I didn't see last night's edition but your argument is a compelling one. The lead item sounds from your description like something very generic that could be slotted in to the middle of the show on any day this week, it doesn't seem time sensitive.
It's almost like BBC regional policy at the moment is to be used for sheer propaganda purposes.....
Very true indeed. The national teams are doing a superb job but its the presence of a local presenter who is experiencing the same situation as we are is comforting in a way the London bulletins simply can't be
Abolishing the smaller bulletins would be wrong. Its a case of balancing financial necessity with the PSB requirements. I don't think it's the number of cities and towns that a region covers is important its the fact that they
are
being covered. To my mind Hull and Lincoln are deserving of the same level of coverage as Leeds and Sheffield.
I think the fact that the local bulletins ratings have shot up due to coverage will be used by the BBC as evidence that local news coverage is equally as important as national and world news and that they should be protected.
The switching still happens at Leeds I believe so the cheaper and cost effective method is for Leeds to record two shows - one for Hull, one for Leeds, with one going live.
Indeed with CV they could have done this NOW and mothballed Hull.
I thought it was the case that the BBC do not ever pre-record the news as a policy?
In this environment where the rules are out of the window it's a strange policy to keep.
The switching still happens at Leeds I believe so the cheaper and cost effective method is for Leeds to record two shows - one for Hull, one for Leeds, with one going live.
Indeed with CV they could have done this NOW and mothballed Hull.
I thought it was the case that the BBC do not ever pre-record the news as a policy?
In this environment where the rules are out of the window it's a strange policy to keep.
If
you were going to combine the two operations, surely a combined (live) programme would be better than having to produce double the number of editions, with lower staffing levels and all of the unnecessary upheaval and challenges that would bring.
There used to be a pan regional Calendar AISTR. Returning to such a situation may not please some viewers but its a case of safety first.
Yep, it's ludicrous that both Leeds and 'Ull are effectively doing the same stories but micro-regionally and with the drumming weatherman yesterday, pan-regionally!
I think the 6pm was pan regional for much of the 90s potentially all the way through to when it was Christine and Duncan with one in the studio and one on the road. They would always have a news summary/roundup with another reporter or presenter in a CSO studio.
I grew up in the Rotherham borough but kind of in between Rotherham, Doncaster ansd Barnsley. We had what was then Yorkshire Cable then Telewest. The main 103 channel back then was the Leeds edition of Calender where the roundup was mainly West Yorkshire stories with some South Yorkshire/Derbyshire stories for those that could not get Calendar South. 120 was ITVS i.e Calendar South
IIRC about 10 minutes in they would throw to the Summary and on some editions a screen showing all 3 reports for Calendar News, East and South would appear before going to the Reporter with "the news from your part of the Calendar region".
Now they could pre records these summaries and broadcast the old 3 sub regions of West, East and South if using the same presenters of the programme for the news summaries. Each sub region could then potentially get more news from their part. I know from my parents who still live where I grew up that they don't also care about some of the stories from West or East Yorkshire that are currently in the Calender programme as it is now.
