The Newsroom

Odd opening titles on Look North

North Today?

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Andrew posted:

Although they could have just run the normal Leeds titles. 99% of viewers wouldn’t have noticed any difference


Whilst that is correct, I do appreciate that they went to the effort rather than just using the normal titles. If anybody from Look North is reading this thread they are probably wondering why they bothered!

That said I'm surprised a joint version hadn't been made in advance for such an occasion as both programmes back each other up and share Breakfast.
JA
Jamesypoo
Ghost posted:
BBI45 posted:
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, sans serif instead of serif, and no BBC News logo. Due to absent staff, perhaps?

Do you have any pictures?

*

What an amazing headline
IS
Inspector Sands
Jamesypoo posted:
Ghost posted:
BBI45 posted:
Do you have any pictures?

*

What an amazing headline

It's a good headline, but not an original one:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54641557

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fears-for-tiers-uk-cities-chafe-at-3level-lockdown-plan-steve-rotheram-government-pubs-cities-cities-b987198.html

Amongst others

12 days later

RA
radiolistener
Ballyboy posted:
I had a idea for a name for the merger. Pennines Today?


Manchester Tonight (incorporating parts of Leeds, Hull and Kings Lynn.)

13 days later

RA
radiolistener
rfr1 posted:
rob posted:
How about "Look North"?

As daft as this tangent might sound, you all have a point. Pennines Today wouldn't suit those on the east coast, and I can't really imagine viewers in King's Lynn are particularly happy receiving a programme for the north, being in Norfolk and on a similar latitude to Norwich, Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Shrewsbury, places I've never heard anyone refer to as even remotely northern - it sticks out like a sore thumb on the weather map. Its inclusion is the result of them and Hunstanton receiving a stronger signal from Belmont than any Look East transmitter, I believe.

*


And also because the East of the region was Anglia TV until 1974....
MA
Markymark
radiolistener posted:


And also because the East of the region was Anglia TV until 1974....


Yes, although Belmont has always been a BBC North regional transmitter. Pre 1968 programmes came from Manchester, so your earlier suggestion of Manchester Tonight is a bit ironic !

32 days later

RA
radiolistener
Can I ask the admins are we no longer allowed to discuss Look North on here given that the thread has now closed?
TI
TIGHazard
radiolistener posted:
Can I ask the admins are we no longer allowed to discuss Look North on here given that the thread has now closed?


The rules have recently changed to discourage long megathreads.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Bizarrely the Look North thread was closed, but you are still allowed to discuss Look East and South Today along with others
SP
Steve in Pudsey
If there's something noteworthy start a new thread, like this one was. But there's no day to day minutae thread.

Newer posts