Northern England and Southern Scotland Thread

OK, pay attention:

Last Wednesday the ITV Border and ITV Tyne Tees regions were merged to create ITV Tyne Tees & Border.

Before the merger there were 3 news programmes: North East Tonight (North), North East Tonight (South) and Lookaround.

After the merger, the Tyne Tees North and South subregions were merged into 1, meaning there are no longer North East Tonight North/South opt outs.

At 6pm, the bulletin begin exactly as they did prior to the merger. North East Tonight titles play in the Tyne Tees region and Lookaround titles play in the Border region. The first 15-18 minutes feature stories only from the North East in the Tyne Tees region and Cumbria and South of Scotland in the Border region.

Both of these 15-18 minute segments are presented by the same people: Pam Royle and Ian Payne. Therefore one has to be pre-recorded. They decide which programme will be pre-recorded and which will be live depending on the day's news.

With me so far?

At around 6.15pm, a 'North East Tonight'/'Lookaround' holding caption appears on screen and the programme becomes a live, pan-regional bulletin.

It remains a pan-regional programme until the weather at which point the bulletin splits again, showing North East weather in the Tyne Tees region and Cumbrian/South of Scotland weather in the Border region.

The same presenters do the opt with the first 18 minutes of either Lookaround or North East Tonight being live depending on the news of the day, whichever isn't live is recorded obviously. After the 18 minutes the two halves come together and this bit is live.

I understand now. I have just viewed the programme on the ITV Local website.

I didn't realise that the one after the News at Ten was one of the pre recorded, just watched it for the first time tonight and presumed it would've been the branded 'Tyne Tees and Border News' pan regional like the lunchtime ones...

What has the news programme been like in your area? We have just had announcement by our presenters, saying Yorkshire, Tyne Tees and Border regions are joing Granada Reports, due to a technical issue

The answer is in your question.

Looks like Calendar has made it to air on Satellite.

Glad someone heard the announcement. i was wondering what was going on?

so what happeneed in your region. Did they just go straight into Granada Reports?

Yep, i'm not sure there was an announcement at all or if there wa i missed it. (we're in Border) The Granada presenters have mentioned it twice now though.

So, most of you here are not from the North West, so what do you think of our regionsal news prgramme Granada Reports, compared to your programme?

Well cos we've got new presenters due our very recent Tyne Tees /Border news merger, Granada seems like a more genuine, natural team. I guess our presenters don't know much about our area yet so don't seem very relaxed.