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AN
Andrew Founding member
Did Calendar do a live from the Great Yorkshire Show today? Tyne Tees had Amy Lea all the way down in Harrogate.

They went through a phase where they only had a live report from the show which looked poor compared to the BBC but this year they were right to do the whole programme from there.


On Look North it was Harry Gration, Keeley Donovan and Paul Hudson, with Charlotte Leeming back in the studio with a short news round up.

On Calendar it was John Shires, Gaynor Barnes and Jon Mitchell with Michael Billington back in the studio with a short news round up.
RI
Richard
Full length programme now, at 5:30pm. Odd to see it preceding the national news, suppose it’s to keep the News at Six at 6pm though. Strange that it’s been altered though, for the rest of the World Cup it seemed they’d rather just shorten the news than have it move to before 6pm. Suppose Wimbledon being in the mix complicates things though.

Possibly the news this week dictates that a full bulletin at 6pm is required.

I wonder whether there will be regional idents at 5:30. They haven’t had idents of any kind into the regional news for some time now, only into national news.

The heavy news we’ve had this week definitely seems a reasonable explanation.

When a similar situation occurred a couple of years ago with Wimbledon , I recall some regions doing their own ident and announcement, but most just going for network’s generic “the news where you are” ident and announcement.


Yes, that was certainly the case here in the North West. Interesting to see that North West Tonight had a proper close, immediately followed by the Six O’Clock news which didn’t have a proper close at all.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Generic network continuity into BBC London News with Ashleigh Whitfield, local continuity on BBC One Yorkshire.
WL
W1LL
Did Calendar do a live from the Great Yorkshire Show today? Tyne Tees had Amy Lea all the way down in Harrogate.

They went through a phase where they only had a live report from the show which looked poor compared to the BBC but this year they were right to do the whole programme from there.


On Look North it was Harry Gration, Keeley Donovan and Paul Hudson, with Charlotte Leeming back in the studio with a short news round up.

On Calendar it was John Shires, Gaynor Barnes and Jon Mitchell with Michael Billington back in the studio with a short news round up.

Owain doing the weather in Levyland. Odd as we had Paul yesterday, even though he was still at the GYS then too. Was Hudson on earlier than normal on the Leeds programme, meaning he couldn’t do the Hull forecast?
AN
Andrew Founding member
Not particularly, I’m guessing they can’t do a link into another programme whilst broadcasting their own programme from an OB. He would have had to pre record it.

I like the way on Calendar they always go through the motions of sending Jon away to do the weather, even though the weather that then comes on is pre recorded with two different versions.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
There's something weird going on with Look North and the aspect ratios.

Most of the time, there is a slight pillarboxing, as you seem to get all the time on network material on BBC One SD on satellite. I guess most people have their sets configured with a slight overscan so that's not an issue.

However, the regional ident is full frame, as was live material from the Great Yorkshire Show. The opening to the programme was pre-recorded and had the pillarboxing, but the live studio shots and the packages played out had it too.

So that leads me to suspect that the pillarboxing shown on network material is a result of the round trip through the regional centres - it's there on all of the the English regions (which I assume have similar network switching kit), but not the nations SD feeds.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Not particularly, I’m guessing they can’t do a link into another programme whilst broadcasting their own programme from an OB. He would have had to pre record it.


Owain would have had to be on shift anyway to do the radio forecasts, so he might as well do Hull - especially if editorially they weren't covering the GYS.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Of course they should in reality cover the GYS, and maybe do a joint programme with a sub opted news round up?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
A joint programme with NE&C is more likely, like Calendar and Tyne Tees used to.
AN
Andrew Founding member
A joint programme with NE&C is more likely, like Calendar and Tyne Tees used to.


I’m guessing that would have been in the days of Bilsdale having a separate edition.

I’m not sure spending half an hour telling geordies how great Yorkshire is would seem that relevant.

Although I suppose that would apply to Lincs on LN Hull as well, but I imagine they are used to it.
RI
Richard
A joint programme with NE&C is more likely, like Calendar and Tyne Tees used to.


I’m guessing that would have been in the days of Bilsdale having a separate edition.

I’m not sure spending half an hour telling geordies how great Yorkshire is would seem that relevant.

Although I suppose that would apply to Lincs on LN Hull as well, but I imagine they are used to it.


Was there ever any ill-feeling about “Yorkshire Television” broadcasting to other counties? Did anyone feel the name was inappropriate?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
That's why they like the term "the Calendar region" as it avoids the issue!

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