The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Forgive me if I'm massively wide of the mark here, but...

Wasn't there originally some BBC project-or-other that had something to do with phone lines or the internet or whatever (i.e. bugger all to do with the TV regional news programme) which was only meant to be for the Hull/E Yorks/Humberside area, but it didn't progress as planned for whatever reason so to save face for the money already thrown at BBC Hull they created a Belmont-only edition of Look North instead so that there was at least something to show for it?

I'm sure that I remember hearing something along the lines of the above, around the era that Look 'ULL was born. Might also explain why for non-news purposes (e.g. Inside Out, Sunday Politics) the original large Yorks & Lincs region remains intact, it's literally only Look North that was split.

Maybe Look 'ULL would be better scaled back to about the same level of sub-opt as Look East (Cambridge), now that sufficient "saving face" years have passed?

You're probably thinking of Kingston Interactive Television, a digital TV service run by Kingston Communications from 2000 to 2006.
https://itvt.com/story/739/kingston-interactive-television-cease-operations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/bbci_hull/project_hull/
https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/kingston-interactive-television-kit-41724/

Something had to be done with the West Yorkshire centric pan regional Look North of the past, so made sense to have a new region produced from Hull.

Lincolnshire is the real issue with this editorial area based on transmitter coverage, some have an affinity with the East Midlands, others with the East of England. This had led to some interesting editorial decisions where they've covered health stories in Leicestershire as the Lincs audience are more likely to use hospitals in Notts or Leicestershire than in Hull and others from North Norfolk which has the stronger signal from Belmont than the BBC1 East/ITV Anglia relays on Freeview.

It was the pet project of Greg Dyke, he was good friends with the then head of KC which is why the Beeb threw £24 million at it. Queens gardens was full of tech to get it to work, sadly there wasn't much talent there to provide the programming. The place was an ego fest at the beginning, it was downhill from there. A huge amount of money was wasted on an inappropriate building and silly decor.

Maybe Look 'ULL would be better scaled back to about the same level of sub-opt as Look East (Cambridge), now that sufficient "saving face" years have passed?

Though Cambridge is now a full 30 minute opt at 1830 so there isn't a sub-opt at 1830 or 2225 (not sure if they are pan-regional at lunch time still)? Do you mean sharing Breakfast bulletins and non-News opts with Leeds?

Breakfast, Lunch and Weekends joint service from Norwich.
1830 and 2225 full split from Cambridge and Norwich.
Presenters shared e.g. Amelia will cover Cambridge at times and Amanda presents Sunday bulletin.

Christmas last year saw some bulletins come from Cambrudge instead of Norwich.

Although never Stewart and Susie appear on the west edition, which at one stage got a few comments on social media saying they were missed in ''the west''. Of course, understandably so! One of the best regional duos of well over two decades at the helm.

They still have that banter. "Good evening young man" is almost a catchphrase, Peter always says it when introducing Paul.