I'll take your word for it, as I can't get it in Cheltenham...it's not available on Freeview, while ITV West Country news is...
If you switched to Freesat or Virgin (assuming your street is cabled), you would get Points West as your BBC regional news.
I used to watch ITV West Country news, but to be honest Points West covers a much smaller area, and does an excellent job for Gloucestershire, better than ITV West Country IMHO.
Look North (Lincs and Hull) has a distinct Hull bias- not a day goes without mentioning the fact that the city is the city of culture in 2017.
Hull has a population of something like 400,000. The second largest city in the region is Grimsby with 100,000. Lincoln and Scunthorpe are smaller, and nowhere else reaches, what; 40,000? Not surprising that Hull news predominates!
Hull has a population of something like 400,000. The second largest city in the region is Grimsby with 100,000. Lincoln and Scunthorpe are smaller, and nowhere else reaches, what; 40,000? Not surprising that Hull news predominates!
I think whichever city or town these local news programmes are based in tends to get more coverage, it's just easier to nip out and do a story in Hull than Spalding.If the BBC suddenly opened a news operation on Shetland you would find a large number of stories from Lerwick and around.
If you switched to Freesat or Virgin (assuming your street is cabled), you would get Points West as your BBC regional news.
I used to watch ITV West Country news, but to be honest Points West covers a much smaller area, and does an excellent job for Gloucestershire, better than ITV West Country IMHO.
Very little of Cheltenham got cabled, I think...and I don't have any need for a satellite dish, not worth it for the little TV I watch...oh well, there's always IPlayer...
I get my local news down the pub, it's a lot more interesting than what the BBC and ITV put out, landlord ran away with one of the barmaids recently and emptied the till.
I know I started this thread a while ago, but its really beyond a joke what the BBC in the Midlands are getting away with. Their endless stream of NHS stories is getting beyond a joke.
Tonight, they have created another "non story", by using freedom of information requests to report on the number of NHS staff who are on sick leave!
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC? Maybe I should submit my own FOI to find out! :-)
I know I started this thread a while ago, but its really beyond a joke what the BBC in the Midlands are getting away with. Their endless stream of NHS stories is getting beyond a joke.
Tonight, they have created another "non story", by using freedom of information requests to report on the number of NHS staff who are on sick leave!
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC? Maybe I should submit my own FOI to find out! :-)
It's blatantly obvious they choose cheap stories to report on. Central News keeps doing it - King Richard over the last few years, old ATV clips, Coventry City, and that Lichfield Christmas thing with Lawrence Llewelen Bowen - it's just cheap news so they don't have to bother going out and doing real news.
I know I started this thread a while ago, but its really beyond a joke what the BBC in the Midlands are getting away with. Their endless stream of NHS stories is getting beyond a joke.
Tonight, they have created another "non story", by using freedom of information requests to report on the number of NHS staff who are on sick leave!
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC? Maybe I should submit my own FOI to find out! :-)
BBC North West Tonight, dreary at the best of times, is mainly sport especially football and rugby league.
I know I started this thread a while ago, but its really beyond a joke what the BBC in the Midlands are getting away with. Their endless stream of NHS stories is getting beyond a joke.
I agree 150% - I'm afraid that I can no longer watch it for that reason - oh, and the obligatory cute kiddie voxpops, dying baby/animal story, and items that (and I mean no offence here) have nothing to do with my culture...
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC?
Probably less than the amount of money that the BBC has to spend servicing FOI requests enquiring about such important things as what biscuits are provided at meetings, and how many toilets there are in the building.
At least the NHS requests can highlight issues within the NHS, and seeing as Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust seems to be making a complete hash of their proposed hospital services reorganisation (just remember that all four A&E consultants have resigned en masse from the Alexandra Hospital over this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-31832244), it needs local news programmes such as Midlands Today and Central News to continue to highlight the problems that the NHS faces in the Midlands.
