The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

So it seems Gaynor is doing a Clare Frisby, moving from main programme to GMTV bulletins

You can tell they were running down the North/South service, both programmes running orders were pretty much identical tonight except for a few news in brief stories

The Christine and Duncan version seems to have dug out their Sheffield backdrop this week, probably to ease the transition from tommorrow

Saw Gaynor and Johns last programme - rather sad to see but nicely put by John that all good things have to come to an end. Two years ago a big fuss over Calendar going 'more local' but now just back to the how it was. I am disgusted though that Gaynor is moving to GMTV bulletins - surely features and Christine deputy would be a better role?

I imagine she will do that but has to have a proper day job as well

Carolyn tended to do features as well as GMTV

With John back doing Sport I hope they reintroduce a proper sports bit as this has been lacking recently on Calendar and with Look North using Tanya Arnold in the studio more, Calendar has fallen behind on the sports coverage

A few years back now John collected an award for YTV Calendar Sport and mentioned that the buget wasnt there anymore so its likely that at the time its was going to be their last award for sport anyway.

I do hope we continue to see more of Gaynor. Shes just got that warming personality, which I dont get from Christine.

Christine and Duncan mention anything tonight?

Is it a move really worthy of disgust when you consider many of her colleagues have been redeployed to the dole queue?

Certainly seems preferable to the Tyne Tees newsreader who has had to move to doing the weather.

Vicky Locklin left last night by the way

Next to no mention of the changes on tonight's programme, only that they were glad that 'all of us' had joined them and that there would be news from 'right across the Calendar region'

Good to see lots of well known long term Calendar reporters such as Chris Kiddey and Karen Petch reporting, so presumably not made redundant

I mean in terms of Christine being 'prefered' over Gaynor. When in my opinion Gaynor is has much more warmth and personality.

Christine is presenting the late bulletins - about time she started pulling her weight!!

So it looks like the entire days output will be hosted by just 3 presenters

The 'and finally' story was tonight by Carolyn Hodgson, so she's still there. It was oddly a story from Barnoldswick which last time I looked was in Lancashire

Yorkshire prior to 1974 - they still get a YTV signal.

Same thing's happening on Granada, rather than having a different presenter for the post News At Ten/Late News, they usually get one half of whoever's presenting the 6pm programme. I suppose it makes sense when they're only on at 1.55pm, 6.00pm and 10.30/11.30pm. (And GMTV, but thats different)