BBC LOOK NORTH (YORKSHIRE AND NORTH MIDLANDS)

'''BBC Look North''' is a name used by the BBC for its local regional news programme in three regions in the North of England. The new corporate titles began on 16 September 2002. The programme 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.
The Leeds programme covers the areas of Radio Leeds and Radio Sheffield. Due to the size of North Yorkshire, the listenership of Radio York is covered by the geographically-multitudinous Look North programmes from Leeds and Newcastle.

Contents

On air

Weekdays

History

Reception issues

Presenters

Breakfast bulletins

13.30 bulletin

18.30 bulletin

22.30 bulletin

Weekend bulletins

Weather presenters

Reporters

Former presenters

See also

External links

Video clips

On air

''BBC Look North'' airs seven days a week:

Weekdays

★ '06.27-06.30' during BBC Breakfast

★ '06.57-07.00' during ''BBC Breakfast''

★ '07.27-07.30' during ''BBC Breakfast''

★ '07.57-08.00' during ''BBC Breakfast''

★ '08.27-08.30' during ''BBC Breakfast''

★ '08.57-09.00' during ''BBC Breakfast''

★ '13.30-13.40' following the BBC One O'Clock News

★ '15.20-15.25' before CBBC

★ '18.30-19.00' main bulletin, following the BBC Six O'Clock News

★ '22.25-22.30' during the BBC Ten O'Clock News

History

The Leeds news programme is broadcast from Emley Moor to Yorkshire and the northern parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The programme has been broadcasting from Leeds since 25 March 1968. This was the main programme for the whole of the Yorkshire region until 11 November 2002, when a new studio had been built in Hull, and the programme split in two. Look North Leeds was produced in a building on Woodhouse Lane, close to the University of Leeds. A new building was built near the West Yorkshire Playhouse on St Peter's Square, and Look North moved there on 27 September 2004. A separate independent Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) is hosted by Peter Levy.

Reception issues

Homes in southern areas of North Yorkshire (York and southwards) whose aerials pointing at Bilsdale, receive BBC One North East. This leads to some people in this area receiving BBC One North East, with their 'local' news being mainly from the Newcastle area, whilst most households with their aerials pointing to Emley Moor receive BBC One Yorkshire, based in Leeds, seems much more 'local'.

Presenters

Breakfast bulletins

Regular presenter ★ 'Clare Frisby'

Relief presenters ★ 'Amanda Harper' ★ 'Tom Ingall' ★ 'Charlotte Leeming'

13.30 bulletin

Regular presenters ★ 'Christa Ackroyd' ★ 'Harry Gration'

Relief presenters ★ 'Clare Frisby' ★ 'Jenny Hill' ★ 'Ian White'

18.30 bulletin

Regular presenters ★ 'Christa Ackroyd' ★ 'Harry Gration'

Relief presenters ★ 'Penny Bustin' ★ 'Jenny Hill' ★ 'Ian White'

22.30 bulletin

Regular presenter

★ 'Ian White'

Weekend bulletins

Regular presenter ★ 'Harry Gration'

Relief presenters ★ 'Nicola Hudson'

Weather presenters

Regular presenters ★ 'Lisa Gallagher (weather forecaster)' ★ 'Paul Hudson'

Relief presenters ★ 'Seán Batty' ★ 'Cecilia Daly' ★ 'Tomasz Schafernaker'

Reporters

★ Tanya Arnold (sports presenter/reporter; also reports on non-sports events) ★ Phil Bodmer (Bradford correspondent) ★ Ian Bucknall ★ Penny Bustin (health correspondent) ★ Jamie Coulson ★ Ben Cryer ★ John Cundy ★ Amanda Harper ★ Danni Hewson ★ Jenny Hill ★ Tom Ingall

★ 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)

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 One O'Clock News.

★ 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 - BBC News 24 presenter before he left the corporation in 2005.

★ Mike McCarthy - now on Sky News.

See also

★ BBC News

★ BBC North

★ Calendar

External links

★ BBC ''Look North'' from Yorkshire at bbc.co.uk

★ TV Newsroom

★ Inside Out

Video clips

★ Latest programme

★ Latest politics show

★ David Blunkett tells Christa 'he should have seen things coming' in October 2006

★ Leeds legend Alan Bennett