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AN
Andrew Founding member
Amanda Harper in front of a green screen tonight it seems, obviously due to The Super League Show following straight afterwards.

9 days later

RH
richard h
Problems with the start of tonights Calendar, Everything failed to play except for the sound effect that introduces the next headline, No apology given and we crashed into Christine reading the first story

Edit: 18:25: Lost Calendar all together in Leeds

Edit: 18:30: No Itv 1 on analogue but working ok on digital
Last edited by richard h on 21 June 2011 6:31pm - 3 times in total
JT
jolly turnip
Feasible that Leeds had the recorded version as start to the programme then?
AN
Andrew Founding member
I thought in Yorkshire we only had the recorded news round up bit in the middle, the start of the programme is live for everyone (although the headlines would be recorded in any case), unlike Tyne Tees/Border etc.

Those headlines did seem odd, especially with the picture of the hit and run victim stuck on screen for ages at the start.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Ian White has just announced that that was his last bulletin for Look North after 13 years.

He didn't say where he was going though, which might suggest it is outside of the BBC.
DF
DrewF
That's a real shame - I always liked him. I wonder where he's off to, if anywhere that we'll be seeing?
ST
South Today
That was a surprise but alas Ian didn't seem to be doing as much as he once used too! He hasn't presented the main programme with Christa in over a year.
JA
Jamesypoo
Sounds like it wasn't Ian's idea...

@IanTVam on Twitter posted:
Very sad not to be presenting @BBCLookNorth anymore but when boss says it is time for a change so be it.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Maybe they are scrapping the separate late bulletin reader job like Calendar did as part of cut backs?
TW
Tom W
Maybe they are scrapping the separate late bulletin reader job like Calendar did as part of cut backs?


Statement released by Look North, on their Facebook page:

Quote:
We can confirm that Ian White will no longer present our 10.25pm bulletin. We would like to thank Ian for the tremendous amount of hard work he has put into the programme over the past 13 years. Ian will continue to work on BBC Look North and- in line with many other BBC regional news programmes- in future our 6:30pm presenters will anchor the 10:25pm news.
DF
DrewF
Maybe they are scrapping the separate late bulletin reader job like Calendar did as part of cut backs?


Statement released by Look North, on their Facebook page:

Quote:
We can confirm that Ian White will no longer present our 10.25pm bulletin. We would like to thank Ian for the tremendous amount of hard work he has put into the programme over the past 13 years. Ian will continue to work on BBC Look North and- in line with many other BBC regional news programmes- in future our 6:30pm presenters will anchor the 10:25pm news.


It'll be similar to Calendar's system then, with one presenter doing the lunchtime, both doing the evening program, and the other doing the late bulletin.
AN
Andrew Founding member
I can't imagine Christa liking that idea.

It will presumably also mean Harry will do the 8pm update sometimes, which is a lot different than initially when the bulletin was the preserve of young females in many other regions.

If he is staying at Look North, I'm sure he'll keep appearing, just like Tom Ingall does.

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