Picked up my copy of Radio Times this morning and one of the first things I noticed was that they now seem to call the London edition "London/Anglia"...
Has anyone else's RT region changed, or is it just London?
There are so few variations in England these days, its hard to see why they still bother with separate editions for each English region. Obviously there is much greater need for editions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Funnily enough though, Wales doesn't actually have its own RT edition: it shares with West, so listing space for the massive variations between BBC 2W (digital) BBC 2 Wales (analogue) and BBC 2 West is pretty compromised!
I've always thought Border got a pretty rough deal, being merged with Scottish and Grampian in the 'Scotland' edition, so there was only a tiny box with variations. Maybe it would have made more sense for Border to be covered in the Granada edition, but then of course the BBC Scotland region would need to be covered too. Hmm...
So does anyone have the full list of regions covered by the new RT editions? Have the TV Times areas changed at all?
In the Midlands edition (and, presumably, any other edition in which Wales and/or West is in the "regional variations" column), it always mentions:
ITV1 West News
and
ITV1 Wales News
Has nobody told them that "1" does not feature in the names of those news programmes?
Presumably, in the actual Wales and/or West edition(s) of RT, they don't erronously include a "1" in the news title?
Rather interestingly, the old ITV1 Regional Variations list in Radio Times carried ITV1 Meridian ITV1 Central and ITV1 Anglia... Now that Anglia has been incorporated into the main ITV column, the regional variants listed are ITV1 Central ITV1 Meridian and... ITV1 Yorkshire!
Bit of a way to Yorkshire from London, but never mind - i suppose it was the next region along geographically...
Well in the new South/West & South West RT (so good they named it twice!) there are listings for BBC 2W but not S4C.. the problem, the digital signal does not get into Bristol, where I am, but the signal for S4C does. So not I can't see what's on! great stuff. I can see what they are watching in Anglia and the Channel Islands which is handy! S4C is so handy for things you miss on C4 as they are shown a few day later as a rule!
They even have to fill up the box at the bottom of the page with that new 'on this day' thing - the very box that had the S4C listings in them!
I wonder if the new welsh addition has C4 or S4C as its main 'Channel 4' in the listings?
Mind you I can think of one member who will miss the easy planning of the night's 2W viewing.
Indeed!
If anyone from Wales is heading in this direction on Thursday, perhaps they could bring a Welsh edition over the bridge!
Will do! This is going to make my life more difficult as I look in the Radio Times to see which opt-out programmes are on BBC Wales so I know what time to go into work ... now I won't be able to see which are different!
So does anyone have the full list of regions covered by the new RT editions? Have the TV Times areas changed at all?
TV Times merged it's regions quite some time ago.
Good news for Wales - could never understand why it was merged with West.
The regions do seem pretty random - often here on the N Wales border we find ourselves with Granada / North West editions that have the regional variations for Northern Ireland but not for Wales!
So does anyone have the full list of regions covered by the new RT editions? Have the TV Times areas changed at all?
TV Times merged it's regions quite some time ago.
Good news for Wales - could never understand why it was merged with West.
The regions do seem pretty random - often here on the N Wales border we find ourselves with Granada / North West editions that have the regional variations for Northern Ireland but not for Wales!
The Northern Ireland edition carries regional variations for Wales but not Scotland.
