REGIONAL TV BROADCASTING FOR NORTHUMBERLAND SHOULD PROMOTE COMMUNITY, NORTHERNNESS AND WELL-BEING LOCALLY
2nd November 2025 Dear Readers In this post I wish to explore some of the deeper, fundamental responsibilities that Regional TV broadcasters should exercise in their serving of the communities which watch their programming. Regional and National TV broadcasters, such as ITV Tyne Tees & Border, which produces ITV Border Lookaround and ITV News Tyne…
Music and Cultural Links between Northumbria, Scotland and Norway. And the ETIAS implications
28th July 2025 Dear Readers This Website covers Regional TV in northern NE England and the Scottish Border area, the deficiencies relating its local and wider Regional TV News-coverage (and indeed National news-coverage) with regards to the large area extending from the River Tyne all the way up to North Berwick and westwards to the…
EN VINTERUTFLUKT TIL DET FROSSET NORD
12. juni 2025 <Denne artikkelen ble publisert på engelsk 18. mars 2025> Kjære Lesere Dette er en nettside som diskuterer hvorvidt regional TV er passende, eller ikke, for folk som bor i den nordlige halvdelen av Nordøst-England, nærmere bestemt Northumberland/nord for Tyne og over The Scottish Borders <fylket nord for den skotske grensen- nærmere Nordsjøen>.…
Nothumberland the The Scottish Borders area. The Need for Geographical Representation
30th May 2025 Dear Readers Readers of this site will be aware that this website is dedicated to the cause of folk living in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders who need a TV news- service that provides local news, covers their areas of concern and which touches on the wider Regional links that are relevant…
A Winter Trip to The Frozen North
18th March 2025 Dear Readers This is a website discussing the appropriateness, or otherwise, of Regional TV for folk living in the northern half of North East of England, specifically Northumberland/ North of Tyne and across into the Scottish Borders. This is a huge area that is relatively poorly-covered, especially northwards of Tyneside. However, it…
Den Nye Europeiske Reisetillatelses-Ordningen ETIAS og Den Ugjennomtrengelige Festningsmuren at dette vil skape i Nordsjøen mellom Northumberland og Norge
DEN NYE ETIAS VISUMFRITAKS-ORDINGEN FOR SCHENGEN-OMRÅDET VIL FØRE TIL EN EKTE FESTNINGSMUR MELLOM NORDØST ENGLAND/ SKOTTLAND OG NORGE. DETTE ER ET TEMA FOR EN STOR DOKUMENTAR I NORDØST ENGLAND OG SKOTTLAND. DET ER ET TEMA SOM IKKE BLITT NEVNT – OG DET MÅ EXPONERES! 22. september 2024 (Denne artikkelen ble publisert på engelsk 21. september…
The new European ETIAS Travel Authorisation Scheme and the Impenetrable Fortress Wall this will put in the North Sea between Northumberland and Norway.
THE NEW VISA-WAIVER SYSTEM FOR THE SCHENGEN AREA WILL LEAD TO A REAL FORTRESS WALL BETWEEN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND/ SCOTLAND AND NORWAY. THIS IS A TOPIC FOR A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND THAT IS NOT BEEN MENTIONED- AND IT SHOULD BE! 21st September 2024 Dear Readers In recent months I have covered the…
The Beautiful Northumberland Coast
11th September 2024 Dear Readers Viewers of Regional TV who live North of the River Tyne, seldom get their local area, let alone anything that may be happening points northwards or eastwards, covered adequately. This includes, of course, the wonderful and breathraking beauty of the Northumberland (and Scottish Borders) countryside and Coast. However, this Website,…
DEN HARDE RIKSGRENSEN I NORDSJØEN SOM KANSKJE BLI ENDA HARDERE- SOM NORTHUMBRISKE KRINGKASTERE IKKE VIL NEVNE
(Denne artikkelen ble publisert på engelsk 6. juni 2024, Oppdatert 16. oktober 2024) 11. juni 2024 Kjære lesere Dette nettstedet kampanjer for geografisk passende nyheter og for anerkjennelse av bredere regionale forbindelser som passer til de nordøstligste samfunnene i England. De grenseoverskridende forbindelsene (og de internasjonale grensene som påvirker disse) som er de mest relevante…
THE HARD BORDER IN THE NORTH SEA THAT MAY GET EVEN HARDER THAT NORTHUMBRIAN BROADCASTERS WON’T MENTION
