news intro for Yorkshire

I was wondering who announces the words "this is BBC One in Yorkshire and the North Midlands"
thanks ddoubt

I've always wondered why the actual official name of the region doesn't bother to mention "& North Midlands", yet the verbal announcements do

Back in the days before Look Levy, when BBC Leeds served both Emley and Belmont, I seem to remember the verbal announcement being "Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and the North Midlands". This seems to ignore North Norfolk, unless they're really suggesting that the expression "North Midlands" is sufficiant to cover North Norfolk too (?)

yeah its interesting isn't it , you would have thought that the ident would include the north midlands on it. If they are going to stick with that caption though then news from the midlands should be covered somewhere else. However we will have to find out from BBC Yorkshire I guess

I think its Stuart Barrett who does the annoucer duty there. Recorded me thinks.

yeah well done Stedixon that is correct, and i think it is recorded

im like ITV's intro though

But ITV1 don't have idents leading into region news though! Unless you're saying there's an announcement over the opening wideshot of the Calendar studio?

If Calendar South had a geographic verbal announcement into the programme, it would be very cumbersome:

" Now on ITV1, across Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, much of the South Yorkshire county, plus the north midlands and north Norfolk, it's Calendar, with... "

Well before last night's regional programme on BBC1 Yorkshire the announcer said "Now on One....."

Probably breaking some guidelines in this multichannel era, especially as some ITV announcers have been known to refer to ITV1 as '1' occasionally

BBC One announcements used to routinely refer to the channel as 'One' before the multichannel world (Sky One, ITV 1 etc.). There are certainly plenty of announcements for download on Pres Websites where national and regional announcers say, "Now on One, Midlands Today.../ Blue Peter ... etc"

with the itv comment i was thinking more of the music style which i liked

It is Stuart, as confirmed here on his website. He also says he now works in Manchester, so I think you'd be right in saying the links are pre-rec'd.

In fact, I'm pretty certain most (if not all) BBC English regions have pre-recorded continuity links.

I'm not aware of any English Regions that use live continuity announcements, though it would be technically possible in a few centres. However, with only 3 regular junctions a day on Monday-Friday where English Regional continuity is required (1300, 1800 and 2200), it's perfectly understandable that a live announcer isn't considered a necessity! This wasn't always the case though, as back in the 70s and 80s, regional continuity across the BBC wasn't uncommon at all. On TV Ark there are several BBC South closedowns for example. Some centres still have Presentation Galleries but they are primarily used for the production of smaller bulletins where just one member of staff is in the gallery. Occasionally when one-off regional programmes are scheduled, a region might choose to transmit it via their pres gallery rather than staffing the main production gallery.