Everything about Bbc Look North Yorkshire And North Midlands totally explained
BBC Look North is the
BBC's regional television news service for
West &
South Yorkshire, parts of
North Yorkshire and the North Midlands. The programmes as produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at St. Peter's Square in Leeds with journalists also based at newsrooms in
Sheffield,
Bradford and
York.
Look North can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on
digital satellite channel 976 or 977 on the
BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.
Coverage area
The Leeds programme covers the areas of
Radio Leeds and
Radio Sheffield. Due to the size of the
North Yorkshire county, the listenership of
Radio York is covered by the geographically-multitudinous Look North programmes from
Leeds and
Newcastle.
Homes in southern areas of North Yorkshire such as York, Selby and Harrogate tend to have their aerials directed at Emley Moor, meaning they receive Look North from Leeds. Other areas, such as Whitby and Wensleydale are served better by the Newcastle edition. Most Scarborough and Filey viewers receive the Leeds Look North from the Oliver's Mount transmitter. Sky viewers are allocated BBC Yorkshire and ITV Tyne Tees South across most of North Yorkshire.
Broadcast
On weekdays,
Look North broadcasts six three-minute opt-outs during
BBC Breakfast at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour. A fifteen-minute lunchtime programme follows at 1:30pm before the main half-hour edition at 6:30pm. A short 30-second headlines update during the 8pm
BBC News Summary and a seven-minute late update is shown at 10:25pm, following the BBC News at Ten.
Five-minute bulletins of news and sport are broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, although times vary.
History
The Leeds edition of
Look North has been broadcasting from Leeds since
28 March 1968. Prior to this, the region received a Manchester-based edition of
North West Tonight (later known as
Look North West and eventually,
North West Tonight). The split allowed for greater coverage of the two distinct areas on each side of the Pennines.
This was the main programme for the whole of the 'BBC North' (later 'Yorkshire & Lincolnshire') region until
11 November 2002, when a new studio had been built in
Hull, and the programme split in two. A short opt-out service for the East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had been in service since 2001.
Until
26 September 2004,
Look North Leeds was produced from the BBC's broadcasting centre at Woodhouse Lane, close to the
University of Leeds. A brand new broadcasting centre was built near the
West Yorkshire Playhouse
on St Peter's Square, and
BBC Look North moved to the new premises on
27 September 2004. The move coincided with the introduction of a new
BBC Yorkshire region.
Presenters
Breakfast Bulletins
| Regular presenters: Clare Frisby (Mon-Thu); Roopa Rajani (Fri)
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Relief presenters: Amanda Harper; Danni Hewson
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13.30 Bulletin
| Regular presenters: Christa Ackroyd, Harry Gration
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Relief presenters: Danni Hewson, Jenny Hill, Amanda Harper
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18.30 Bulletin
22.25 Bulletin
Regular presenter:
Ian White
Saturday Bulletins
| Regular presenter: Graham Liver
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Sunday Bulletins
| Regular presenter: Ian White
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Weather Presenters
Regular presenters:
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Relief presenters:
Cecilia Daly (relief for Lisa Gallagher)
Presenters from the BBC Weather Centre (relief for Lisa Gallagher)
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Reporters
| Tanya Arnold (sports presenter/reporter; also reports on non-sports events)
Phil Bodmer (Bradford Correspondent/Video Journalist)
Ian Bucknall
Penny Bustin (Health Correspondent)
Jamie Coulson (also BBC North Inside Out presenter)
Ben Cryer
John Cundy (Crime and Social Affairs Correspondent)
Amanda Harper
Danni Hewson
Jenny Hill
Tom Ingall (South Yorkshire Correspondent)
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Cathy Killick
Charlotte Leeming
Kersti Mitchell
Paul Ogden (Sports Reporter)
Mark Simpson (also national BBC North of England correspondent)
Sean Stowell
Len Tingle (Political Editor)
Marco van Belle
Sam Wichelow
Alan Whitehouse (Transport Correspondent)
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Former Presenters
Peter Levy - now the main presenter for Look North in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire based in Hull.
Sophie Raworth - between 1995 and 1997 - now main presenter of the BBC News at One.
Mike Smartt - between 1976 and 1982 - later correspondent and presenter at BBC TV News and then founder and editor-in-chief of BBC News Interactive
Khalid Aziz
Judith Stamper - now runs a degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Leeds. She left in 1995.
Philip Hayton - National BBC News presenter before he left the corporation in 2005.
Mike McCarthy - now on Sky News.Further Information
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