6th June 2024 Updated 19th October 2024 Dear Readers This Website campaigns for geographic-appropriate news and for the recognition of wider Regional connections appropriate to the north-easternmost communities in England. The cross-border links (and the International boundaries affecting these) that are the most relevant for communities along the Northumberland coast are quite different from those…
LOKALE NYHETER FOR NORTHUMBERLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS OG EAST LOTHIAN (FYLKER I NORDØST STORBRITANNIA) OG ANERKJENNELSE AV BREDERE REGIONALE FORBINDELSER MED SKOTTLAND OG NORGE
(Denne artikkelen ble publisert på engelsk 27. april 2024, Oppdatert 10. mai 2024) 29. april 2024 Kjære lesere, Som lesere av dette nettstedet vet, danner dette nettstedet grunnlaget for en kampanje for bedre, mer geografisk spesifikk regional TV-nyhetsdekning for Northumberland opp til den Skotske grensen. Den enorme landlige området som inkluderer landlige Northumberland og Scottish…
LOCAL NEWS FOR NORTHUMBERLAND, THE SCOTTISH BORDERS, AND EAST LOTHIAN AND RECOGNITION OF WIDER REGIONAL CONNECTIONS WITH SCOTLAND AND NORWAY
27th April 2024 Dear Readers As readers of this website will know, this Website forms the basis of a Campaign for better, more geographic-specific Regional TV News-coverage for Northumberland up to the Scottish Borders. The huge rural area encompassing rural Northumberland and the Scottish Borders really needs its own Regional TV news, it covers an…
Regionale Bånd for lokalsamfunn i kystnære Nord-Northumberland er knapt anerkjent av Regionale Nyhets Kringkastere
Denne artikkelen ble publisert på engelsk på 2. mars 2024 6. mars 2024 (Oppdatert 10. mai 2024) Kjære lesere, Denne nettsiden danner grunnlaget for en kampanje for mer geografisk passende nyhetsdekning for lokalsamfunn nord for River Tyne med anerkjennelse av at bredere regionale koblinger for folk som bor i Northumberland (et fylke i nordlige Nordøst-England)…
Regional Links for Communities in Coastal North Northumberland are scarce recognised by Regional News broadcasters
2nd March 2024 (Updated 19th March 2024) Dear Readers This Website forms the basis of a Campaign for more geographic- appropriate news-coverage for communities North of the River Tyne with recognition that wider regional links for folk living in Northumberland are not necessarily other parts of North East England or Cumbria. There are articles on…
Some pictures of Norway and Northumberland
26th January 2024 (This article was published in Norwegian on 20th January 2024. It is published here, in English, for the benefit of Northumbrian readers) Dear Readers One of the geographical links between Northumberland and Norway is freezing weather in winter. Being further north, Norway gets much colder, snowier weather in winter- but this is…
Noe Bilder av Norge og Northumberland (et fylke i Nordlige Nordøst England)
20. januar 2024 Kjære lesere, En av de geografiske lenkene mellom Northumberland (det nordligste fylket i Nordøst-England) og Norge er det iskalde været om vinteren. Norge er lenger nord og blir derfor mye kaldere og mer snørikt om vinteren, men dette er ikke poenget. Northumberland har mer til felles med sør-vest Norge enn med sør-vest…
NORTHUMBERLAND OG NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE – DEN NORSKE FORBINDELSEN
27. desember 2023 (Oppdatert 10. maI 2024) (Denne artikkelen ble publisert på Engelsk på Look North Must Look North 20. desember 2023) Kjære lesere, Seere av regional TV som bor i de mer nordlige delene av Nordøst-England er interessert i hendelser lokalt. Imidlertid har bredere regionale tilknytning (sikkert opptil en times reisetid unna) har…
Northumberland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Norwegian Connection
20th December 2023 (Updated 28th January 2024) Dear Readers Viewers of Regional TV who live in the more northerly parts of North East England are interested in happenings locally. However, wider regional connections (certainly up to an hour’s travel time away) do have salience with viewers, particularly when folk have contacts through work or places…
REGIONAL TV BROADCASTERS SHOULD KNOW THAT NORTHUMBERLAND IS A BIG COUNTY ACROSS WHICH THE IDEAL REGIONAL TV WILL CHANGE.
