16th October 2021
If you live in Lancashire you should always pick BBC1 North West Tonight over ITV1 Granada Reports if you want geographically- appropriate coverage. On Thursday evening, BBC1 North West Tonight had two news-features about Cumbria- one about raw sewage getting into Lake Windermere and the second about Moorside, next to Sellafield in west Cumbria being the proposed site of nuclear fusion power generation. There was also a mention about high Covid-19 cases in Barrow-in-Furness. There has also been two to three items of news-coverage about Lancashire each night of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week on BBC1 North West Tonight. Meanwhile, ITV1 Granada Reports has not had this amount of coverage of places north of Wigan- and South Cumbria only received one mention on this Regional News programme last week.
It is as consistent as the rain-bearing systems associated with depressions that always push in from the west at this time of year- or the Sun which rises above the east-southeast horizon at 7.30 to 8.am at this time of year: BBC1 North West Tonight inevitably covers Lancashire and south Cumbria in output better than does ITV1 Granada Reports. Thus, if viewers in the more northern areas of North West England (except northern Cumbria) want more geographic-appropriate news-coverage they should choose BBC1 North West Tonight over ITV1 Granada Reports every time. Meanwhile viewers in South Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire should watch ITV1 Granada Reports because the metropolitan south of North West England and Cheshire are consistently heavily-covered by ITV1 Granada Reports.
However, for South Cumbria and North Lancashire, viewers should try and get ITV1 News Border Lookaround followed by BBC1 North West Tonight to get the best all- round local news-coverage. If you cannot get a signal for ITV1 News Border (parts of Lancaster and most of Morecambe can in fact get it), you can usually find a link to the most recent main evening bulletin on their website (here: https://www.itv.com/news/border). This is because, although BBC1 North West Tonight usually covers Lancashire fairly well the programme does not always have news about Cumbria- and sometimes their coverage does not get north of Preston. If you feel you have to watch ITV1 News Border’s Lookaround – to get better coverage of areas just north of your community do drop an e-mail to BBC1 North West programmers at nwt@bbc.co.uk and explain why you feel it necessary to do this.
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My name is Ian Pennell and I am a freelance Book-keeper. I live near Alston in the North Pennines in north-east Cumbria. I used to live and work in Lancaster until 18 years ago and have friends in northern North West England. I have two Websites devoted to campaigning for local, relevant Regional TV, one for Cumbria/ North Lancashire the other for Northumberland/Scottish-Border.............................................................................................................................. A big problem is that the Regional Television Bulletins for the North West covers the southern third of the Region about 90% (plus a part of Derbyshire which is NOT the North West of England), covers the middle third of North West England poorly and covers the northern third of North West England not at all! When I was studying at Lancaster University, I used to watch BBC1 North West Tonight because it covered areas up around where I was brought up- in northern Cumbria as well as more immediately locally around Lancaster. Then I came home one day, turned on BBC1 North West Tonight wondering why they were silent on Cumbria and discovered why: Most of Cumbria had been chopped off the weather-map! ........................................................................
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In rural and northern Northumberland too, Regional TV, as is received by viewers, tends too often to be Tyneside/ Wearside/ Teesside- focussed with little news locally. Communities in North Northumberland have strong links across the Border into south-east Scotland and towards Edinburgh but none of the Regional TV News- services serving Northumberland today ever goes across the Scottish Border to cover significant happenings of interest to North Northumbrians. The region of Northumberland/ Scottish Borders/ East and Mid Lothian area is vast- but it is largely overlooked by mainstream Regional TV! .................................................................................................................... ................
In two websites, one for northern North West England and the Isle of Man (a country in it's own right that does not have it's own TV service!), and another Website focussing on Northumberland, North Yorkshire and the North Pennines I make the point that Regional TV that informs viewers of important things in their local area is a Public Service that must be funded better, in order that rural areas of northernmost England get good geographic- appropriate local news-coverage.
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