BBC Night Network
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The BBC Night Network was a radio network
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 which linked up the North East England
North East England
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, Yorkshire and the Humber
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, and North West England
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North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

 regions of BBC Local Radio
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. Each station would share the same programming from 7:00 p.m. until closedown at 1:00 a.m.

Pre-history

From August 1986 to the launch of the Night Network, the four Yorkshire stations (Leeds, York, Sheffield and Humberside) had been simulcasting specialist music programmes on weeknights between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm, later extending to six days a week (Wednesday to Monday) between 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm – Tuesday night was reserved for local sports coverage.

History

The BBC Night Network was launched in May 1989 in the then BBC North and BBC North East regions – broadcast on Radio Newcastle, Radio Cleveland, Radio York, Radio Leeds, Radio Humberside and Radio Sheffield between 6:00 pm and 12:00 am every night. Any local programming broadcast after 6 pm, including weeknight sport and ethnic minority output, was broadcast only on medium-wave frequencies with Night Network output broadcasting on FM.

The network was expanded in 1991 to include the four BBC North West
BBC North West
BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Walsden in West Yorkshire, the Isle of Man , north-west Derbyshire, the Yorkshire Dales including Settle and Ribblesdale, and southern Cumbria.BBC North West television output is also broadcast in...

 stations – BBC GMR (now Radio Manchester), Radio Merseyside, Radio Lancashire and Radio Cumbria. The stations had previously run their own Network North West simulcast service. The Night Network now broadcast from 7:00 pm until midnight with specialist music programmes on-air between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm (the exception being made for midweek sports coverage) and a late show from Lancaster
Lancaster, Lancashire
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, presented by Bob Roberts.

The late show was extended to 12:30 a.m. a year later and eventually to 1:00 a.m. When Bob Roberts left the 2200-0100 slot was taken over by a programme called Late Night North. The all talk format was hosted by Mike Parr from the Newcastle studios and later became the biggest talk show in the North with David Dunning hosting a mix of interviews and phone-in in 1997 when Parr moved to Radio Newcastle breakfast. Late Night North would usually come from Newcastle but Dunning would broadcast from York, Sheffield, Hull, Leeds, GMR and Merseyside on regular occasions too. Late Night North, developed by Radio Newcastle editor Tony Fish, was very popular. Eventually after Dunning left and Alex Trelinski had taken over, the show moved to Manchester and a more music based format was introduced when Andy Peebles
Andy Peebles
-Early life:The son of a head postmaster, Peebles attended Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire before training in hotel management.After DJing at a college dance he was offered a job at Samanthas in Bournemouth.He worked at Chelsea Village,The Scotch of St James in London and at the Hardrock...

 hosted the programme. In 2002 Yorkshire stations parted from the one north network to bring phone-in back with Alex Hall (Former Pulse presenter).

News

Each region opted-out for the news; there would be three bulletins broadcast lasting exactly five minutes long, one for Yorkshire and Humberside, one for the North East and one for the North West.
  • Charles Lees read the news in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire for BBC Radios Humberside, York, Sheffield and Leeds.
  • Sharon Barbour read the news in the North East area for BBC Radios Newcastle, Cumbria and Cleveland.

Jingles

BBC Night Network's jingles were produced by TM Century, now TM Studios. The original package was just for the Yorkshire and the North-East while a second package was produced for the rest of the network.

Current simulcast arrangements

Since the Night Network arrangement was abandoned, the stations involved have taken steps to produce more locally produced programming and in some cases, extend broadcasting hours.
  • BBC Yorkshire
    BBC Yorkshire
    BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC. It was formed from the division of the former BBC North region into BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Hull.-Television:...

    : Radio Leeds, Radio York and Radio Sheffield simulcast late-night shows from Sunday to Friday nights. Radio York also carries some programming from the BBC North East and Cumbria
    BBC North East and Cumbria
    BBC North East and Cumbria is the BBC English Region covering Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Teesside and all but the southern part of Cumbria...

     region.
  • BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
    BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
    BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, sometimes abbreviated to BBC Yorks & Lincs, is the name for the BBC's twelfth English Region, based in Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds...

    : Radio Humberside shares the late show from Radio Leeds, prior to cost cutting the late show was live and locally produced in Hull
    Kingston upon Hull
    Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

    .
  • BBC North East and Cumbria
    BBC North East and Cumbria
    BBC North East and Cumbria is the BBC English Region covering Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Teesside and all but the southern part of Cumbria...

    : John Caine's Rock Show is simulcast across the region with Radio Cumbria and BBC Tees also simulcasting Braithwaite's Country on Sunday evenings. Radio Newcastle broadcasts 24 hours a day throughout the week and BBC Tees broadcasts 24 hours a day on weekdays.
  • BBC North West
    BBC North West
    BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Walsden in West Yorkshire, the Isle of Man , north-west Derbyshire, the Yorkshire Dales including Settle and Ribblesdale, and southern Cumbria.BBC North West television output is also broadcast in...

    : Indus is broadcast on Radio Manchester and Radio Lancashire on Sunday evenings. Radio Manchester broadcasts 24 hours a day throughout the week.

Presenters

  • Tony Fisher
  • Chris Choi
  • Nicky Brown
  • Bob Preedy
    Bob Preedy
    Robert "Bob" Preedy is a broadcaster, presenter on BBC Radio York, a book author and was formerly the chief continuity announcer for Yorkshire Television.-Television:...

  • Alex Hall
  • Martin Kelner
    Martin Kelner
    Martin B. Kelner is a British journalist, author, comedian and radio presenter, educated at Stand Grammar School, in Whitefield near Manchester....

  • Edouard Lapaglie
    Edouard Lapaglie
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  • Ian Hughes
  • Dan Chisholm
  • Bob Roberts
  • Mike Par
  • David Dunning

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