The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

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.

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?

I guess one of the reasons the BBC - and emergency services - cling onto the name is that it's much less of a mouthful than "East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire" (the rest of Lincolnshire having never been part of Humberside). The name makes sense geographically and could have worked for the BBC LR station as well as an informal name for the estuary area had the Local Government Act 1972 not redrawn the borders as it did, but it didn't go down well with East Yorkshire folk when used in an official capacity. I understand Radio Humberside is not especially popular south of the Humber in areas which are not in Radio Lincolnshire's editorial patch.

Further up the North East coast there's BBC Tees (which is what Radio Cleveland changed to over a decade after that county was abolished). So how about BBC Humber or BBC Hull as alternative names for Radio Humberside?

I have never understood from any of the BBC management why they cling to the name. The excuse they always trot out is that they were there first (1971) but that in itself was a political creation because the government needed a unified area to justify building the bridge. It was only built because Labour looked to be losing its seat in Hull which would have brought down the government at the time...

Seats plural - there's three.

Yes I agree, the radio station is in effect radio Hull - very downmarket and like Look Levy doesn't represent the area well at all. I remember when I returned to the area on annual leave a few months ago I switched on the local news to see Levy telling the viewers that a local cat had died - how they get away with it I just dont know.

BBC Hull would alienate those on the south bank even more, but BBC Humber would work.