The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread - Page 714

Not really enough to justify getting a reporter in Jersey to do an OB. It's almost as if the editor there sniffs out a national story to see if there is a "Levy angle" on it. Instead of actually looking out for news in the area.

SW

Steve Williams 24 January 2019 8:39am

dazza1976 posted:

The pilot was from Lincolnshire?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46966424

Yes, and a local man dying in a high profile plane crash that is the main story on the national news is absolutely a legitimate story for the local news. You may wish to compare it to the Scunthorpe Telegraph website which has it as the top story and three of the top five stories, plus rolling live coverage - https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe. So it's clearly big news in Scunthorpe.

BBC Wales are covering it in great depth despite it not happening in Wales and neither person involved being from Wales. Presumably that's not right either.

By this regard you can suggest they shouldn't feature anything a local MP does in Parliament. They're not doing it in the region.

DA

dazza1976 24 January 2019 12:11pm

Steve Williams posted:

dazza1976 posted:

The pilot was from Lincolnshire?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46966424

Yes, and a local man dying in a high profile plane crash that is the main story on the national news is absolutely a legitimate story for the local news. You may wish to compare it to the Scunthorpe Telegraph website which has it as the top story and three of the top five stories, plus rolling live coverage - https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe. So it's clearly big news in Scunthorpe.

BBC Wales are covering it in great depth despite it not happening in Wales and neither person involved being from Wales. Presumably that's not right either.

By this regard you can suggest they shouldn't feature anything a local MP does in Parliament. They're not doing it in the region.

Many thanks, but I was just pointing out the local connection 😉

SP

Spencer 24 January 2019 12:27pm

Alex Plain-Later posted:

I think that at least a partial sub-opt is justified, as having e.g. Settle and Hunstanton in the same single uber-region is not ideal. But the full Leeds/Hull split for all bulletins was perhaps never truly necessary.

The pan-regional/sub-regional compromise approach has long worked well for Look East, after all.

And, of course, for all non-news stuff (e.g. Inside Out, Sunday Politics, and the now-defunct Late Kick Off) the whole Yorks & Lincs region has continually remained un-split anyway.

Plus, of course, the Breakfast bulletins reverted to being pan-regional a couple of years ago - albeit presented from Hull rather than Leeds.

SW

Steve Williams 24 January 2019 12:59pm

dazza1976 posted:

Many thanks, but I was just pointing out the local connection 😉

I know, the comment wasn't aimed at your post - for which, many thanks.

SP

Steve in Pudsey 24 January 2019 1:36pm

If it's a reporter who was there anyway reporting for other BBC outlets, getting them to do an extra live or as-live hit for Hull hasn't cost anybody anything.

BA

bilky asko 24 January 2019 2:29pm

Is this the blue rinse brigade we keep hearing about in this thread?

RA

radiolistener 10 February 2019 11:24am

Embarrassing isn't it, what the people of 'Ull are given as "news".

TR

TROGGLES 11 February 2019 11:52am

radiolistener posted:

Embarrassing isn't it, what the people of 'Ull are given as "news".

It's equally embarrassing that the people in East Yorkshire are forgotten about altogether. They get no local news from anywhere in Yorkshire at all - just a lot of stuff about deepest & irrelevant Lincolnshire

RA

radiolistener 11 February 2019 4:44pm

TROGGLES posted:

radiolistener posted:

Embarrassing isn't it, what the people of 'Ull are given as "news".

It's equally embarrassing that the people in East Yorkshire are forgotten about altogether. They get no local news from anywhere in Yorkshire at all - just a lot of stuff about deepest & irrelevant Lincolnshire

And not a lot of that, given their reticence to pay for the Humber Bridge tolls!

'Ull Today with Uncle Peter.