2009/6/18 Andy Leighton <an...@azaal.plus.com> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote: > > East Midlands Counties > (Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland) > > Norfolk and Suffolk > > Cambridge and Bedford > > Whilst a more local news service is the solution I think that some > of your breakdowns will need more thought. I live in Peterborough > and the sensible area for news would probably go down to Huntingdon, > March and Chatteris in the south, up to past Spalding in the North, > out to past Wisbech in the east, and west as far as Oakham and past > Oundle. Ideally a local news service should cover that area - I > shouldn't have to switch between the three local stations you've > suggested (and I've quoted) to get the right coverage of things going > on in my area.
You can't help that transmitters would cover more than one "local" area, it's just the way it is. Given that Freeview boxes/sets don't know where they are, only which region they are in, the only way to implement local channels would be to have lots of them and choose. In an ideal world you would have some interactive thingy on BBC One when the regional news cuts in so you can select, that would be possible with MHEG, but not automatically. I also agree that 60 local versions that would be even more local (a million people in each) would be better from the "local" standpoint, but I am just trying to deal with the £150m question, a 60-local-BBC-news service is going to cost a lost more than £150m on top of the current budget. > > > So what is needed is indeed a number or news stations, but also have > the areas overlap and a culture and process of local stations sharing > news gathering, and even VT packages, with neighbouring news stations. > There should be no need for Norfolk/Suffolk to go out and film an > interview at the western edge of their area, and then the next day for > a Cambridgeshire station to go and repeat the interview because it is > at the eastern edge of their area. Yes, this is the case at the moment, was to be the case with the BBC local TV service and would be here in my 30 times two-million proposal. The way I have been looking at it is to use the 501-534 LCN range, thus: 501 Bristol, Bath and Western Today 502 Cambridge and Bedford Today 503 Cumbria and Northwest Counties Today 504 Devon and Cornwall Today 505 Dorset and Wiltshire Today 506 Durham and Northumberland Today 507 East Midlands Counties Today(Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland) 508 Edinburgh and Glasgow Today (Perth, Dundee) 509 Essex and Herts Today 510 Highlands and Islands Today 511 Kent East Sussex and Brighton Today 512 Leicester/Nottingham/Derby Today 513 London East (reserved) 514 London North (reserved) 515 London South (reserved) 516 London West (reserved) 517 M4 Corridor Today (Oxford, Reading, Slow, Woking) 518 Manchester Today 519 Merseyside and Blackpool Today 520 Norfolk and Suffolk Today 521 North and Rural Wales Today 522 Northern Ireland Today 523 Rest of Scotland Today 524 South Wales Coast (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Rhondda) Today 525 Southampton and Hampshire Today 526 Surrey and West Sussex Today 527 Tyne and Wear Today 528 West Midlands Counties S Today 529 West Midlands Counties N Today 530 West Midlands Metropolitan Today 531 West Yorkshire Today(Leeds, Bradford etc) 532 South Yorkshire Today 533 York and North Yorkshire Today 534 Hull, East Riding and North Lincs Today > > > -- > Andy Leighton => an...@azaal.plus.com > "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" > - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ > - > 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