And here's another connected story (Worcester Royal looks like it would not cope with emergency cardiac patients who would previously have gone to the Alexandra:
At least the NHS requests can highlight issues within the NHS, and seeing as Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust seems to be making a complete hash of their proposed hospital services reorganisation (just remember that all four A&E consultants have resigned en masse from the Alexandra Hospital over this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-31832244), it needs local news programmes such as Midlands Today and Central News to continue to highlight the problems that the NHS faces in the Midlands.
And here's another connected story (Worcester Royal looks like it would not cope with emergency cardiac patients who would previously have gone to the Alexandra:
I agree, they are genuine stories, so they should have enough health related material already for their "health correspondent" without submitting FOI's to identify how many staff are on sickies.
BBC East Midlands Today has been wall-to-wall Richard 111 for weeks now. Don't know how they'll survive after Thursday.
Completely agree, originally from Nottingham, I flick between Midlands Today and East Midlands Today. Could not believe that people were almost in tears to pay their respect to Richard |||, its not like they ever met him personally.:D
I agree 150% - I'm afraid that I can no longer watch it for that reason - oh, and the obligatory cute kiddie voxpops, dying baby/animal story, and items that (and I mean no offence here) have nothing to do with my culture...
And now the Cheltenham Festival is over, its unlikely they will be down your way until next March, unless there is a murder. They are hardly going to bother to report on the regeneration created by the new (white elephant) Morrisons store, now if that was in Brum...............
I agree, they are genuine stories, so they should have enough health related material already for their "health correspondent" without submitting FOI's to identify how many staff are on sickies.
I'm not familiar with the story to which you refer, but maybe (and I'm taking an educated guess here) there was felt to be some relation between some of the issues within the NHS Trusts in the Midlands, and the number of staff "off sick".
An inordinate number could suggest that staff are being driven too hard, it might also highlight the extortionate costs that are borne by having to use agency staff to cover, or it could even be that there are instances of co-ordinated sickness in order to bring home to the management within the Trust (or the hospitals concerned) that there is a problem.
So what exactly was the nature of the report that involved the FOI request?
I used to live in Nottingham but my TV aerial faced Sutton Coldfield
I remember back in the days of Michele Newman and Llewella Bailey alongside Bob the programme was only ever called 'Central News' without ever referring to the 'West' unlike the editions from Nottingham & Abingdon who always added 'East' and 'South' respectively. Bob always opened with 'Central News, Good Evening'. Maybe that came later, adding ITV?
I guess when he finally retires, ITV could just pack up any local news from the Midlands. Bob's old school but a good presenter
Sure someone will correct me but the reason for not renaming for not renaming to Central News West (or even West Midlands Today!) was incase the East Midlands programme couldnt broadcast for some reason.
(However when Central News ( West) occasionally failed in the early days, we got Central News East though, so presumbly Nottingham didnt have a set of generic titles!)
I know I started this thread a while ago, but its really beyond a joke what the BBC in the Midlands are getting away with. Their endless stream of NHS stories is getting beyond a joke.
Tonight, they have created another "non story", by using freedom of information requests to report on the number of NHS staff who are on sick leave!
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC? Maybe I should submit my own FOI to find out! :-)
I feel that everyone who gets a FoI request from the BBC should automatically go home that night and from their personal email address put in their own FoI request to the BBC on whatever takes their fancy.
At BBC London we only have two specialist correspondents - one does cycle lanes, and the other does the retelling of national news items that you've just seen on the main bulletin as if they're local to London.
We do have a different weather girl for each day of the week though.
You forgot to mention the Boris Johnson Correspondent who only does stories that show the mayor in a favourable light and therefore does not require any tough questioning of him. Isn't the Olympic Games correspondent still active although he's not been on the air for a while:D
BBC London has fine presenters, and reporters.
Alice Bandacarvy.
Louisia Preston.
Asaf Ahmed.
Vicky Hollins,
Wendy Hurrell.
All great but the worst prima donna Riz the teeth who clearly thinks she is it, she has to make an unfunny comment on everything, as if she owned the news. Her introductions are long winded .