29th August 2023 (Updated 16th September 2023) Dear Readers There are two mainstream producers of Regional TV that serve the large county of Northumberland: The first is BBC1 North East & Cumbria that produces the flagship BBC1 Regional TV programme Look North (the version for the North East and Cumbria transmission area that also includes…
OVER ONE HUNDRED BERWICKERS SHOULD SWITCH TO BBC1 REPORTING SCOTLAND TO PUT REAL PRESSURE ON BOYCOTT THE NON- LOCAL NORTH EAST ENGLAND REGIONAL TV
24th August 2023 Dear Readers People who have looked at this website Look North Must Look North and read the articles will realise that this is a website about Regional TV in the North East of England, and specifically about how relevant it is to viewers in more remote parts of North East England- specifically…
Does Regional TV across North East England serve it’s Viewers well?
12th June 2023 Dear Readers This Website is dedicated to ensuring that viewers of Regional TV who live North of the Tyne and in some of the rural areas of North East England such as the North Pennines (which extends well into the west of the English North East) get better local all-round local and…
Viewers of Regional TV in Far North Northumberland should watch STV News At Six (Edinburgh version)- or even BBC1 Reporting Scotland to get the News North of them.
21st December 2022 Dear Readers This evening, Wednesday 21st December 2022 I watched BBC1 Reporting Scotland and STV News At Six (Edinburgh version). The latter is available from here: https://player.stv.tv/episode/4dup/stv-news-edinburgh and BBC1 Reporting Scotland can be found here, loaded about two or three hours after being aired live. Details are here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj3s. As far as…
Some Real Northern News About The Frozen North To Enthuse Northumbrian Viewers of BBC1 Look North
17th December 2022 Dear Readers We have been experiencing some of our coldest December weather for over a decade across much of northernmost England. In Scotland it has, of course, been even colder with a temperature of -17˚C recorded at Braemar in the Grampians this last week. Even so, parts of Northumberland have had temperatures…
Storm Arwen One Year On- and BBC Look North (NE) may be giving Northumberland more coverage- But Less for North Yorkshire
26th November 2022 Dear Readers I have watched BBC1 Look North (North East/ Cumbria) last night (Friday 25th November) and also the short week-end bulletin tonight (Saturday 26th). Today is, of course, the anniversary of Storm Arwen that swept through the North East and Cumbria causing so much damage. I, for one, will not forget…
BBC Cuts Portend an Uncertain Future for Regional TV in North East England
3rd November 2022 Dear Readers Recent developments, as the BBC considers how to save money in the face of rising costs and the TV Licence fee being frozen until 2027, means that Regional TV in North East England faces a more uncertain future than it has done until now. Were BBC1 Look North (NE/ Cumbria)…
Across Large Areas of Northern England and Scotland, BBC and ITV Regional TV is unsatisfactory.
8th September 2022 Dear Readers The lack of geographic-appropriate Regional TV, as watch by viewers, affects over six million people living across large swathes of Scotland and northern England, as well as the Isle of Man: It is not just in Northumberland and North Yorkshire that Regional TV News- coverage is not geographic- appropriate for.…
A “Democratic Deficit” for Viewers in Northern North-East England
10th August 2022 Dear Readers A consideration that viewers of Regional TV who live “North of The Tyne” in North East England is that there is a Democratic Deficit in terms of representation by, and choice of, Regional TV for viewers in Northumberland. This is borne out by the news-coverage in both BBC1 Look North…
Regional News for North East England must be funded better. Northumberland and North Yorkshire continue to suffer little Local News- coverage.
8th May 2022 Dear Readers Regional Television, as serves viewers at the rural northern and southern peripheries of North East England, is scarcely local or geographic-appropriate for viewers in those areas. In northern Northumberland, in particular, where areas local to communities are only going be in Northumberland, the eastern Scottish Borders, and East Lothian nearer…
There is No ITV1 or BBC1 Regional News Service that really caters for viewers in far North East Northumberland
23rd February 2022 Dear Readers If you live in Berwick upon Tweed, or in Wooler, Bamburgh or even as far south along the coast as Seahouses, you are still more than an hour’s drive north from from Newcastle upon Tyne (or over 50 miles away). That means that, to all intents and purposes, the regional…
Regional Television in Switzerland
30th December 2021 Dear Readers Hello. I am currently staying with my brother in Switzerland during Christmas and the New Year where Regional and Local Television is treated somewhat more generously per capita of the population compared to Northern England (that is Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, North East England and all North West England plus the Isle…
THE NORTHUMBERLAND SCOTTISH BORDERS REGION LACKS REAL NEWS COVERAGE ON REGIONAL TELEVISION- AND RECENTLY LACKED THE WHEREWITHALL TO WATCH IT TOO!
