Tyne Tees (and occasionally Yorkshire) Regional Telly programming.

Lemmy_kilmister

Lemmy_kilmister

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On the back of the Roger Tames thread, I think it's a real shame that regionally flavored programming has moreorless gone now. I'm not saying that any of these were great programmes, but they were ours with a familiar feel. (And if you had a Rediffusion telly, or a good aerial you could watch Yorkshire)
Shoot! is the obviously memorable programme for football fans, but there were a good few others.
Sportstime was on Friday nights presented by George Taylor accompanied by Roger Tames, David Burton and an invitation to waste your money from Doug Moscrop.
Shame it'll never come back. ☹️😉
 
It is sad that ITV has become just another national channel. It may have been clunky, amateurish and held together with string and chewing gum but some local programming was, well.......local. Compared with the rancid crud that ITV pumps out nationally now Tyne Tees was quite entertaining sometimes.; Friday Live, The Tube, Sports Time.
 
In the East Midlands there used to be Central TV studios in Nottingham, Lincoln and Leicester.
The studios in all three City`s closed and all news is resourced and broadcast from Birmingham.
Nottingham has a couple of Freelancers who source "local" news [for The East Midlands?!]- but it amounts to less than three minutes in half an hour.
"News" and programming is highly centralised across the country.
Small number of individual owners and editors hold a very powerful influence over narrative and programming. mmm

If you check out media.info https://media.info/uk it lists ownership / coverage / etc of every Television / Radio / Magazine / Newspaper platform in UK.
Easy to access and understand.
 
Foggysfplandiet3 said:
It is sad that ITV has become just another national channel. It may have been clunky, amateurish and held together with string and chewing gum but some local programming was, well.......local. Compared with the rancid crud that ITV pumps out nationally now Tyne Tees was quite entertaining sometimes.; Friday Live, The Tube, Sports Time.
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I used to enjoy The Tube. Some cracking live performances. Wasn't Runaround a Tyne Tees production too (even with cheeky professional cockerney chappee Mike Reid at the helm)?
 
Latterly Soccer Night with endless Roger Tyne John Beresford and Pukka Pies sponsorship.
Had Coops on as a concession the night of Steaua.

Late Kick Off when the BBC had the Championship, was a bit duff.
 
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