BBC Where I Live TV

Ooh I know this one, I know this one!

Yes but you are well aware that that has nothing to do with administrative authorities in the sense of what are nowadays known as "counties" -- all the different types of them that there are.

Those historical systems of lieutenants [are you also pronouncing this the American way?] are hardly likely to multiply with the addition of Wrexham to a unitary authority, are they?

Why is there still an Earl of Wessex? Now *that* county hasn't been around for some time indeed.

And I'm not sure WT is that biased to Cardiff actually. Even though more does go on there, they do seem to play fair with the north.

You really need to read the local government act of 1996.

Just because a county council has been abolished, does not mean that the county has ceased to exist. In the case of Humberside and Avon, these counties as well as their county councils were abolished, and in the case of the former, a new County of East Riding of Yorkshire was created, thus making four counties of Yorkshire in total.


That is an irrelevant and specious statement. The requirement for a county is to have a Lord Lieutenant and a High Sheriff. The title of some peer is has no bearing whatsoever on the discussion.

But in what way does this affect the editorial policy of BBC Wales?

Wrexham is where Wrexham has always been. Regardless of which county it is in, varying as it seems to be doing, its coverage by the regional media isn't affected.

And that coverage seems to be pretty much proportional, in all honesty.

Although this Where I Live thing does sound very interesting, nevertheless.

This is also going to be trialled by English Regions in the West Midlands.

They have already produced a very impressive demo for Hereford & Worcester.

From what I've seen they are planning a video loop *per region* which will have 10 minute loops for each county inside that. So basically you'd get Birmingham at 00, Black Country at 10, Hereford & Worcester at 20 etc etc.

This is all alongside local news/sport/weather/travel/going out and a few other bits of content from the WIL sites.

Not sure how far the plan will get, but I'm sure we'll hear more of this one.

Yr Wyddgrug - not that this is anything to do with the thread.

Just to settle things, Clwyd is no longer a county in the administrative sense but is in historic terms. HM The Queen does indeed have a Lord Lieutenant of Clwyd, Mr Trevor Jones.

Clwyd has now been split into the unitary authorities of Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire. The BBC Where I Live site covers all three and is termed 'North East Wales', but the TV service was just for Wrexham.

People were against having it for all NE Wales, just wanted it for Wrexham.

(See how I've dragged that back on track!)

Yeah that's what I was gonna say.

This must be similar to the plans for local news bulletins for SW Scotland, within Reporting Scotland.

No, I think it's very different from that. Where I Live TV will be based on one town and is produced in part by the people who live there, not by the BBC. They also asked whether we'd like it within Wales Today or on demand via the red button 24/7, and we said the latter.

Only in as much as it will feature Video Nation shorts - it won't go any further than that.

In the form outlined this surely would be restricted to DSAT only.

A BBC Version of the micro-regions on ITV would be acceptable and could work well within the 6pm hour. I'd slot it in immediately prior to the regional weather. Gaining a few minutes for it by cutting the National by three, maybe doing away with the 6.30 weather forecast too and running the whole thing for a full hour too.

Chris.

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don't let corin hear you calling the black country a "county" - else we'll have to go through the whole amalgamation of the staffordshire county borough of smethwick blah blah blah into the west midlands county council then sandwell unitary authority



anyway, this whole idea sounds FAB,especially the news travel and weather bit - i think we shall have to christen it BBC Kay 24