The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread - Page 269

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TROGGLES 8 January 2007 2:50pm

Work of Artifice posted:

Can there be anyone alive that won't totally relish Calendar East thoroughly trouncing The Peter Levy Show in the ratings?

Its a nice thought to think that that stupid smirk and arrogance on the Peter Levy Show will be wiped off. My concern is that many of the viewers live in Hull & the East Riding (East of the Wolds) and are stuck with the Belmont signal. If they concentrate too much on Lincolnshire stories it will not work. One of the best things about Calendar before the split was that these people could still get news that concerned them. If the don't bother with stories from North of the Humber then nothing will be achieved. Much of the reason that Calendar split was based on research in Lincolnshire. Hull was too harder nut to crack because Uncle Levy was based there. So will they make the mistake & just go for the Lincolnshire angle?
Fingers crossed they don't make a similar mess of Calendar as the BBC did with Look North.

RM

Roger Mellie 8 January 2007 4:50pm

TROGGLES posted:

Work of Artifice posted:

Can there be anyone alive that won't totally relish Calendar East thoroughly trouncing The Peter Levy Show in the ratings?

Its a nice thought to think that that stupid smirk and arrogance on the Peter Levy Show will be wiped off. My concern is that many of the viewers live in Hull & the East Riding (East of the Wolds) and are stuck with the Belmont signal. If they concentrate too much on Lincolnshire stories it will not work. One of the best things about Calendar before the split was that these people could still get news that concerned them. If the don't bother with stories from North of the Humber then nothing will be achieved. Much of the reason that Calendar split was based on research in Lincolnshire. Hull was too harder nut to crack because Uncle Levy was based there. So will they make the mistake & just go for the Lincolnshire angle?
Fingers crossed they don't make a similar mess of Calendar as the BBC did with Look North.

I'm confused... didn't the old Calendar East segment cover the East Riding? It was it just Lincs, north Norfolk, north Notts and the northern fringe of Cambs?

Looking at the coverage map of Belmont, the whole of East Riding is very much in the transmitter's range. I hope YTV don't make a mess of it, about time Mr Levy's smugness suffered a blow

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 8 January 2007 5:22pm

Looks like Calendar East are going to follow in Look Norths footsteps with a light entertainment personality guest, Ken Dodd.

No doubt they'll be sharing all the same guests with West.

BS

brotherton sands 8 January 2007 5:28pm

Roger Mellie posted:

I'm confused... didn't the old Calendar East segment cover the East Riding? It was it just Lincs, north Norfolk, north Notts and the northern fringe of Cambs?

Looking at the coverage map of Belmont, the whole of East Riding is very much in the transmitter's range. I hope YTV don't make a mess of it, about time Mr Levy's smugness suffered a blow

I think "officially" The East Riding was always in the old "Calendar East" area, but in practice much of the East Riding got the Leeds/North/West (whatever) version. And that will therefore continue even with the new 6pm arrangements.

I think what TROGGLES was actually getting at, is that the new "East/South" Calendar might actually acknowledge the fact that much of the East Riding doesn't really pick up "East" (i.e. by editorially ignoring it (or at least most of it)).

A comment earlier in the thread seemed to imply that the YTV Hull facility is now disused (?), so I presume that the new Lincoln office is the sole newsgathering centre for the "East" programme? (Or, at least, instead of, rather than as well as Hull)?????

Adding further reason to suspect that the new "East/South" programme may acknowledge very little north of the Humber?

In which case, the two new programmes are more North/South than West/East. Or even Northwest/Southeast, to be really pedantic.

AJ

A.J.A. 8 January 2007 6:23pm

Question on Calendar East/South tonight - what year was "ITV Yorkshire" created. Now was that 2004, 2002 or err... 1968?

SP

Steve in Pudsey 8 January 2007 6:32pm

Work of Artifice posted:

A comment earlier in the thread seemed to imply that the YTV Hull facility is now disused (?), so I presume that the new Lincoln office is the sole newsgathering centre for the "East" programme? (Or, at least, instead of, rather than as well as Hull)?????

Presumably the Sheffield newsroom will contribute to both programmes

SP

Steve in Pudsey 8 January 2007 6:41pm

Look Hull had a scoop tonight, a furniture retailler has uncovered evidence of terrorist plots

Quote:

Soldiers are being brought in to guard Britain's energy plants after MFI discovered Al-Quaeda plans to blow them up

umm I think you meant MI5, Peter

MU

mullet 8 January 2007 7:00pm

Not only that, but Levy breathlessly introduced a story with the words "Look North has learned..." It turned out that Look North had learned how to read the Sunday newspapers, which is where the story came from.

Began the programme by saying "live from Hull" (as opposed to Leeds). A coincidence, of course. Still, the air ambulance story made for a nice package, which is probably why it's being dragged out over the next two nights as well.

SA

salceyboy 8 January 2007 7:02pm

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Look Hull had a scoop tonight, a furniture retailler has uncovered evidence of terrorist plots

Quote:
Soldiers are being brought in to guard Britain's energy plants after MFI discovered Al-Quaeda plans to blow them up

Enough said!!

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Question on Calendar East/South tonight - what year was "ITV Yorkshire" created. Now was that 2004, 2002 or err... 1968?

Mid 1970s for people in the Calendar east region.

Was there something in the water tonight.

Sorry to say Hull look North is a load of rubbish, but on tonights evidence Calendar is not going to be much better.... Ken Dodd, Elvis, Jolly Weatherman banter and a text line quiz.. Yes it is the Peter Levy show ITV version!

MU

mullet 8 January 2007 7:07pm

The ITV Yorkshire (yuck) website has an interesting take on how the region will be split - much of the East Riding seems to have been cast into the sea:

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Current Calendar presenters Christine Talbot and Duncan Wood will be seen by viewers across West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire and some parts of South Yorkshire. While Gaynor Barnes and John Shires, also familiar as they have both been with the Calendar for several years, will present a separate programme to viewers in Lincolnshire, The Humber, South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire.
http://www.itvregions.com/Yorkshire/Regional+Affairs/New+Calendar+Sees+Biggest+Change+in+40+Years+at+6pm+tonight.htm

TV

tvmercia Founding member 8 January 2007 7:27pm

A.J.A. posted:

Question on Calendar East/South tonight - what year was "ITV Yorkshire" created. Now was that 2004, 2002 or err... 1968?

well according to another thread on this forum, itv yorkshire was registered at companies house on 29/12/06

AN

Andrew Founding member 8 January 2007 8:19pm