BBC Where I Live TV

Though everyone may be interested in this...

I was invited to the BBC in Wrexham last Friday to view a pilot of a new TV service called 'Where I Live TV'. There were quite a few people there and we were invited to give our views on the pilot and say how we thought should develop.

It's basically a very local TV bulletin - in this case for the town of Wrexham.

It lasted for 10 minutes and was made up of several films, some made by the BBC and some made by people from Wrexham. The content was very diverse from local news stories told from the point of view of the people they effect, to 'my life' stories including one by a lad who was autistic and a bloke who was selling his dad's bowler hat.

What was also interesting was the the video was in quarter screen (top left) with text information in the rest of the screen giving details such as weather, speed camera locations, roadworks, whats on guide and local news.There was also a ticker along the bottom and text information to match the video.

They asked us how and when we wanted to watch it, and most said they'd like it via the red button on demand with video stories added daily and text info kept up to date.

This is a first for Wrexham and if it goes ahead (and we all gave it the thumbs up) won't be out for a couple of years.

More details at this address

You could watch it online, but it seems they've taken this down.

Doesn't Hull have something of the same nature available on their ADSL TV Service, I remember it was something like what is being said above and you could watch local made films and Look North repeats or something.

A good idea for the BBC, I wouldn't have thought that Wrexham was an obvious choice to pilot the idea.

I think it's an EXCELLENT idea.

I wholeheartedly commend it to the Wiltshire Where I Live editor!

And why not!!!!!

I think Wrexham is perfect for it - not too big a place (cities usually dominate their regional news bulletins anyway) and not too small so that nothing happens, and it combats the Cardiff bias of Wales Today.

They may have also gone on how active the internet version of Where I Live is in NE Wales.

Of course Wrexham is also the best place in the UK (though I am biased!)

Actually Wrecsam fully deserves such a local pilot of this nature.

TV viewers in Wrecsam are not well served by the southern biased Wales Today, even if they get analog reception from the Wrecsam-Rhos relay, otherwise they are served digitally by The Wrekin (BBC-1 Midlands West) or Winter Hill (BBC-1 North West) neither of which editorially admit to the existence of Clwyd.

Furthermore, the BBC closed down the local radio service BBC Clwyd which provided an important service to communities of North East Wales.

From what I've heard, ultra-local TV news has been in the planning for some time. Good to see it's finally being piloted. I think we'll see quite a bit more of this kind of thing in the future...

You are talking about defunct counties again. Just as there is no Humberside, there hasn't been Clwyd for about 10 years

*round of applause* please, corin knows the welsh name for wrexham.

Sorry? Where in the posting did I refer to Sir Clwyd (County of Clwyd)?

But not how to spell analogue. Does not compute!

How about the welsh name for Mold?

Furthermore, you state that the County of Clwyd does not exist.

If it does not exist, why has Mrs Saxe Coburg Gotha just appointed a new Lord Lieutenant for this county? Every county in England and Wales has a Lord Lieutenant (and a High Sheriff).

From <http://www.number-10.gov.UK/output/Page2663.asp>



The current High Sheriff for the County of Clwyd is Dr J H O'Hara.