Wonder if any of you are intrigued to know what the Forum's biggest fan of BBC regional news (i.e. me) got? Well, let's go to Hogwarts School of Regional Broadcasting wizardry.......
Katherine arrived at the big doors of the Great Hall of Hogwarts. She, like all other first years had to be sorted by the Sky Digital Postcode Sorting Hat, as form upon form of students before her. She was feeling a bit tense, nervous as to which region she'd be assigned to. Would she be assigned to Belmont House, perhaps to be tutored by Professors Levy and Fospero? Or would some other region get the prize catch? One by one, Professor McGonagall began to ask the new students forward to be sorted and then despatched to the various Hogwarts campuses throughout the British Isles. And then, Professor McGonagall spoke. "Katherine Birkett?"
Feeling the weight of several hundred pairs of eyes boring into her back, she shuffled forward, her heart hammering somewhere between her epiglottis and her incisors. Reluctant to meet anyone's gaze, she fixed her eyes firmly on the stool on the stage, the Sorting Hat resting on a nearby table. Taking a moment to steady her nerves, she took a deep breath as she approached the stage steps, and began to climb them, one by one. "Here we go, here we go, ooh blimey, which one will it be?" She reached the stool and, flicking her hair behind her shoulders, sat down upon it. The Sorting Hat was placed on her head, and, once Professor McGonagall pressed the 'select' button on the Hogwarts Digital Remote Control that activated the Sorting Hat, it began to make the decision that would determine Katherine's future home.
"Hmm... let me see..... plenty of loyalty to Yorkshire, admirable..... a fine brain in her skull...... however, she's technically in another area........ a desire to prove she's not a one-region person...... if it be her ambition to have more than a one-region span, she must be taught henceforth, by Dominic and Anne! EAST MIDLANDS TODAY, NOTTINGHAM!!!!!".
As a cheer went up from the Nottingham table, she breathed a sigh of relief as she hurried towards the other students who had been sorted for East Midlands Today. She was already relishing the thought of succeeding in her long-held aim......
Yup folks, Look North Hull's biggest fan has been assigned BBC East Midlands as her default region on channel 101!! I was half-expecting it as, odd as it may sound, here in Boston I have Central West as my default ITV region!! The postcode for Boston is PE21, a Peterborough and East Midlands code. This is despite Belmont being the dominant transmitter for Boston!! When I found out what region I'd got on 101, I simply fell about laughing at the situation!! Not sure if I'll change it...
You are actually in a good position, as both versions of Look North are right next door to each other, meaning quick surfing to get optimum Hudson appearances is a quick up/down arrow and select!
Also, whats with all these complaints about getting the wrong region on 101, why can't you all just retune to analogue, just because you've got Sky does it mean buttons 1-5 on your TV have stopped working?
It's quite funny really. The only person on here that is getting BBC1 East Mids, is someone who was likely to get the new Hull and Lincs programme Whereas other people in the East Mids are getting West.
I haven't checked mine, but will presume they have allocated BBC1 East (E) because of the postcode system when I am firmly in the West.
I don't understand how some people are getting BBC East, but ITV1 London though, as that would mean it wasn't the same system
As for 1-5, I never use analogue on the main TV, no widescreen for a start.
You are actually in a good position, as both versions of Look North are right next door to each other, meaning quick surfing to get optimum Hudson appearances is a quick up/down arrow and select!
If they are next to each other, isn't it easier to just press Channel + or Channel - ?
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Also, whats with all these complaints about getting the wrong region on 101, why can't you all just retune to analogue, just because you've got Sky does it mean buttons 1-5 on your TV have stopped working?
I'm happy cos I have the right region on my 101 (E. Mids), but my analogue signal is dreadful, so if I did have the wrong region, I couldn't revert to analogue. Even so, all the regions are in the EPG anyway, so why would you need to revert to analogue?
2, Anyway, talking of BBC London, Its not LDN on 944 (or whatever number) is it?? Its Network just showing LDN news as they have nothing else to show. Is there any chance of the real LDN coming or are BBC One LDN idents ONLY on Analogue London now?
BBC One London idents are carried on both analogue and digital terrestrial. However BBC One London on DSat is, as you say, BBC One Network (with London local programmes but network idents) on both 101 in London (and also for FTA/non-card viewers) and 944 outside. I suspect that BBC One Network will remain on DSat for robustness reasons - and it would be difficult to justify the extra costs required to broadcast both versions on DSat just to allow three letters to be added to the red BBC One box (and I guess local trails to be seen?)
what are the "sustaining" arrangement for should one of the feeds fail from a regional centre back to TVC (or wherever they are multiplexed/uplinked)? If say Leeds failed would the LDN/Network version be used as a replacement or a geographically close region (Newcastle or Manchester at a guess, or Hull once that's split off fully)
Whereas other people in the East Mids are getting West.
