BBC London TV News

Hmm...Radio Kent have started using the 'be part of it' tagline, so I expect they'll be doing something similar?

Trails like that will be part of a campaign for the whole country, no offence to anyone in the regions who make trails but it's a little too classy to have been come up with by an individual region!

Bristol Studio-A closed around 1991-2 for network use and sat unused (for tv) until 1996. By then Studio-B was in need of a refit but instead they chose to refurbish the old network studio, scene dock and scenery workshops into bi-media newsroom for radio and television, tv studio and editing/graphics facilities and so-on. Points West moved into Studio-A and B was demolished. Don't go thinking that Points West have a huge network sized studio though. It wasn't enormous in the first place, but was divided up into a reduced studio floor area and adjacent gallery, videotape area, presentation studio & gallery and graphics suite.

Someone mentioned Manchester, yes Studio-A Manchester was a large network studio and produced many quiz/audience programmes (Going for Gold, A Question of Sport), children's programmes (notably Cheggers Plays Pop) and some sitcoms (Red Dwarf) over the years. In typical BBC fashion it was given a technical overhaul and was then closed. It is still in use, though as a four-waller (I.e. without a gallery and not for live television) as part of 3SixtyMedia's empire.

Regions aren't allowed to make their own trails anymore - haven't been for years. They're all produced centrally by Red Bee Media. The regular slots after the lunchtime and 1830 programmes were dropped a couple of years ago in favour of concentrated marketing campaigns across the day in varying slots. Unfortunately this means that most local radio stations now get almost no publicity on television at all.

That's a lovely trail though.

That sounds about right. Studio A at Pebble Mill anyone?

Just seen one for BBC WM in a similar style after The Green Green Grass repeat on BBC1. Still looks ok, but they've failed with the locations they've chosen. I know Birmingham might not be as blessed with landmarks as London, and that the idea is some are locations only known to locals. But, it just ends up looking a bit drab.

I think it's part of a nationwide campaign - we certainly had posters in Television Centre for a number of stations across the country using the same campaign. Add in the new BBC Local identity and I think you'll find there is a uniform look and feel for all the BBC Local Radio and BBC Local web sites. Humberside has the new look bbc.co.uk/humberside as does bbc.co.uk/tees ... see the tie in colours with the branding

The current studio does look nice, but it's a shame to see a nice open newsroom disguised like that. They could have added panels to the back of the newsroom on the walls to make it look different instead of just covering it up.

BBC London News is not a patch on when it first launched.

Birmingham's not that bad off for locations compared with some areas, the London advert didn't really go for many landmarks.

I wonder how many stations they've done them for, have you seen any for Radio Stoke, Warwickshire etc?

BBC London News will be moving to BH next week according to the radio station's Twitter. BBC London 94.9 moved across this afternoon.

I think BBC South did indeed use the main studio at Southampton for a couple of 'non South Today' regional productions, though I'm sure a handful of studio audience discussion programmes in the early 90s were actually produced at TVS/Meridian across town at Northam ?

Whenever Question Time came from Southampton, Northam was used.

The last programme was Tuesday afternoon's Danny Baker apparently. He gave it a nice send off with some great music from his GLR days (it's on the iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p004bd3t/Danny_Baker_15_09_2009/)