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Are BBC hiring standards lower in the north than in the south?
gateaux
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For example, if you compare BBC London News presenters with the people that have been hired to work on BBC Breakfast since it moved to Salford, it's pretty clear that the talent pool up north isn't great.
That would be fine for most industries where you save money making goods with cheaper labour and nobody is any the wiser, but television is different - your cheap hirings are laid bare to the nation.
That would be fine for most industries where you save money making goods with cheaper labour and nobody is any the wiser, but television is different - your cheap hirings are laid bare to the nation.
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If Manchester us classed as the North then I must live in another country (North East England)
The talent is actually better. Old stalwarts at TV centre are being replaced with new blood who can do the job better.
I take it that you are a southerner then based on the above >:(
Manchester is in the North of England, might not be what's traditionally considered "up North", but there's no denying it's in the North of England...
Manchester is "up north" if you live further south, just as it could also be considered "down south" for those who live further north.
Yeah, but if you take England as a whole, Manchester is basically in the middle. Manchester is in the 'Midlands'.
I take it you meant to say the UK as a whole? Birmingham is a much more central location in England than Manchester.
I mean the middle.
Safe to assume Manchester is in the north.
Must be a regions thing, the North East is never referred to as 'the North' yet Manchester (3 hours from Northumberland) is 'the North'
Yeah, all the talent is in London. The rest of the country is a creative wasteland where all the people are fat and stupid.
They smell, too.
Just because some people live at the northern end of that area does not mean they can deny others further south in the area the right to call themselves northerners.
But obviously, back on topic, the Greater Manchester + Merseyside areas with a population of say 4 million is bound to have a smaller talent pool than say the Greater London commuting area with over 10 million, and because the best of Salford Quays will tend to be stolen by Broadcasting House (such is Large Corporate life).
I can only think of one BBC London News presenter that is even remotely in the same league as the presenter pool in Salford, and I'm a Southerner. Maybe you just have an affinity towards presenters who talk about London a lot?
So why is the BBC local news programme from Newcastle called Look North ?
The original BBC North Region was based on Manchester, studio centres then developed in Leeds and Newcastle. Don't the BBC use 'Look North' for all the regional news programmes in that area? A viewer in each area will only see their local one, unless they start fiddling around on Freesat, so it does not matter that there is another one based somewhere else in the region.
They are only down South anyway!
The Manchester local programme is actually called North West Tonight and not Look North. There is also a Look North from Hull for east Yorkshire and Lincolnshire although it is known to most viewers as the Peter Levy Show.
Many years since I saw it, it used to be Look North.
The BBC, which is the British Broadcasting Corporation, does not just cover England.
In British terms, Manchester is not in the north.
But he twice used 'North of England' and never mentioned Britain or North Britain.
As somebody who comes from Greater Manchester I've never heard anybody refer to it as the Midlands, it's definitely in the North of England. People in the North East are in the far North.
It's all relative, Glasgow and Scotland (where I suspect some of these comments originate) are in the South of Scotland but like to talk as if they are in the 'North'.