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David H posted:
After looking at all the messages in this thread, it seems there is a huge dislike of Look North's Hull opt-out. If you look at www.bbc.co.uk/humber you'll find that the BBC is having a new studio centre built in Hull City Centre and the plan is to make the area covered by Belmont a seperate region from the area covered by Emley Moor.
Yes, erm, thanks, we knew that.
If you want an update, the new studio has yet to be started, they are still working on the foundations after demolishing the previous building.
David H posted:
Personally I think this is a good idea because the west of the Look North region is mainly industrial (Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield etc) whereas the east of the LN Leeds region is mainly agricultural. E. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk are predominently rural areas and most people who live there don't care about what happens in Leeds and Sheffield.
Kingston-upon-Hull (Hull is a river you know) is only an hour from Leeds and a has variouas connections with the city. We probably have more in common with the urban centre of the west riding than with Lincolnshire. Likewise the rural areas of the East riding have their urban dependancies in Hull and the west riding.
As with all TV regions it is based around the location of transmitters and nothing at all to do with genuine localalities.
David H posted:
It would be really stupid if the BBC called the new programme from Hull "Look North"! There are already two editions of Look North (Leeds and Newcastle). So what should the new programme be called? Have you got any ideas?
I'd call it Look East because the programme will cover the coastline of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk. Plus the latter two counties aren't really Northern counties. I know Lincolnshire is officially in the East Midlands but Lincs can't be a Midland county in my opinion. It has a coastline!!!!!
I'd call it Look East because the programme will cover the coastline of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk. Plus the latter two counties aren't really Northern counties. I know Lincolnshire is officially in the East Midlands but Lincs can't be a Midland county in my opinion. It has a coastline!!!!!
You're probably right about the Look East name, it would make more sense.
As far as the Midlands go, they operate north to south only and run from one side of England (the Welsh border) to the other (North Sea)
