Delivering Quality First

While I wouldn't have a problem with that, Lincolnshire has never been grouped with the rest of the East Midlands for TV purposes. According to wikipedia the Belmont transmitter was part of Anglia at one point, but other than that it's always been part of Yorkshire

And I'm while I'm not a technical expert I don't think it would be possible to split the current Look North Hull region up as it is served by Belmont, and only Belmont

I always wonder why it was not merged with Midlands EAST area to create a new area....

That is true, but historically, Lincolnshire (I'm talking more about the Lincolnshire County Council area that excludes Grimsby and Scunthorpe) has more to do with the East Midlands and East Anglian regions. I do believe that Hull as well used to be part of Anglia TV's patch, too.

Lincoln, Boston and Skegness have all been featured on East Midlands Today in the past however, whereas Stamford is included (or at least was) within Anglia TV.

Slightly related on the Lincolnshire awkwardness but not really, but one amusing thing about the digital switchover was because Lincolnshire is in the Yorkshire region, Sky put up HUGE posters across the county and sent out letters going "YORKSHIRE - Switch to Sky". That went down well in Lincolnshire.

The whole thing was a fiasco before it got off the ground. BBC Hull cost £24 million to create and was an absolute disaster from the start. After the deal with Kingston Communications failed and KC closed the local cable service the BBC were left with a huge white elephant. A broadcast centre in the wrong place and VERY large overheads. All the money went on the buildings and very little is left over for programming.

If the BBC had spent the money on a relay for the East Riding (which suffers from bad reception being on Belmont's extremities) they could have had an East Midlands opt out for Lincoln from Belmont and the East Riding would have got regional Yorkshire news.

Three years in and it was promised that the new local news service would address this - of course that never happened and now we have the utter mess that is Look ULL.

The only answer is to get rid of the management - you don't need a head of region on huge amounts re-integrate with Leeds - have a 10 min opt and move Radio Bumbleside into a cheap industrial unit somewhere accessible ensuring that there is enough room for a TV studio. Something which was the last thing they thought of when they leased Queenies Court. QC was designed as retail space and flats. It's The wrong shape for anything practical, the Look ULL studio is an impractical space & the various depts are on different floors.

Put the money into news content & close Hull now please Mr Thompson.

Thought I'd dig up this thread to mention the following article...


Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/08/bskyb-cuts-bbc-transmission-charges

Good news around, I dare say another battle will loom over who get the extra cash