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RW

RW 4 October 2001 3:28pm

Radio Times has used the phrase 'Regional news magazines' since around 1981 (except for a brief time in 1984 when they were listed as 'Regional magazines'), probably to indicate that they have magazine-type features as well as hard news.

RT also used to actually list all the (English) regional programmes in the billing, before space became too precious, so in the early 80s you would get something like:

6.00 Regional news magazines
Look East, Look North
Look North West, Midlands Today,
Points West, South East at Six,
South Today, Spotlight South West

JN

jnlplj1 6 October 2001 8:57am

SpiringUnhacked posted:

Re, your sig, I haven't seen the Enterprise titles yet, but I have seen plenty of eps of Voyager, etc, so could you post an rm of Enterprise's titles in The Lounge? As for the columning in your post, it looks fine to me! Use HTML if need be, it is enabled!

the vid is 25mb - and i'm not going to upload that!

Forum link

this is the link to the topic on this forum - it's got the URL for the video

thanks,
james

SU

SpiringUnhacked 8 October 2001 12:52pm

Thanks. I hadn't seen that thread.

RB

RB 8 October 2001 1:10pm

For a while, many years ago, the Radio Times listing said: Reporting England (it then listed Spotlight South West, South Today, Look East etc in italics).

Even dafter and confusinger.

I think the term magazine does apply still (especially in softer news regions).

News is too narrow a term to describe a programme that includes a letters slot, for example.

Maybe Regional News and Current Affairs?

RW

RW 8 October 2001 4:57pm

RB posted:

For a while, many years ago, the Radio Times listing said: Reporting England (it then listed Spotlight South West, South Today, Look East etc in italics).

Except in the London edition, where it just said 'Nationwide' - but still listed all the regional programmes.

(September 2001)