The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

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.

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.

Generic network continuity into BBC London News with Ashleigh Whitfield, local continuity on BBC One Yorkshire.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Of course they should in reality cover the GYS, and maybe do a joint programme with a sub opted news round up?

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?

That's why they like the term "the Calendar region" as it avoids the issue!