BBC ONE English Regions on DSAT

I can't remember who Gillian Miller is. Normally it's the excellent Teresa Driscoll or the very sound Justin Leigh.

Here's the link for info about her. Maybe it'll jog your memory....

Gillian Millar

Ah yes thank you Katherine, I like her. Perhaps she's in for Teresa tonight. I should have looked on the website

Spotlight seems to harbour some great talent. Just look at the people who started off in Plymouth, then became house-hold names nationwide. Have a look at this page.

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I therefore take it that the transmitters for ITV do not cover the same areas as those for the BBC.

There is a difference between editorial arwa and transmission area. To say that there is a substantial difference between the west and south west regions on the two networks is, to put it politely, misleading. But then, I only watch the programmes....

Editorially BBC West cover Cheltenham & Gloucester despite few being able to receive Mendip signals there without the help of cable.

I am sure that our HTV 'fan' will confirm that there is now a great chance for BBC West to correct these deficiencies in the regional transmitter network, but how many would actually bother to switch from Midlands to West unless it was done for them?

Of course any mapping of BBC regions based on ITV regions would be foolish, and in the case of viewers in such areas as Border Television's rather impossible.

Taking Central (South) here in Gloucester it competes with BBC's Midlands Today while in Oxford they contend with South Today. I can't see these regional anomalies not being adjusted before any mapping takes place.

A bit off topic, but anyone knows which regions currently play the opening titles during breakfast opt-outs?

BBC LDN use their short version.

BBC Reporting Scotland dont use any.

Just seen Dominic Heale and Anne Davies do East Midlands Today for the first time and as everyone has said, they were a very good pairing. I get the feeling that Dom might be a tad too large for the 'soft area' - his knees were rather obvious!

All in all, I think I'm already warming to them and EMT as a whole. It's a fab programme!!

i've seen midlands breakfast use both long and short titles

look north (ne&c) have no titles and go as far as to stick the national breakfast branding on the screens behind them. oh, and its not very up beat.

Don't think it is that odd ? Gwenan Edwards (Welsh I suspect) was a very popular Newsroom South East presenter, and Ross McWilliam (slightly Scottish) was a well known face to Look East viewers... Harry Gration (not exactly a southern bod) was a popular South Today presenter before returning to Look North Leeds...

I think that personality, competence and familiarity with a region are more important than where you are born at the end of the day.

I also thought Mike Embley at NSE was also Welsh, i'm sure he has presented Wales Today. Mike and Gwenan hosted Newsroom South East at 6.30 all the time - so it was welsh headed

and of course as Katherine knows there is Peter Levy who was born 'darn sarf' and talks like Anna Ford!

No. Except for a few relays here and there and Channel 5, all TV transmitters (that is BBC, ITV1, Ch4) are co-sited. Each transmitter site has all 4 services.

This has always been the case with UHF TV - far easier (both for the companies involved and the viewers) to everything coming from the same place

Except for a few cases such as Scotland, the Channel Islands, South East and Oxfordshire the ITV/BBC regions are almost identical.