All Topics  
BBC North

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

BBC North
 
 
  Topics BBC North Topic Home

BBC North was the former name of the BBC Yorkshire
BBC Yorkshire

BBC Yorkshire is one of the BBC 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 Kingston upon Hull....
 and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is the name for the BBC's twelfth BBC English Regions, based in Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds ....
 regions of the BBC - and before 1968 had been name of the larger BBC North Region centred on Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
.

Programmes
Based at the Broadcasting Centre in Woodhouse Lane
A660 road

The A660 is a major road in West Yorkshire, England that runs from Leeds to Burley-in-Wharfedale where it meets the A65 road. The A660 is approximately long, and crosses the watershed from Airedale to lower Wharfedale....
, Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
 it was the production centre for the regional news programme Look North and BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio

BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations.Initially, stations had to be co-funded by the BBC and local authority, which only some Labour Party -controlled areas proved willing to do....
 station BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the England Metropolitan Counties of England of West Yorkshire....
. This region was split and renamed in June 2004, with BBC Yorkshire based in new premises in St.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'BBC North'
Start a new discussion about 'BBC North'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


BBC North was the former name of the BBC Yorkshire
BBC Yorkshire

BBC Yorkshire is one of the BBC 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 Kingston upon Hull....
 and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is the name for the BBC's twelfth BBC English Regions, based in Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds ....
 regions of the BBC - and before 1968 had been name of the larger BBC North Region centred on Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
.

Programmes


Based at the Broadcasting Centre in Woodhouse Lane
A660 road

The A660 is a major road in West Yorkshire, England that runs from Leeds to Burley-in-Wharfedale where it meets the A65 road. The A660 is approximately long, and crosses the watershed from Airedale to lower Wharfedale....
, Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
 it was the production centre for the regional news programme Look North and BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio

BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations.Initially, stations had to be co-funded by the BBC and local authority, which only some Labour Party -controlled areas proved willing to do....
 station BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the England Metropolitan Counties of England of West Yorkshire....
. This region was split and renamed in June 2004, with BBC Yorkshire based in new premises in St. Peter's Square Leeds, transmitting from Emley Moor
Emley Moor

Emley Moor is an area of moorland in the village of Emley, West Yorkshire, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England , and also the name of a supertall telecommunications and broadcasting station on the site....
 (and satellite channel 976) to a population of around 4 million - and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in Queen's Court in Hull
Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a City status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England....
 transmitting from Belmont
Belmont transmitting station

The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain, near Market Rasen and Louth, Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England ....
 (and satellite channel 977) to around 1.7 million.

History

The Leeds island site went on air on 25 March 1968 as a response to the imminent opening of Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television is the ITV contractor for the Yorkshire franchise. Up until 1974 this was primarily the three Riding of Yorkshire and associated areas served by the Emley Moor transmitting station television transmitter....
, the new ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 contractor based in Leeds serving the area east of the Pennines, formerly covered by part of the Granada Television
Granada Television

Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England. It previously held the "North of England" weekday franchise, which also covered most of Yorkshire, from 1954 until 1968 when its broadcast area was divided into two franchises....
 area. And in a similar manner to the impending ITV east-west Granada-Yorkshire split, the BBC divided the old North Region (based in Manchester) into BBC North-West (Manchester) and the new BBC North (Leeds).

This enabled a separate edition of Look North to be produced, initially from All Souls in Blackman Lane - a church hall near Woodhouse Lane - using equipment from a redundant OB scanner
Scanner

Scanner may refer to a number of technological devices:* Scanner , for searching for and receiving radio broadcasts* A rotating radar antenna...
 plus "mobile" telecine
Telecine

Telecine is the process of transferring film film into video form. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the process.Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on film, to be viewed with standard video equipment, such as televisions, VCR or computers....
 and film processing vans (the latter obtained from BBC TV News in London). Until this time, BBC viewers here had only the Manchester edition of the regional opt-out to watch, just as on ITV, Granada had been the only choice of regional news magazine programme for the entire Lancashire & Yorkshire viewing area.

Leeds was to have the third incarnation of the BBC programme called Look North, the others continued to be produced in Newcastle, another island site, and in Manchester, which was also the BBC Network Production Centre (NPC) in the north of England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

In the early seventies the programme moved into a new colour studio equipped with EMI 2001
EMI 2001

The EMI 2001 Broadcast Video Camera was an early, very successful British made Video camera tube#Plumbicon video camera that included the photographic lens within the body of the camera....
 cameras in the newly built Broadcasting Centre adjacent to , in Woodhouse Lane, where it then stayed for over thirty years until the studio was demolished in 2004.

Full Circle


BBC North Project – aka "Out of London" – is now used by the BBC to describe the creation of a new mediacity:uk
Mediacity:uk

mediacity:UK is a property development based on the Mass media industry, located in Salford Quays, in Salford, England. mediacity:uk is being developed by a partnership of the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company, Peel Holdings and Salford City Council....
 at Salford Quays
Salford Quays

Salford Quays is an area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. Previously the site of Salford Docks, it became one of the first and largest urban regeneration projects in the United Kingdom following the closure of the dockyards in 1982....
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England by population. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Metropolitan Borough of...
 on land owned by Peel Holdings
Peel Group

The Peel Group is a collection of property and transport companies based in Manchester, England. Also known as Peel Holdings, its assets are worth more than ?4.5bn and include major developments mainly across northern England and Scotland....
 who have planning permission for the central of this site. In 2006 Salford was named as the chosen location by the Board of Governors
Board of Governors of the BBC

The Board of Governors of the BBC was a group of twelve people who together regulated the BBC and represented the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners....
 and in 2007 the go-ahead was given to the project by the BBC Trust
BBC Trust

The BBC Trust is a body that oversees the BBC, being independent of BBC management and external bodies. Along with an BBC#Executive Board, the Trust took over the role of the old Board of Governors of the BBC on 1 January 2007....
.

It is believed that the BBC's very first regional TV studio was also in Manchester – Studio A at Dickenson Road – which it had bought from Mancunian Films
Mancunian Films

Mancunian Films was a motion picture production company based in Manchester, England that gave birth to the Mancunian Film Studios in 1947....
 in 1954.

See also

  • BBC English Regions
    BBC English Regions

    BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local television, radio, world wide web and teletext services in England. It is one of the BBC's four 'Nations' - the others being BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland....
  • Mediacity:uk
    Mediacity:uk

    mediacity:UK is a property development based on the Mass media industry, located in Salford Quays, in Salford, England. mediacity:uk is being developed by a partnership of the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company, Peel Holdings and Salford City Council....


External links