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[Nick Harvey]

i had assumed it was jm having fit.

All things are possible, I'm sure.

The over use of capitals is probably intended to point us at Mr Mids Today.

Without seeing a selection of the posts, I can't put a style to it, but there's definitely a "Pannellesque" area in there.

Mind you, I was never certain that Ryan wasn't played by Jamez, so we're probably no further forward.

The only hard fact about Ryan was him talking of being from Guildford and all the Pannells living in Woodbridge Road. Even that doesn't prove much, though, as anyone else can check the electoral register as easily as I can.

[Dr Lobster*]

i think if the truth be told, many of the 'special' forum characters like jchristie, ryan pannel and a couple of others which have started posting on here recently are inventions of some of the more intelligent regulars. jm trolls just spam (anybody remember keef white?)

[DAS]

Ryan Pannell was a very real member from the old days (before electricity), who disappeared into a different username (I refuse to believe he left the site, he wouldn't have been able to control himself).

[Nick Harvey]

who disappeared into a different username

Want to throw out a suggested username?

Either here or in a PM?

[Ant]

Wouldn't mind seeing a grab of the thread with the 14 responses.

It was basically us asking how Nick or No Nick would work.

I think.

[B.E. El-Zebub]

I'm pleased to see I am not the only one to find Nelad very irritating.

[Gavin Scott]

I'm pleased to see I am not the only one to find Nelad very irritating.

As much as I would like to wage a war on TVF, I've decided just to RTP his questioning of my sexual prowess.

Silly sod clearly doesn't know me very well.

I really can't stand these pushy, mouthy little johnny-come-latelys.

[DAS]

who disappeared into a different username

Want to throw out a suggested username?

Either here or in a PM?

I'm rather spoilt for choice I think.

I often wonder whether Ryan was ahead of his time or just an idiot. Well, I say I often wonder...

[cdd]

I'm pleased to see I am not the only one to find Nelad very irritating.

As much as I would like to wage a war on TVF, I've decided just to RTP his questioning of my sexual prowess.

Silly sod clearly doesn't know me very well.

I really can't stand these pushy, mouthy little johnny-come-latelys.

Do you think they're genuine new members?
Real 'newbies' can't be that obnoxious!

[tvmercia]

They will be about the same as the BBC Leeds and BBC Hull regions AFAIK, so which Calendar you get can be worked out by which BBC region you get.

i.e. Calendar (west) will be the North/West/South Yorkshire counties, N Derbys, N Notts. Calendar (east) will be Lincs, E Yorks and N Norfolk.

Or thereabouts.

Can anyone say how big the Emley/Belmont overlap zone is? Is there a lot of shared settlements?

Oh, right, so does that mean that the Calendars won't correspond to their BBC counterparts after all?

I assume that the "Sheffield transmitter" is the one that serves the now-defunct "Calendar South" area???? So, that's gonna be grouped with the "East" show, then, is it?

A funny way of dividing things up...

Well, I'd never realistically expected the two programmes to be called anything but Calendar and Calendar (as opposed to Calendar West and Calendar East).

But, if the "East" version's transmission area includes this sort of area, then there's even more reason to not call it "East", as it's East-&-South really.

As has been often mentioned on this forum before, Lincs/E Yorks/N Norfolk is perhaps not gonna be news-rich enough to support a full 30-mins by itself. Adding the ex-"South" area will help eliminate this problem. And will also save ex-"South" viewers from enduring the Leeds-centric attitute of the "West" version.

BBC Leeds & Hull could learn a thing or two from ITV's new set-up...

Just to clarify... Will all of the ex-"Calendar South" area be getting the new "East" programme? Or just the far east of said area? Or what?

Also, do we know for an absolute fact that the East Riding of Yorkshire will get the "East" Calendar service?

I know nothing about the technicalities of transmitters and "sub-transmitters" (relays). But if it is technically possible to do so, might East Yorks get the "Leeds version" of Calendar (yes, I know that both versions' studios are in Leeds, but hopefully you get my meaning)???

This would make it more a case of a North/South split, rather than East/West. Doubtful I know, but just a thought.

With the obvious exception of the South Yorkshire county, that would essentially mean a Yorks/Non-Yorks split, which would probably be a good thing.

Well, I'd never realistically expected the two programmes to be called anything but Calendar and Calendar (as opposed to Calendar West and Calendar East).

But, if the "East" version's transmission area includes this sort of area, then there's even more reason to not call it "East", as it's East-&-South really.

