North East Tonight & Look North (NE&C)

I almost forgot, YTV, TTTV and Anglia were all to be gelled together in the sevnties under the 'Trident' umbrella. As it was the IBA said no, and only YTV and TTTV actually became Trident Television. Some things are meant to be. (If you already know this story, it's for our younger viewers!)

well theyre auctioning off City Road's contents later this month according to North East Tonight. You can even bid for Mike's old chair.

Henry Butcher auctioneer

The '50 Years of TTTV' programme was absolutely superb. Good views inside the new headquarters and some great archive stuff.

Bob's off again this week, so the weather forecasts are once again one-to-miss. I'd expect Mike will be back soon, probably with Bob coming back at the same time.

You really have to stop this continued hatred for anything that doesn't originate from Tyne Tees. I'm sure the YTV forecasters are doing a perfectly good job. Just wait until Bob retires, you'll never watch a televised weather forecast again!

Well no, I don't mind Jon Mitchell, but we always seem to end up with Jo Blythe, who knows little more about the weather than what she reads from the autocue.
Bob is a qualified forecaster. He knows what he's on about.

On the whole the YTV team tend to rush the weather, just placing the same symbol on the map 6 times (it's rare to have exactly the same condition everywhere in the North East/North Yorkshire/Borders). They also don't do the sub-regional forecast. I could find out more from staring at a pressure chart than listening so some dull woman telling us that it's going to be dull.

And yeah, you're right. Well at least regarding ITV forecasts. If Bob is replaced by that YTV team, I will not be watching the weather forecast on Tyne Tees any more.

Bob retire....never! The YTV team always seem to put more bells and whistles on their reports with animated Satelite/radar/isobar "slides" up. Bob never seems to use these. Surely he would have access to the same software. However, I miss the cryptic messages on the placenames when he's not there.

Well no, I don't mind Jon Mitchell, but we always seem to end up with Jo Blythe, who knows little more about the weather than what she reads from the autocue.
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Jon Mitchell is the only qualified forecaster of the YTV team, but Jo Blythe doesn't read from an autocue and neither do the rest ot the YTV team.

Have to agree re Bob vs those Leeds people. Bob's forecasts are more accurate, much better tailored to the various parts of the North East, and delivered with more charm and character than the majority of Leeds team could ever hope to muster.

The Leeds ones aren't bad as such, but you really get the impression they're going through the motions.

Of course Bob isn't actually all that old, and could quite easily soldier on for another ten years before retiring.

Get the likes of Bob Rust back on the Leeds team and all might be different. These non-qualified Z-list wanabee celebs Leeds employs these days just don't cut it. A dolly-bird presenting the weather was a poor show in 1983 when Wincey Willis was at City Road, and it's an even more poor show now as the weather forecasts have supposedly become a lot more sophisticated.

> Jon Mitchell is the only qualified forecaster of the YTV team

And it has to be said that it really does show. He sticks out like a sore thumb -- someone who knows what he's talking about. A good presenter, and the only credible one based at Leeds.

A short clip from Northern Life was shown on tonight's Calendar
http://www.hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk/calendar220905h.jpg
I wonder what this bloke is doing now!

1988 if I'm not mistaken. Very early on in the 88 revamp, where the sports area still had a plain background. That was such a crappy set...

Aye, Duncan Wood started at Tyne Tees.

Ah the set that looked like a spaceship, bizarrely I actually liked watching it, as I felt it was very different to the Calendar set at the time.