6th December 2021 Dear Readers On the 26th November 2021, the evening after this picture was taken in rural south-west Northumberland, communities in areas covered by those shown in the above picture- that is the Tyne Valley and looking north across western rural Northumberland to the Scottish Border were without power as violent storms battered…
North East England North of Hadrians Wall. The lack of any news- coverage North of the Border is unacceptable- for obvious reasons.
2nd October 2021 Dear Readers When Emperor Hadrian had built the famous wall that takes his name in AD122, it was to mark the most north-west extent of his Roman kingdom: The part that was south of Hadrian’s Wall was Britannia, from which we have the name Britain, but the part north of Hadrian’s Wall…
A Sunny Warm August Day: Views from Near Kielder and the Scottish Border
28th August 2021 I have been for a lovely country drive into rural Northumberland and across into the Scottish Borders on a fantastic Bank Holiday week-end. Who can complain! Do sample some nice views of this oft- neglected part of the World by North East Regional Television- this Website will showcase some of these places…
Regional TV in North East England by 2050. A Worst Case Scenario
21st August 2021 This is a Website that campaigns for better and more geographic- appropriate Regional Television for rural Northumberland. However, there is a real chance that what viewers in northern parts of North East England, indeed all of North East England and including North Yorkshire will end up with an even worse and less…
For the Good Folk of Berwick-upon-Tweed That’s TV Edinburgh/ South Scotland would provide better cross- Border News
14th August 2021 (This article was updated on 20th December 2022) Dear Readers Berwick upon Tweed and North Northumberland- that is north of Alnwick- have stronger links with the Scottish Borders than the rest of Northumberland. This is not surprising given that Berwick-upon-Tweed was once part of Scotland and that the ancient county of Berwickshire-…
A Regional News- Service for Northumberland and the Scottish Borders
July 2021 Dear Readers The vast rural area of northern Britain that encompasses rural mid and northern Northumberland, the Scottish Borders, West and East Lothian (just south and east of Edinburgh) along with the extreme north of Cumbria north of Carlisle covers an area of some 5,000 square miles: For all practical purposes this massive…
Good- quality timely Regional News for rural Northumberland and North Yorkshire is actually a vital Public Service.
Dear Readers North Northumbrian viewers of Regional Television would be best- served by a Regional and Local News- service that covers Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, with some overlap coverage south to cover Tyneside, Wearside, and County Durham, some overlap west to cover Carlisle and North Cumbria and overlap northwards to cover the East and…
Viewers in rural Western County Durham and northern Yorkshire Dales also get little local news- coverage in Regional TV bulletins
4th July 2021 Dear Readers I live in the extreme north-east of Cumbria near the remote village of Nenthead in the North Pennines: The North Pennines and surrounding rural areas covers a really large area and for the purposes of Regional Television News- coverage. It is bounded by the Tyne gap and A69 to the…
North Northumbrians Would Benefit from Collaboration between BBC1 Look North and ITV1 Tyne Tees
May 2021 Dear Readers One of the problems that viewers in rural Northumberland- and indeed across North East England face- with their choice of Regional Television News is that both the two main News- providers cover much the same areas and same items of news. Of course, the BBC1 North East and Cumbria version of…
Geographically- appropriate Regional Television News in Northumberland
9th March 2021 Dear Readers Recently, there has been more coverage of Northumberland on BBC Look North (North East/ Cumbria). On this evening’s Look North there was coverage of the proposed dualling of the A1 through Northumberland up to the Scottish Border and the re-opening of Belford station in northern Northumberland as part of a…
Scottish Independence will affect whether North Northumbrians can find out what is happening across the Scottish Border on Regional Television news.
