The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Sorry to mention this for what feels like the thousandth time, but Filey is Bilsdale on DTT (virtually every aerial in the town points there, it gives the best signal, and both NE&C and Tyne Tees have always covered Filey). The Sky region is set to Look North Leeds.

It's an interesting one. Filey is certainly in Bilsdale's official service area, but then so are York and Harrogate which are very definitely considered to be Emley territory for editorial purposes.
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/bilsdale/maps.php

Looking at various maps and coverage predictors it seems that the people of Filey have a choice of all three Look North services, from Bilsdale, Hunmanby and Oliver's Mount, and a quick look at Street View suggests that lots of households have multiple aerials for that purpose

I suggest that if Sky defaults to Leeds, that is a pretty good indication of the BBC's intention in terms of which region is intended to primarily cover the area. And it makes sense - Filey is part of Scarborough, so local politics are going to be covered on the programme that covers Scarborough.

The anomaly seems to be why Oliver's Mount is a relay of Emley, which seems to be for historical reasons so as to replicate the 405 line service with the old YTV transmitter at Scarborough. It would perhaps make more sense for it to relay Bilsdale these days.

The so-called split region cuts Filey off from Bridlington and the rest of the East Riding off from Yorkshire. Most in East Yorkshire (who don't work locally) work in Leeds or York - That is their region. Since creating this non-regionThe BBC have continually been in denial. I remember Colin Philpot the old HLRP saying the only thing the new region has is a transmitter, and we have our work cut out to make it work.
BBC Hull has the same management as Leeds now (based in Leeds) They don't need the extravagant set up in Queens gardens, the Money could be better spent elsewhere, City of Culture is coming to a close - Its time for BBC Hull to go the same way.

Yes, though so is Whitby, and that town's relay carries Bilsdale stuff ! (Although I'm not sure it can get a decent off air feed signal from anywhere else ? (It also carries BBC Radio Tees)),



Perhaps ! It's all a case of the mid Dorset syndrome (very similar three way split limited by technical constraints too)

No need to apologize. I did specifically ask about this, so thanks.



Non-region? But isn't the BBC Yorks and Lincs region almost the same as Humberside? Which means, it's the same region covered by the local police force and fire brigade? Which means even the government treat it as an actual region?

Like all TV regions, it's based on transmitter coverage. Here's Belmont's main (and in light green gross) coverage
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/belmont/belmont-625uhf-iba-map.jpg

Dangerous territory mentioning the H word, but the Humberside police and fire services cover approx 1/3 of the area shown in the map above.

* NOTE, back in the early 80s to combat private housing overruling the IBA etc a sub transmitter was built around King's lynn so viewers could watch Anglia TV instead. I don;t believe anyone in that part watch Yorkshire.

Indeed and despite the coverage map, due to topography much of west and south Lincoln aerials point to Waltham instead.

Yes, there's a large overlap where both transmitters provide excellent signal

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/mapsys/anatv/waltham.gif

Its a shame that transmitter wasn't a bit more powerful so it could reach Peterborough and Northampton.

It reaches Peterborough no problem at all, a friend the same distance away again in Ely gets it fine still.
The light blue is gross coverage, just that it's not as good as other transmitters,