The North East and Cumbria (and Southern Scotland) Thread

I think it's informed speculation, but there was a feeling the service would be branded "ITV News London" for example but the names of the flagship 6pm shows would remain.

I'd have thought "ITV News North" was the obvious solution to the Cumbria/Border issue, but then that doesn't make sense for Border viewers in Southern Scotland. Don't the 6pm shows though open with different titles and programme names, with then no explicit mention made once they merge. What's the deal with other bulletins - are some merged or are they always split with one pre-recorded and one live?

The lunchtime one says 'Tyne Tees and Border News' on the screen and titles. But just says Tyne Tees News on the lower left dog.

Indeed.

Different lower-left DOGs are seen in each area. Border viewers see a "Border News" dog over what is otherwise the same output.

Similarly, the respective "North East Tonight" or "Lookaround" DOGs remain on-screen during the pan-regional part of the 6pm programme.

All of which raises questions in my head as to at what point in the "transmission chain" (correct terminolgy?) the DOGs are added?

The local gallery.

There's usually two outputs to Leeds - here there's 'EAST LEEDS' and 'WEST LEEDS' that goes out from Central

I guess the local news DOGs are another thing that'll change on Monday then - can't see them not using the opportunity to stick the ITV logo there. Hopefully they don't decide to DOG the national news either - and it would be nice to see them initially at least take the hashtag off the headlines too as surely they wouldn't want that competing with their new branding.

It would be really sad to see the 'Lookaround' brand quietly gone by Monday after 52 years!

If it does become itvNEWS Border & itvNEWS Tyne Tees it would look messy with the presenter at lunch/weekend going 'Welcome to the ITV News from Tyne Tees and Border. They could do what they do (or did on Central) and Pre-rec 2 intro's with presenter saying "Good Afternoon, welcome to the lunchtime ITV News from Border" (or Tyne Tees) then titles and live pan-reg bulletin.

"Hello this is Central News for the Midlands!"

Not a patch on the long lasting "Hello from the Central Newsroom" that lasted until 2010!

I'm pretty sure on at least the lunchtime news they say 'Welcome to the Lunchtime News from ITV Tyne Tees and Border' so saying that is no different really. They will introduce as 'Good Afternoon from ITV News Tyne Tees & Border at Lunchtime' or words to that affect, so it's no different realistically. The idea of the regional news programmes having the 'ITV News' prefix has been around since the new titles having the ITV News logo above the programme name so it was 'ITV News North East Tonight'

In many regions the speculated change to 'ITV News [REGION]' isn't particular of note. West/Westcountry, Meridian, Anglia, Central, Wales, London will all just drop the 'Tonight'. Possibly West/Westcountry could turn into one of two possibilities 'ITV News westcountry' for me the likely option or 'ITV News South West'. Here in Tyne Tees, we'll lose North East Tonight in favour of 'ITV News Tyne Tees' I would imagine that wouldn't bother me to much I usually say put Tyne Tees News on anyway.

Granada, Border & Yorkshire are the regions who are slightly different.
Granada Reports is well established brand that has been around for years so it would be sort of a shame to see that dropped but it will now be 'ITV News Granada' which still keeps Granada.

In Yorkshire & Border going under the same principles then 'Calendar' & 'Lookaround' could be gone. The regional news bulletins would go under the name 'ITV News Yorkshire' and 'ITV News Border' (For sub-regional bulletins). I'm finding it hard to believe they would use 'ITV News Lookaround' for the 6pm & Late bulletins. In Yorkshire, though 'ITV News Calendar' could work well, also this is more likely as all of their other bulletins are branded 'Calendar News'.

Suppose we'll have to wait and see!

Based on the radio interview that Duncan and Christine have done (see Yorkshire thread for link) Calendar keeping the Calendar name, so I expect Lookaround will too. All they said about the Calendar studio is they will have a news wall, a longer and larger sofa, and a taller desk - so perhaps a bit like the previous MT studio where the desk was set quite high so it was almost like they were sat at a desk anyway.

...and on you're post Sierra Oscar Lucy Meacock has already confirmed Granada Reports name remains.

Sierra Oscar does not that what he is talking about

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