I thought the idea was that London and Granada are both regions that can't be subdivided due to the transmitter set up (eg both have one main transmitter) so they do a full 30 minutes of regional stuff.
Regions which split have 20 minutes on their own then join together for 10 minutes that won't be focussing specifically on their area.
I'm assuming that in areas which have an overlap there is no problem with sharing reports - a story from North Yorkshire can be argued to be local for Calendar and Tyne Tees without too much difficulty.
The below quote is from ITV News, implying the introduction of separate Daybreak opts as West Country does currently? These opts are too short and cover to vast an area at the moment.
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The television regulator, Ofcom, has announced the changes it would like to see to ITV's coverage in Cumbria and southern Scotland.
ITV's proposal to revert to a full half hour of local Border news in Lookaround has been accepted.
There will also be more tailored coverage in weekend, lunchtime and morning bulletins.
Southern Scotland will also receive an extra 90 minutes of current affairs programming a week. Some of the changes will begin in the autumn.
Interetingly it seems Wales will need more news minutes per week than the English Regions, even allowing for 30 minutes of weekday early evening news. Wonder how they will fit that into the schedule - extended late evening news? I can't see lunchtime or weekends being an easy option to extend as it would mean some awkward opt-outs
Will also be interesting to see what Border Scotland gets for it's 90 minutes per week. Scotland Tonight seems like the easy option. Would mean three different late evening news bulletins from Newcastle - Tyne Tees, Border England and the Border Scotland opt in Scotland Tonight. And probably a lot of half hour filler to meet the next network junction. Hope the people of Galashiels like Grimefighters, The Dales etc
I thought the idea was that London and Granada are both regions that can't be subdivided due to the transmitter set up (eg both have one main transmitter) so they do a full 30 minutes of regional stuff.
Regions which split have 20 minutes on their own then join together for 10 minutes that won't be focussing specifically on their area.
I'm assuming that in areas which have an overlap there is no problem with sharing reports - a story from North Yorkshire can be argued to be local for Calendar and Tyne Tees without too much difficulty.
Although its fair to say that Calendar has used stories from the other half of the region throughout the various incarnations, so that set up would be no different to the rest of the programme anyway.
My guess is they'll take a national topic, such as transport or health and show a similar story from another part of the country which has similar instances to the story locally which may be relevant.
Or a item that is pooled across all the regions - either partially localised or a series of reports, each one from a different region.
There's many different ways it could be done - think the 7pm BBC Local Radio programme for example
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 23 July 2013 8:53pm
I thought the idea was that London and Granada are both regions that can't be subdivided due to the transmitter set up (eg both have one main transmitter) so they do a full 30 minutes of regional stuff.
No, it's to do with population size... the fact they can't be subdivided doesn't mean they can't share material with other regions.
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Regions which split have 20 minutes on their own then join together for 10 minutes that won't be focussing specifically on their area.
The idea (according to the original proposal) is that it won't be a separate 20 minutes/10 minutes. The split regions will have a seperate half hour for each, it's just that not all the content will be unique. That way they can produce a running order that's appropriate for the region
So Central for example would do half hour for the east and half hour for the west - one pre-recorded. But say they're both showing a story from Nottingham - it could be item 2 in the East but item 6 in the west.
Of course they could borrow a story from Anglia for Central East at item 7 and one from Granada for West at item 3
Interetingly it seems Wales will need more news minutes per week than the English Regions, even allowing for 30 minutes of weekday early evening news. Wonder how they will fit that into the schedule - extended late evening news? I can't see lunchtime or weekends being an easy option to extend as it would mean some awkward opt-outs
I understand Wales will have an extended late bulletin.
One point from the ITV submission is that where there is are sub-regions, the content of one will usually be recorded - I.e. either Anglia West or Anglia East will be live, with the other recorded, using the same presenters.
During ITV regional news on Monday they used a reporter (I can't quite remember his name), I then looked up his name on Twitter and on his bio it said something along the lines of reporter for ITV regions. He appeared on London, Granada, Meridian, Westcountry and somewhere else which I can't reminder. This probably could be a sign of things to come - central ITV reporters offering content within the half hour slot to several regions.