As has been often mentioned on this forum before, Lincs/E Yorks/N Norfolk is perhaps not gonna be news-rich enough to support a full 30-mins by itself. Adding the ex-"South" area will help eliminate this problem. And will also save ex-"South" viewers from enduring the Leeds-centric attitute of the "West" version.

BBC Leeds & Hull could learn a thing or two from ITV's new set-up...

I've never thought about it that way before, on reflection there is sense in including the north Derbys and S-Yorks area with the Belmont coverage area.

The thing I'm struggling to understand.... I thought the Sheffield Transmitter was a relay for Emley Moor. So how will they broadcast Calendar 'East' off the Sheffield Transmitter, when Emley Moor and its other relays will be transmitting Calendar West? Confer this map
Belmont covers this area for comparison:

As for weather presentation, I imagine Jon Mitchell will do two separate weather forecasts for the two subregions; just as Charlie Neil/ Emma Jesson do for the Central East and West subregions.Belmont coverage

Can there be anyone alive that won't totally relish Calendar East thoroughly trouncing The Peter Levy Show in the ratings?

Its a nice thought to think that that stupid smirk and arrogance on the Peter Levy Show will be wiped off. My concern is that many of the viewers live in Hull & the East Riding (East of the Wolds) and are stuck with the Belmont signal. If they concentrate too much on Lincolnshire stories it will not work. One of the best things about Calendar before the split was that these people could still get news that concerned them. If the don't bother with stories from North of the Humber then nothing will be achieved. Much of the reason that Calendar split was based on research in Lincolnshire. Hull was too harder nut to crack because Uncle Levy was based there. So will they make the mistake & just go for the Lincolnshire angle?
Fingers crossed they don't make a similar mess of Calendar as the BBC did with Look North.

I'm confused... didn't the old Calendar East segment cover the East Riding? It was it just Lincs, north Norfolk, north Notts and the northern fringe of Cambs?

Looking at the coverage map of Belmont, the whole of East Riding is very much in the transmitter's range. I hope YTV don't make a mess of it, about time Mr Levy's smugness suffered a blow

I'm confused... didn't the old Calendar East segment cover the East Riding? It was it just Lincs, north Norfolk, north Notts and the northern fringe of Cambs?

Looking at the coverage map of Belmont, the whole of East Riding is very much in the transmitter's range. I hope YTV don't make a mess of it, about time Mr Levy's smugness suffered a blow

I think "officially" The East Riding was always in the old "Calendar East" area, but in practice much of the East Riding got the Leeds/North/West (whatever) version. And that will therefore continue even with the new 6pm arrangements.

I think what TROGGLES was actually getting at, is that the new "East/South" Calendar might actually acknowledge the fact that much of the East Riding doesn't really pick up "East" (i.e. by editorially ignoring it (or at least most of it)).

A comment earlier in the thread seemed to imply that the YTV Hull facility is now disused (?), so I presume that the new Lincoln office is the sole newsgathering centre for the "East" programme? (Or, at least, instead of, rather than as well as Hull)?????

Adding further reason to suspect that the new "East/South" programme may acknowledge very little north of the Humber?

In which case, the two new programmes are more North/South than West/East. Or even Northwest/Southeast, to be really pedantic.

So, the official internal names of the two new Calendar sub-regions is indeed North & South, not East & West!

Seeing as the description of the South programme's patch only mentions "The Humber" (as opposed to the whole East Riding), ITV have obviously been more realistic than the BBC about the fact that different parts of the East Riding get Emley or Belmont signals, rather than insisting that the whole East Riding must officially be in just one region/sub-region.

But, the description of the North programme's coverage area doesn't mention the East Riding either! :roll:

Is the whole of the former "Calendar South" area in the "new South" area, or split between both of the new sub-regions? If it's the latter, then presumably the Sheffield ITV facility supplies news to both new sub-regions?

Or has the Sheffield office gone, leaving each sub-region with just one newsgathering centre (and the Calendar region as a whole with just two ITV buildings)???

why on earth do these two characters have an unhealthy obsession with the minutiae of calendar sub-regional editorial and transmitter boundaries. as far as i know neither of them lives in the region and yet they feel the need to make inane post after inane post on the subject.

i know i am on dodgy ground casting the first stone when it comes to posting about regional trivialities - but i think this pair have taken it to a deeper, more unsavoury level.

i spit on them.

[Lorns]

I logged on this morning to TVF and James Martin had a thread going over there about metropol. I see it has now disappeared and he is now banned. What happened?