Are viewers in Scotland are Northern Ireland used to having their tv schedules disrupted by England's Bank Holidays, do UTV, BBC etc provide full length regional bulletins on days such as today, and if not how do they explain the short bulletins?
I suppose it must be a bit funny for NI's viewers coming home from work and seeing a film right across the usual news hours.
Also, are there any Bank Holiday's that Scotland and/or NI take that England and Wales doesn't, (such as the 2nd January in Scotland's case), how do ITV and BBC accomodate these situations in the network schedule that allows for full length bulletins, is it something bizzare like 6.00pm Scotland Today News, 6.05 You've Been Framed, 6.30 ITV Evening News?
Well today when ITV1 had Drop the z list celeb at 5:35 - UTV had
5:15 - it should not happen to a kids tv presenter
6:15 UTV Live
6:45 ITV News
So at least they had full news.
UTV did not take the 3:00 Superman Film. They had something else.
I believe it is Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland today -- whereas the Republic and Scotland take theirs on the first Monday of August instead.
Northern Ireland have two more Bank Holidays than England and Wales do, in March and July, although if Plaid were ever to get any power [dream on] they would also place 1st March as a Bank Holiday too.
Reporting Scotland was a few minutes longer than everywhere else, but from the newsroom [no idea how I was on that channel], and they had a full Scottish forecast with Heather Thingybob instead of going to the national one.
It's about all they can do really on the BBC if the other 52 million potential viewers are on Bank Holiday.
I suppose it must be a bit funny for NI's viewers coming home from work and seeing a film right across the usual news hours.
Not a bit - today is a Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland!
Northern Ireland generally has the same bank holidays as England and Wales - but we have some extra ones - St Patrick's Day (17th March) and the Twelfth of July when we have the 12th as a public holiday and the 13th as a bank holiday.
I suppose it must be a bit funny for NI's viewers coming home from work and seeing a film right across the usual news hours.
Not a bit - today is a Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland!
Northern Ireland generally has the same bank holidays as England and Wales - but we have some extra ones - St Patrick's Day (17th March) and the Twelfth of July when we have the 12th as a public holiday and the 13th as a bank holiday.
Well if people in NI can have St Patricks Day I demand that we in Wales have St Davids Day
It does get annoying when they include us in Scotland on English bank holidays as far as tv programming goes .However living in Border TV land you get used to it we have had all sorts of crap thrown at us of the years that is NOT relevant to south Scotland from that lot at Carlisle .
We realy should be included in the Scottish TV region with our own news optout.
I think most people wouldn't notice the changes - most schedules are like any other Monday. The only major change is the James Bond film - and this time they're not showing it because it's a bank holiday.
I think most people wouldn't notice the changes - most schedules are like any other Monday. The only major change is the James Bond film - and this time they're not showing it because it's a bank holiday.
My god are ITV feeling well ? A bank holiday has gone by without a Bond film
It does get annoying when they include us in Scotland on English bank holidays as far as tv programming goes .However living in Border TV land you get used to it we have had all sorts of crap thrown at us of the years that is NOT relevant to south Scotland from that lot at Carlisle .
We realy should be included in the Scottish TV region with our own news optout.
Border have always tended to go with the network as far as programming goes. It's in the paraodixal situation that the "smaller" parts of its area - Cumbria and the IoM - have a bigger population than that of its Scottish part. Poor connections to Cumbria may be a reason why the eastern Borders gets bad coverage; its only connection to Carlisle is the A7 which is fairly bad between Langholm and Hawick. Thereafter any items filmed this end have to take account of the time taken to/from Carlisle, and via a twisty road at that. Another reason is that Border has always had to cut its financial cloth according to its width and didn't have the resources to increase coverage of the Borders; I sure it would have done so if it had had more money available.
Switching to STV seems the only solution to this problem, but it isn't as straightforward as that as Border itself would have to be dissolved via Parliament - and let's face it this is unlikely to happen just now. It might be better to wait until the outcome of the Granada/Carlton merger to see how this would affect South Scotland.
One other thing - If you watch Reporting Scotland it hardly covers the Borders at all unless a major story, such as the recent tragic death of biker Steve Hislop, breaks. I've heard that STV is just as bad; do we really want them covering the Borders when chances are that it'll be the Central Belt which gets the lion's share of the coverage?
Well, today's ITV News programmes (well, the one at lunchtime) were called the "Weekend News". I mean, I know that in England we got today off but classing it as the weekend is stretching it, surely, as well as looking ridiculous to those who didn't benefit from a lie-in this morning!
Well, today's ITV News programmes (well, the one at lunchtime) were called the "Weekend News". I mean, I know that in England we got today off but classing it as the weekend is stretching it, surely, as well as looking ridiculous to those who didn't benefit from a lie-in this morning!
They could have just gone for "the ITV NEWS with Andrea Catherwood" as they did at Xmas. It looks a lot better.
I suppose they could say it was a bank holiday weekend, and just get away with it.
