studio space and technical staff to itv. I think the deal was that itv would record bulletins for playout at 6pm while the BBC would then make their programmes live. I can't quite recall why the idea stalled, but there were lots of real issues, like how to appropriately label each broadcasters material on a shared server so that each used their own stuff, what would happen to specials and schedule changes (like during Wimbledon) and breaking news where both would quite like to go live...
There was indeed a proposal for the BBC to offer studio space and technical staff to itv. I think the deal was that itv would record bulletins for playout at 6pm while the BBC would then make their programmes live. I can't quite recall why the idea stalled, but there were lots of real issues, like how to appropriately label each broadcasters material on a shared server so that each used their own stuff, what would happen to specials and schedule changes (like during Wimbledon) and breaking news where both would quite like to go live...
I remember working in regional news at the time and I don't think anyone knew how it would work. The main production issue I can see is how do you stop the BBC team not stealing the ITV programmes content (or vice versa)
Not on a permanent basis, but there is often cooperation between them. There was a behind the scenes at Calendar documentary many years ago and it showed Calendar and Look North reporters agreeing to pool an interview with somebody who had said she would only do one interview.
I certainly get the impression that the rivalry between them is friendly.
That happens a lot nationally too. There are many occasions where it's inappropriate, not possible or not economic to send crews from BBC, ITV and Sky so they will pool or share material between them.
Royal events - known as the 'Royal Rota' are a good example as is helicopter footage - normally ITN and the BBC will send a chopper up together
Another wooden top with the weekend bulletins on Central. Such a shame Central lost such great personalities.
I don't think they're that bad now. Stacey Foster, Lee Comley and Chris Halpin I actually don't mind, they're OK newsreaders and really good reporters.
Central is miles better than Midlands Today at the moment. I find some of the reporters and newsreaders on there a bit dodgy, apart from the stalwarts of course, sadly missing Queen Kay.
Another wooden top with the weekend bulletins on Central. Such a shame Central lost such great personalities.
I don't think they're that bad now. Stacey Foster, Lee Comley and Chris Halpin I actually don't mind, they're OK newsreaders and really good reporters.
Central is miles better than Midlands Today at the moment. I find some of the reporters and newsreaders on there a bit dodgy, apart from the stalwarts of course, sadly missing Queen Kay.
Stacey has really improved in the last year but I don't agree about the gents. I wouldn't mind seeing Callum Watkinson having a go in the hot seat as he seems to actually have a bit of personality.