The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

They have to fill the airtime with something on the many light news days & viewers opinions are endless, especially as Look ULL specialise in asking leading questions. Anything else would require creativity and there is little encouragement or expertise to do that in ULL. Gawd knows what they are going to find to fill the new politics slot.

I see that they have ripped out all of the tacky orange/yellow lump things on the columns in the old reception and fitted it with a fly lighting rig.

Just watched it via iPlayer - aesthetically, it’s not the worst thing a BBC regional news show has ever done. In fact, other than Peter practically pleading with the viewers to get in touch immediately, the whole thing flowed rather well.

Watching the first report though, which of course was full of vox-pops, I couldn’t help but wonder how many people they had to interview just to get enough people whose response was anything other than “I couldn’t care less”. I also wonder how selective they are in how they choose who makes it to air - heaven forbid someone should actually agree with whatever the council has supposedly done now.

I've a feeling this may have been posted in another thread recently, but it sums it up rather nicely...



As for the spinning Contact/Share/Like box - I've just had a look on iPlayer. It strikes me as a bit of a try-hard attempt to be modern and trendy. The animation seems to jump badly at one point... or maybe it's meant to be like that. A bad idea, executed badly.

Anybody got that BBC Radio Countyshire spoof Jingle handy?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yp5hmyk2h6zzvku/BBC_Radio_Countyshire.mp3?dl=0

Thanks, but it was the other one I was thinking of

Oh I love that!

I believe that it and the news in that Spencer posted were both produced for a conference of Local Radio managers, to gently demonstrate the absurdity of what some stations were doing. Hence the in joke about the guy having DAB in his car, I think that was one of the station managers.

There was also a station logo produced in the style the BBC stations used at the time, with handwriting font used for the names of local places within the patch. It included the names of a few of the managers which could plausibly have been names of places.

One of the problems with vox pops is that they are often done in a secondary town in the middle of the day, so the only opinions on offer come from either pensioners or unemployed chav types who shuffle about the town centre in the middle of the working day.

The ones they got on Barry Chuckle added nothing, three bland basic opinions, one even getting the name of his show wrong.

Fabulous - I’d not heard that one before.

That reminds me of a story of when that branding was first introduced. Every BBC local radio station at the time had a matching leaflet, produced centrally, to promote its services, shows and presenters.

When it came to Radio Humberside, the proofs of the leaflet were signed off, with someone at the station having checked all the copy was correct.

What they failed to spot was that surrounding the BBC Radio Humberside logo, the place names in the scrawly, handwriting text were Leighton Buzzard, Welwyn Garden City, Dunstable, Letchworth, Stevenage...

It was only noticed after thousands of the leaflets were printed and delivered to Radio Humberside, and obviously had to be destroyed. I think it caused a fair amount of embarrassment, and people were told not to talk about it. Of course, everyone did.

I do wonder though if BBC Three Counties Radio had leaflets with Beverley, Grimsby, Hessle, etc. printed on them.

A good opportunity to post this: