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JordyD
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So what regions have now reverted to the 20 minute split programmes? Has anyone in these regions noticed an increase in local news or just more padding.
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All regions have changed to their specific requirements. As of the 16th.
So have the sub-regions like Thames Valley been restored ?
I believe Thames Valley gets an opt-out of at least 2 minutes within Meridian's 6pm programme. The other sub-regions have been partly restored (20 minutes out of 30 in the 6pm show is sub-Region) as of the 16th September.
Shows how much I notice then. Never realised watching ITV Central.
With shared content, not necessarily from the macro region itself. Might be an edited nationwide story.
Anglia E, Anglia W
Central E, Central W
Calendar N, Calendar S
West, Westcountry
Meridian South, Meridian South East (the South has a 10 minte opt for the Thames Valley)
The below regions are fully sub-regional:
Border, Tyne Tees
Channel TV,
Granada,
Wales,
London
Aggregated content means a report from Wiltshire for example can be edited so that the content is somewhat linked to another region.
Also, a story which is first in the running order on Calendar N could appear third on Calendar S, if it is deemed relevant.
Nothing in one part of the "Calendar region" is relevant to any other part of the ITV created monster-region.
I live in Hull, where the BBC serves with East Yorkshire/ Lincs versions of local news.
Not sure where Hull sits in Calendar North or Calendar South but we either get news about Sheffield, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Derbyshire, or news about Leeds, Bradford York, Halifax and Huddersfield
AND Border. However you just like to stick it in to ITV whenever you can.
The Calendar regions are different from the BBCs, namely that the Sheffield relay (former Calendar South area) is included with the Belmont (East) area, therefore stories from Sheffield and South Yorkshire are relevant to both.
Complaints about the size of the Calendar region is hardly the fault of ITV and their recent cost cutting. It was only ever one full region (with short news opt outs) for all but 2 years of it's 45 year existence.
To answer a question above, I haven't noticed any jarring stories in the last 10 mins. Most of that is used for the weather chat and the weather forecast anyway.
Across the week most regions are getting more local news than previously; with at least 20 minutes at 6pm and newly split lunchtime/late/weekend bulletins.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/c3-c5-obligations/statement/statement.pdf has full details of the new arrangements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(News)
According to wiki - always reliable - Calendar was never "one regional news programme" until recently - it had North, South and East sub regions.
The Hull newsroom closed down before I moved here in 2005, so I have never been interested in watching Calendar as news from Leeds and Sheffield is of no interest to me, the same way I was not interested in stories from Norwich when I lived near Peterborough in the Anglia regions.
Border too gets 30 full mins
Giving a straightforward (and I would have thought fairly uncontroversial) fact is hardly ''sticking it in'' to ITV.
Thanks for that. I will have to remember to watch Central instead of ITV Wales one night to check it out.
There may well be regional news faults, but you are very "stick it to ITV with no positives at all"
Only ever short news round ups were sub regional except for the 2 years when ITV created a full separate east programme, and then axed it.
So why does Central West only have 20 minutes, when the West Midlands as I understand it to be the second most populated area outside of London?
I guess it's due to the Central region being two sub-regions, unlike the Granada and London regions.
That's right. The single Granada service covers areas as diverse as Cumbria right down to some parts of NorthWest Derbyshire and even the Isle of Man.
It's a big region so the 20 minute changes don't apply.
Plus I really don't like the pan regional bit at the end, a horrible generic backdrop and the top stories from the whole of the region, which is pointless. I'd prefer they just prerecord the whole 30 minutes.