SW England news thread

It's like that, because the BBC Weather dept insist on showing any weather map as an oblique view. The wider shot of the British Isles suffer the same distortion. It's the same here in BBC South land. Of course, it also makes the distance from the IOW to Banbury look the same as the IOW to Brighton, masking the fact the region is ridiculously large.

I take your point, but having now looked at the replay, the map Richard used in Bristol last evening was significantly MORE out-of-shape than either those used in normal circumstances by David in Plymouth, or those used in London when a national forecaster does a "down-the-line".

Similarly, if PW take a down-the-line, the map is always far LESS stretched than the normal one Richard uses on the Bristol screen.

It's been like it ever since Bristol started to use the ex-jumble-sale, BBC Three set, so I think it IS an issue with the screen itself.

Westcountry Live have just slaged off the plans to scrap ITv Westcountry, think the only person in the report that was pro merge was the ITV Westcountry boss!!

Alexis Bowater seems to be back on Westcountry Live - just watching tonight's edition on t'internet...

When did she come back from maternity leave, because I haven't been watching Westcountry News much lately....

Bowater came back on the 10th of September.

Already WCN is starting to look bad. At least Mark and Jemma were on last night.

Didn't see that, but did notice in the Western Morning News and on The Politics Show that the boss concerned is already also boss of ITV West...

Indeed.

That's been the case for over a year, ever since West was severed from Wales in the great ITV management plan.

Plymouth seems to be operating in a different time zone this morning for their 6:25 bulletin during Breakfast. It meant I wasn't running late for work at all; I'd actually finished 2 hours ago and should be eating my tea!

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/break1.jpg

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/break_2.jpg

Ha! The cleaner must have unplugged the clock!

Obviously the cleaner was the only one with the technical skill to put the plug back in as the clock didn't reappear on any bulletin for the rest of today's programme. (That's what you get with staff cuts)

This is going to give ITV a major problem after the full merger.

It'll be like the introduction to Two-Way Family Favourites on the old Light Programme in the fifties.

"The time in Bristol is six-o'clock, the time in Plymouth is four-forty-five, and it's time for the news for the entire region here on ITV Everywhere in the Bottom Left Hand Corner."

And I pity the poor cat whose whiskers were used in the reception process.


I think in the end we may be grateful for even that mere mention of regionality!