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LeeS posted:
Nice map, but don't you think the BBC should change a few of their regional boundaries, I mean you can get Look North in almost East Anglia and Newsroom South East in the southern midlands! The title of each show is a bit of a contradiction if they are serving areas like that.
The regional divisions are far from ideal, but they are based around the coverage areas of the various transmitters, so there is virtually nothing that can be done with it.
There are many anomalies, such as people watching Look North in north Norfolk, South Today going up to the Midlands and so on. The only solution could be provided by digital satellite, where which regional news programme you get would be decided on post code, thereby allowing the possibility to have ideally-sized regions. But this won't happen, as if and when BBC regions arrive on satellite, they will have to match the regional pattern on terrestrial.