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) … Continue reading BBC Cuts Portend an Uncertain Future for Regional TV in North East England
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 … Continue reading THE NORTHUMBERLAND SCOTTISH BORDERS REGION LACKS REAL NEWS COVERAGE ON REGIONAL TELEVISION- AND RECENTLY LACKED THE WHEREWITHALL TO WATCH IT TOO!
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 … Continue reading Regional TV in North East England by 2050. A Worst Case Scenario
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- … Continue reading For the Good Folk of Berwick-upon-Tweed That’s TV Edinburgh/ South Scotland would provide better cross- Border News
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 … Continue reading Good- quality timely Regional News for rural Northumberland and North Yorkshire is actually a vital Public Service.
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 … Continue reading If Northumbrians vote with their Televisions, both BBC Look North and ITV Tyne-Tees will take notice
THE TRANSMISSION AREA OF ITV BORDER (SCOTLAND). OFFICIALLY ITV BORDER (SCOTLAND) CAN ONLY BE WATCHED ON THE SCOTTISH SIDE OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. HOWEVER, ITV BORDER SCOTLAND CAN BE PICKED UP IN BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, COLDSTREAM AND CORNHILL ON TWEED (AREAS IN BOTTOM HALF OF THE BLUE SHADING ON THE RIGHT OF THE MAP) 31st October 2020 … Continue reading Some North Northumbrians CAN get ITV (Border) Scotland if they Twiddle the Signal Reception on their Televisions and point their Aerials NORTH.
View of the small town of Kelso in the Scottish Borders, taken from the air. This is somewhere that is very unlikely ever to feature on BBC Look North (NE/ Cumbria) or ITV Tyne Tees unless the good people of Northumberland complain about the lack of coverage of places that are still local to them … Continue reading No News about North, West and Mid Northumberland during the last week on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees.
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 … Continue reading Virtually nothing specific on Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
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 … Continue reading 15th September 2020: A New Site to focus on Regional Television coverage for the northern North East of England
This article was originally published on my website North West is North West (https://northwestisnorthwest.org/) on 19th August 2020 LOCHNAGAR, HIGH CAIRNGORMS IN SUMMER WITH SNOW PATCHES IN THE GULLEYS : An overlap to icy places to the north of the transmission area for a northern Regional Television service in northern England would not only provide … Continue reading 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 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 … Continue reading 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 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 … Continue reading North East England is North East England- and BBC Look North and ITV Tyne Tees must cover Northumberland more.
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