The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

I thought that the South Yorks & N Derbyshire/N Notts parts of the region were tied to the Belmont opt, but those weathermaps suggest that Calendar sub-regions now mirror how BBC Look North is split. If so, when did it change?

That's an interesting point, the East edition still does quite regularly include stories from Chesterfield and around that area, so I thought it was still part of the East opt out.

Looks like they're also ignoring the North Norfolk patch as you can barely even see it on the map now, not like Look North where the weather forecast even had Fakenham on the towns and cities summary bit over the weekend, first time I've ever seen Look North mention somewhere as deep into Norfolk as that.

A full length Calendar from 1992 on Youtube. Very serious, rather than double headed its more like two separate people single heading, also not one but two lengthy sub-opts, and not one but two weather forecasts.

I'm a bit bemused by something in that video...

At about 30:53 is what I presume to be the end of the North/West sub-opt (on the balcony set), handing back to one of the main presenters in the main studio/set. I'm a bit bemused that she then name-checks the sub-opt presenter ("thank you, John"). Unless all three sub-opts were presented by people who all happened to be named John, then surely she should have said something more generic? Or was that still part of the sub-regionalised section of the programme? If so, then I cannot fathom the structure of the splits at all. Can anyone enlighten me please?

I have a childhood memory of seeing Calendar during a family holiday to Skegness in the early 1990s. I remember that it was billed in TV Times as starting at 5.55pm, although in practice may have started slightly later than that depending on the timing of when the ITN Early Evening News / ITV National Weather ended. There was little or no commercial break after the ITV National Weather - possibly just a programme trailer or two, at the most - before the YTV ident/clock. A brief pan-regional greeting/opening link then threw to the sub-regional opts (of which I saw the East/Hull version), with the pan-regional programme proper starting at about 18:00. The title sequence wasn't the one shown in the video above, but looked like this...

...and the main pan-regional sections of the programme were presented from sofas in the midst of the newsroom. Which I thought was the best look for any regional news programme I had ever seen up until that point in my life. Actually I'm not sure that it has ever been equalled or bettered in my mind, from that day to this!

I believe that BBC and ITV regions aligned more in the years running up to digital switchover. I think there were some relays that took ITV Yorkshire and BBC North West until about 10-15 years ago.

Lincoln Central took ITV Yorkshire and BBC East Midlands while it was analogue only. No idea what it takes now.

Lincoln Central is now a full relay of Belmont, so has Look North Hull. Gravesend was another that used to take BBC1 from Bluebell Hill and ITV from Crystal Palace, that relay is now CP only, so BBC London.

The "thank you John" may have been a cockup, I imagine the studio monitors would have been showing the Emley version and she may have just said it on auto pilot.

Duncan Wood reporting live from Kos on tonights National Evening news. Credited as 'ITV Yorkshire's Duncan Wood' by James Mates.

I have to say the reporting and coverage of the Ben Needham investigation by Calendar has been absolutely excellent, not only on TV, but online and using Facebook Live as well. Whilst the coverage has been extensive, they've avoided being sensational and got the tone just right, showing great sensitivity in such a sad story. It's really felt like they're in touch with the feelings of the local community.

Well done to Duncan and the team in Kos.

Duncan opening and presenting the programme live from Kos tonight, as opposed to simply reporting. Once again handling the story with great respect, whilst still being informative. Completely agree with Spencer's praise for Calendar's reporting over the past few weeks.

On another note Amy Garcia returns to Look North tonight after her maternity leave, but Lara is remaining with the programme.

Look Hull rather confused with Lincolnshire sport last night.

They spelt Stamford incorrectly, playing in the FA Cup Qualifying round, as well as giving a FA Cup replay result as 0-0, where Lincoln actually won 2-1.....