The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

They have a Wilberforce editor who has been appointed on a years contract so they are proberbly justifying thier rather tenuous position

Coincidentally I got this email yesterday:
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If I recall correctly, the lady in question wasn't named-- part of a vox pop. I too went to Lincoln Uni, but I don't recognise her!

I hear off my spy that she may be a trainee broadcaster for his Levyness now (she gets his tea and scones in other words )

Indeed it is: Hull accent. Bizarrely Liz McDonald on Coro speaks with an East Riding accent, yet Beverely Callard comes from Leeds?

Whilst the Channel Islands have their own parliaments, so scope for news there. However as you point out the land area and population is nowhere near as big as the Belmont coverage area.

We wouldn't want Levy's blue-rinsers in Chapel St Leonards switching off do we? Somebody needs to get stroppy with councillors over bus shleters, on behalf of the miserable old bags in the area after all

Bus shelters, beach huts - same thing in Chapel, really.

Clearly Peter prefers to listen to Classic FM over the Radio Humberside breakfast show.

I am missing the show tonight so will have to take Peter's advise and catch up on www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull

Peeta's seat must be very uncomfortable tonight. He keeps shuffling foward, and flapping his left elbow about. Least he was in heaven today, with two officials to be abusive to simultaneously. ODing on the "thanks very much indeed"s tonight as a result.

i thought most regions had a wilberforce coordinator?

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Were you watching on the online player? Everyone seems to look thinner on there than on my TV - makes me wonder if the aspect ratio is slightly wrong.

Anyone notice how all the regional announcements at say 10 o'clock have all been redone with a female voice and sounding a bit rushed. I thought it was just for strange presenter combinations, but they've all been replaced even for common ones like 'Fiona Bruce and Ian White'

Fantastic show last night

The 'news' summary consisted of something about the closure of Hull schools, again, an anecdote about a cancer sufferer receiving a revolutionary drug, John Prescott remaining in hospital and wait for it, a missing dog (although it'd had an impact on an autistic child I really don't call it that newsworthy).

Not to mention a photograph that the director liked, an in-depth interview about our favourite person William Wilberforce and, of course, an update on the Springwatch.

Strong evidence that the cost of setting up the Hull opt-out was worth it . At least it was full of Levyisms.

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How's about them blatantly copying Calendar ? I'm being serious.

Leeds pan-regional bulletins most of the time, and seperate Leeds/Hull 6:30pm weekday programmes only (with the Hull 6:30pm programme also covering S Yorks & N midlands - again, exactly like Calendar ). No?

Having wasted so much money on the BBC Hull building, a total back-pedal (i.e. totally scrapping the Hull region) would be too embarrasing for the Beeb. Retaining BBC Hull for just a short 7-10 minute sub-opt wouldn't be much better either. So, seperate 6:30pm programmes is the logical solution.

Given that the the largely rural county of Lincolnshire means that Belmont-land alone is not very news-rich outside of Hull, adding the Sheffield transmitter area would make the Hull programme more viable, in terms of having enough news content.

This would also get round the current problem that the BBC are trying to run two fully seperate regions with only one-and-a-bit regions' worth of staff/resources.

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You'd think.

After a year and a half of my Journalism degree I realised what a complete waste of time it was, and quit.