That was the idea. It would certainly be good to have services for all the major connerbations, but as TV transmitters often cover many, I can't see there being a Derby/Nottingham split, but there would be a Nottingham/rural East Midlands split.
2009/6/18 <i...@mullridge.com> > Does this get around somebody in Blackburn not being interested in > Liverpool news, someone in Derby not being intersted in Nottingham > etc. > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:29 +0100 Andrew Bowden > <andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > >Well each one would have a budget of £5m by that estimate. It's > >possible, but only if that included satellite and internet > >distribution. > > > >Terrestrial just wouldn't be possible with the current transmitter > > >network. > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner- > >backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth > > Sent: 18 June 2009 10:49 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: Re: [backstage] The Final Digital Britain report > > > > > > The think I have the most of an issue with is the funding of a > >regional news programme for ITV. > > > > If you are going to spend £150m (say) of BBC money, it would be > >better to break up the BBC regional news service into a network of > > >BBC local news channels. > > > > For a start it would make sense to supplement BBC London with BBC > > >Birmingham and BBC Manchester. This would mean BBC West Midlands > >and BBC North West becomes a "county" service. > > > > The BBC Scotland service could be split into an urban "central > >belt" service for Edinburgh and Glasgow and a "highland and > >islands" service (cf. "Grampian region") > > > > The BBC North West service could split into three, one for > >"Tyne", one for "Tees" and one for "Cumbria". > > > > BBC North could be BBC West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford etc), BBC > >South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and BBC North Yorkshire (another > >"county" service). > > > > The BBC South region could split as Meridian did, with one for > >the Hampshire end and another for Sussex. > > > > And so on. There are 60.9 million people in the UK, so 30 > >regional news channels serving a population of about 2 million > >each would be "local" news. > > > > It would CLEARLY be better for there to be ONE news programme > >with LOCAL news for everyone, than a choice of TWO news programmes > > >that are REGIONAL. > > > > Any analysis would show that people would benefit more for news > >of a more local nature, than a choice of two lots of news that > >will be about somewhere that is not local. > > > > The idea of preserving regional news on ITV is nostalgia and not > >an analysis of what would benefit the public. > > > > You could clearly get 30 x BBC Local News 24-hour channels from > >£150m a year, couldn't you? > > > > > > > > 2009/6/16 Ian Forrester <ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk> > > > > > > The Final Digital Britain Report > >http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx > > > > So what do people think? Time to leave the country or dig a > hole > > >and stick our heads into it? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ian Forrester > > > > This e-mail is: []secret; []private; [x]public > > > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage, BBC R&D > > Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ > > email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk > > work: +44 (0)1612444063 | mob: +44 (0)7711913293 > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > >unsubscribe, please visit > >http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > >Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > >archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Brian Butterworth > > > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and > >switchover advice, since 2002 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
