The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Do you mean Gregs great experiment? About £10 million of the £27 million it took to build Hull was allegedly spent on the gear. Apparently there is still redundant equipment from the great KIT experiment - or disaster depending on your point of view. I don't have much to do with the place now (thankfully) but there was a great deal of new technolgy experimentation and development testing. The jury is out on If it was value for money.

A blast from the past presented this afternoon's Calendar News

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I don't know but he's recently popped up on York TV... which probably has even fewer viewers than UK Conquest.

I was interested to see a Peter Lugg package on Look North (Leeds). Now as far as I know Peter moved to Look North (Newcastle) some time ago, but as we know packages are sometimes shared between neighbouring regions.

This particular piece was 16:9 - so has Newcastle got the means to produce material in widescreen and squirt it down the line to another region in 16:9 but can't transmit it as such, or was the package edited in Leeds or something?

He is, he's one of Newcastle's lead reporters.

I was talking to Peter Lugg about a year ago at a friend's party (nice guy by the way). He was telling me how most Look North reports are now a one-man operation. Basically he goes out with a lightweight DV camera and shoots everything himself, often having to use a tripod to shoot his own PTCs.

I would imagine the DV cameras, being relatively new, are 16:9 capable. It's presumably possible therefore for Newcastle to produce 16:9 reports, even if their studio and gallery are still 4:3.

Presumably if it's DV based it could be edited on computer and then sent via the network to Leeds rather than playing down the line into a video recorder at the other end?

Are Newcastle being upgraded bit by bit then? I thought Leeds were all tape based until moving out of Woodhouse Lane

I don't think the new reporter-operated cameras are so much of an upgrade as a cost-cutting exercise, so they can get rid of sound men and camera operators.

Yeah - I was meaning more upgrade the cameras and editing to be 16:9, then upgrade the studio cameras and gallery later.

Who's this bloke reading tonight's late Look North?

Have you a screenshot Andrew?

It was Phil Bodmer... and good too I thought.