2nd January 2021 Dear Readers If you live in a Northumberland community close to the Scottish Border, in towns like Cornhill on Tweed, Wooler and Otterburn, the now real possibility of Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom and becoming a nation in its own right might not occur to you as something of real…
If Northumbrians vote with their Televisions, both BBC Look North and ITV Tyne-Tees will take notice
14th December 2020 Dear Readers Viewers of Regional Television in rural Northumberland, which potentially number over 200,000 individuals have a simple recourse if they are fed up with the lack of coverage of their area and the immediate north of them on ITV Tyne Tees or BBC Look North. They can do this in a…
In the Very Unfortunate event that ITV Border is scrapped in ITV Cuts, there will still be STV East that northern Northumberland’s Viewers could get
Dear Readers, My previous post looked at how viewers of North East Regional Television who live in northern Northumberland could obtain more localised news- coverage and also find out about significant happenings on the Scottish side of the Scottish Border (https://looknorthmustlooknorth.org/2020/10/31/some-north-northumbrians-can-get-itv-border-scotland-if-they-twiddle-the-signal-reception-on-their-televisions-and-point-their-aerials-north/). Today, there is the option of tweaking aerials, and getting Sky Television or Freeview…
Some North Northumbrians CAN get ITV (Border) Scotland if they Twiddle the Signal Reception on their Televisions and point their Aerials NORTH.
31st October 2020 Dear Readers A major feature that I return to on this site is the fact that the two main Regional Television News- services that serve North East England, that is ITV Tyne Tees and BBC Look North (North East/ Cumbria) not only serve Northumberland very poorly, but also that neither Regional Television…
Rural Northumberland receives hardly any coverage whatsoever either on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees. ITV Border (Scotland) could come to the rescue.
There was a news report on broadband being rolled out in mid-Northumberland on ITV Tyne Tees this evening (https://t.co/Wc9uFj1M0H?amp=1). It was the first news- item from anywhere significantly North of Tyne for several days. It is very clear that viewers of Regional Television who live in Northumberland more than twenty miles north and north-west of…
No News about North, West and Mid Northumberland during the last week on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees.
The good folk of Berwick-upon Tweed must be wondering whether they (or, should that be ITV) made the right move back in 2006 when they were transferred from the ITV Border (Scotland) transmission area to ITV Tyne Tees because the furthest north the North East Regional news has come (Both on BBC Look North (NE/…
Virtually nothing specific on Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
Dear Readers BBC Look North (covering the North East and northern Cumbria) featured a news- item about health officials in the Scottish Borders expressing concern about rising Coronavirus cases in neighbouring Northumberland: It is perhaps the only significant reference to rural Northumberland this week. The Regional News virtually never gets north of Tyneside and (when…
15th September 2020: A New Site to focus on Regional Television coverage for the northern North East of England
Dear Readers I already have a website that draws attention to the deficiencies in Regional Television for viewers of BBC North West Tonight and ITV Granada Reports who live in South Cumbria and northern Lancashire who do not get coverage of the northern half of North West England (i.e. Cumbria). This can be found at…
Regional News Programmes in Scotland and the North of England need a little ICE in them to enhance their “Northern-ness”
This article was originally published on my website North West is North West (https://northwestisnorthwest.org/) on 19th August 2020 I have made the point in recent posts that viewers of Regional Television in northern parts of Britain (i.e. Scotland, North West and North East England) like their news to cover some places further to the north…
Massive sink-hole opens up underneath the A68 in the Scottish Borders. Not the slightest mention on ITV Tyne Tees News or BBC Look North (North East/ Cumbria).
This article was originally posted on http://www.northwestisnorthwest.org on 12th August 2020 Viewers of Regional Television in the northern half of North East England were short- changed by both BBC Look North (North East) and ITV Tyne Tees: Lots of coverage of Tyneside, Sunderland and even Darlington (in southern county Durham) but nothing about a serious…
North East England is North East England- and BBC Look North and ITV Tyne Tees must cover Northumberland more.
This new Website will be dedicated to the cause of viewers of Regional Television in the north of North East England – i.e. in Northumberland. This Website will have articles focussed on the forgotten northern corners of North East England. This is the first one devoted to pointing out the deficiencies of Regional news coverage…
A small part of north-east Cumbria benefits from having NorthEast based TV.
This article was originally written on 26th March 2018, but has been amended for today. Dear Readers There is a small part of north-east Cumbria close to the border with Northumberland and County. Durham which is not really in the NorthWest of England since their local rivers drain eastwards into the River Tyne or the…
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