The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Gaynor is presenting tonight's calendar with Rachel Townsend, first time I think, is John Shires, David Hirst, Jon Hill or Frazer Maude not available to cover or is it a last minute thing. Also Chris Dawkes was doin the sport, could Rachel not do the sport, I remember seeing her do the sport back in the day.

Also Claire Ashforth making her return to calendar tonight on the late update.

I can't remember the last time Frazer Maude appeared on the programme, in any capacity, let alone presenting.

He's been an occasional host since November 2014.

Currently watching Calendar (Emley opt) in glorious HD thanks to the test stream which is now live on DSat!

Freq: 11097
Polarisation: Vertical
Mode: DVB-S2, 8PSK
Symbol Rate: 23000
FEC: 3/4
Stream labelled 21040

ITV Yorkshire HD has launched at last, broadcasting on satellite. I'm watching Calendar in HD for the first time.

Edit: Beaten to it

Still Granada on DSat in Belmont region. I wonder when it'l launch here and whether it will show the Belmont or Emley version.

It's the Emley version (Yorkshire West), I imagine it will replace ITV Granada HD in both Yorkshire subregions.

It'll be whichever of those two sub-regions has the greatest population density (regardless of physical size), and therefore the greatest number of potential viewers, I would expect.

That seems to be how the other HD variants have been determined.

Hence, viewers across the massive Meridian West area (from Banbury to Weymouth, to the Isle of Wight) are stuck with the news for Kent/East Sussex on ITV HD (surely by far the smallest BBC/ITV English television region?).

During whichever particular decade/century/lifetime they ever actually sodding well get around to introducing an ITV West Country HD (getting Central West in Cornwall is way beyond ridiculous ), you can bet your granny that it'll be the "HTV" version carried pan-regionally.

EDIT: I was still typing my post when Revitt posted.

Thanks for that you two. Based on that criteria I always wondered why the +1 feed shows Belmont even in Emley Moor's territory.

The +1 for Yorkshire switched to the Emley version last summer, it used to be the Belmont version (there's only one +1 version for each region, so ITV+1 from Belmont and Emley is the same, both showing ITV Yorkshire West). This was unusual in that all the other ITV regions with subregions have carried the subregion covering the largest population as the +1 - Anglia East +1, Meridian South East +1 and Central West +1.

Sorry if I've not worded that very well, it's getting a bit late.

I'd be surprised if ITV West Country HD was far away. Tests have appeared for Anglia, followed by Tyne Tees and Yorkshire over the last few days. I've no idea if a full roll-out is planned, but it'd seem strange for such a large region to be ignored. As you say though, it'll probably be the HTV opt.