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 … Continue reading Regional Links for Communities in Coastal North Northumberland are scarce recognised by Regional News broadcasters →

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 … Continue reading Northumberland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Norwegian Connection →

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 … Continue reading REGIONAL TV BROADCASTERS SHOULD KNOW THAT NORTHUMBERLAND IS A BIG COUNTY ACROSS WHICH THE IDEAL REGIONAL TV WILL CHANGE. →

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 … Continue reading OVER ONE HUNDRED BERWICKERS SHOULD SWITCH TO BBC1 REPORTING SCOTLAND TO PUT REAL PRESSURE ON BOYCOTT THE NON- LOCAL NORTH EAST ENGLAND REGIONAL TV →

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 … Continue reading 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. →

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 … Continue reading Regional News for North East England must be funded better. Northumberland and North Yorkshire continue to suffer little Local News- coverage. →

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 … Continue reading There is No ITV1 or BBC1 Regional News Service that really caters for viewers in far North East Northumberland →

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 … Continue reading Viewers in rural Western County Durham and northern Yorkshire Dales also get little local news- coverage in Regional TV bulletins →