Riz will say..she was the farmers daughter from Enfield who did this and that and about five mins later tells you their name. Why not come straight out and say, and now, Seb Coe.
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I believe Look North now claims to be ''Yorkshire's most-watched news programme''.
If you switched to Freesat or Virgin (assuming your street is cabled), you would get Points West as your BBC regional news.
I used to watch ITV West Country news, but to be honest Points West covers a much smaller area, and does an excellent job for Gloucestershire, better than ITV West Country IMHO.
Hull has a population of something like 400,000. The second largest city in the region is Grimsby with 100,000. Lincoln and Scunthorpe are smaller, and nowhere else reaches, what; 40,000? Not surprising that Hull news predominates!
I think whichever city or town these local news programmes are based in tends to get more coverage, it's just easier to nip out and do a story in Hull than Spalding.If the BBC suddenly opened a news operation on Shetland you would find a large number of stories from Lerwick and around.
Tonight, they have created another "non story", by using freedom of information requests to report on the number of NHS staff who are on sick leave!
I'm sure FOI requests were never meant to be used in this way. How much time and public money is wasted by the NHS fulfilling FOI's for the BBC? Maybe I should submit my own FOI to find out! :-)
It's blatantly obvious they choose cheap stories to report on. Central News keeps doing it - King Richard over the last few years, old ATV clips, Coventry City, and that Lichfield Christmas thing with Lawrence Llewelen Bowen - it's just cheap news so they don't have to bother going out and doing real news.
BBC North West Tonight, dreary at the best of times, is mainly sport especially football and rugby league.
At least the NHS requests can highlight issues within the NHS, and seeing as Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust seems to be making a complete hash of their proposed hospital services reorganisation (just remember that all four A&E consultants have resigned en masse from the Alexandra Hospital over this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-31832244), it needs local news programmes such as Midlands Today and Central News to continue to highlight the problems that the NHS faces in the Midlands.
And here's another connected story (Worcester Royal looks like it would not cope with emergency cardiac patients who would previously have gone to the Alexandra:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-32015444
So no wonder that the NHS figures so highly in the local news!
I agree, they are genuine stories, so they should have enough health related material already for their "health correspondent" without submitting FOI's to identify how many staff are on sickies.
Completely agree, originally from Nottingham, I flick between Midlands Today and East Midlands Today. Could not believe that people were almost in tears to pay their respect to Richard |||, its not like they ever met him personally.:D
And now the Cheltenham Festival is over, its unlikely they will be down your way until next March, unless there is a murder. They are hardly going to bother to report on the regeneration created by the new (white elephant) Morrisons store, now if that was in Brum...............
An inordinate number could suggest that staff are being driven too hard, it might also highlight the extortionate costs that are borne by having to use agency staff to cover, or it could even be that there are instances of co-ordinated sickness in order to bring home to the management within the Trust (or the hospitals concerned) that there is a problem.
So what exactly was the nature of the report that involved the FOI request?
Sure someone will correct me but the reason for not renaming for not renaming to Central News West (or even West Midlands Today!) was incase the East Midlands programme couldnt broadcast for some reason.
(However when Central News ( West) occasionally failed in the early days, we got Central News East though, so presumbly Nottingham didnt have a set of generic titles!)
Internal BBC backslapping,
Perhaps a bit like the TRIC awards where only ITV programmes win even when BBC programmes are nominated.
Ariel was always called Pravda when I worked for them.
I feel that everyone who gets a FoI request from the BBC should automatically go home that night and from their personal email address put in their own FoI request to the BBC on whatever takes their fancy.
BBC London has fine presenters, and reporters.
Alice Bandacarvy.
Louisia Preston.
Asaf Ahmed.
Vicky Hollins,
Wendy Hurrell.
All great but the worst prima donna Riz the teeth who clearly thinks she is it, she has to make an unfunny comment on everything, as if she owned the news. Her introductions are long winded .
Riz will say..she was the farmers daughter from Enfield who did this and that and about five mins later tells you their name. Why not come straight out and say, and now, Seb Coe.