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Just found this thread - I remember a year with summer holiday programming for the first three weeks when I don't recall the globes being used at all - it was a year they filled the schedule with Go 4,5 - an educational programme produced by BBC Scotland (superseded in the early 90s by the very well produced See You See Me) with Grant Stott (he of Fully Booked, brother I believe of John Leslie). Grant with a female did the links.
Did BBC Scotland / NI contribute something to funding the CBBC relay? The only reason I ask is during the three weeks, "XChange" had quite a few NI / Scottish children on the show - which doesn't normally happen. It probably costs more to bring children from here in NI - when the show is made it's unlikely that the child will have enough time to catch a flight back here so they probably have to put children up in a hotel which I'm sure costs a bit. When it's a child from the south of England, it's easy enough to get them back home that night. And the cost of flying too! Also on the "XChange" programme they showed films made by Scottish and NI children - X Marks the Spot - Edinburgh, Xperience - Ulster American Folk Park, repeat showing of X Marks the Spot - Belfast. during the three weeks
Did wonder why we couldn't join the network BBC2 for the first two programmes - there would have been a gap at 6.45am but that's better than an hour! The last of the three weeks I think the network schedule changed that programmes were finishing at 7 that a switch could have been possible.
Did BBC Scotland / NI contribute something to funding the CBBC relay? The only reason I ask is during the three weeks, "XChange" had quite a few NI / Scottish children on the show - which doesn't normally happen. It probably costs more to bring children from here in NI - when the show is made it's unlikely that the child will have enough time to catch a flight back here so they probably have to put children up in a hotel which I'm sure costs a bit. When it's a child from the south of England, it's easy enough to get them back home that night. And the cost of flying too! Also on the "XChange" programme they showed films made by Scottish and NI children - X Marks the Spot - Edinburgh, Xperience - Ulster American Folk Park, repeat showing of X Marks the Spot - Belfast. during the three weeks
Did wonder why we couldn't join the network BBC2 for the first two programmes - there would have been a gap at 6.45am but that's better than an hour! The last of the three weeks I think the network schedule changed that programmes were finishing at 7 that a switch could have been possible.