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Sorry Hazel, but what did you expect?
Well recently the BBC released some figures and they showed that 3,172 people from Salford applied for jobs with the BBC at MediaCity and just 24 people were successful. Local MP Hazel Blears is demanding an enquiry and calling the figure "incredibly disappointing". Well sorry Hazel, but what did you expect?
I'm with Matthew Wright. Are you?
The BBC's Delivering Quality First initiative has certainly caused a few headlines for its treatment of local radio, however much less discussed has been its impact on the BBC's regional TV output. However its changes there have been no less controversial.
Boris Johnson - more knowledgeable about TV production than broadcasters themselves
From the "Boris Johnson is clearly an expert on making television - better at it than even the BBC" file comes this rather farcical story....
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So long, New Broadcasting House
Wandering round the BBC's former Manchester studios
The Bill stops here
Andrew Bowden notices it's very strange to be living in Sun Hill
Jonathan Morrell
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About this site
Find out more about City Road
City Road
A look at Tyne Tees's studios at City Road, Newcastle.
Andy Kluz
Teesside news presenter
Logos in Print
Not on screen
News Timeline
News over the years
2000 Idents
Great look, too late
1999 ITV Generic Idents
TV from the heart?
Production Slides
Tyne Tees's copyright cards
Bill Steel
Chief announcer
Pam Royle
News presenter
Mike Neville
North East television legend
Mike Neville
North East television legend
Forging the Trident
From advertising sales to casinos via Tyne Tees and Yorkshire - the odd tale of Trident Television.
The Accountants Move In
Post-takeover and crippling costs hit the company as wave after wave of cutbacks occur.
Continuity Past - Newcastle
Forty years of continuity
Credits
Who did what
1979 Ident
Tyne Tees's most famous ident
Studio 4
The continuity studio
Promotions and Trailers
Promoting programmes
Early News Programmes
News in the early years
Jobs for the taking
Seeking employment
Nothern Life in pictures
A pictorial guide
1991 Ident
The post ITV era
1988 Ident
Computer animation arrives at TTTV
Other Presentation
Anything else
Tyne Tees Today
Corporate rebranding
And now, the weather 2
Weather in the 2000s
And now, the weather 1
Weather in the 1990s
North East Tonight 6
Mike Neville leaves
North East Tonight
Mike's switched
Tyne Tees News & Tonight
United branding
Northern Life
Tyne Tees's longest running news programme
Network North
The south gets its own programme
Other Newsreaders
Newsreaders past and present
North East Tonight 5
The programme leaves City Road
North East Tonight 3
Several new looks
North East Tonight 2
Going minimalist in 2000
North East Tonight and Primetime
The end of News at Ten changes everything
North East Today and North East Tonight
A new clone of "Tonight"
North East Tonight 4
North East Tonight goes corporate
A Fond Farewell
Tyne Tees is laid to rest, and City Road closed.
Starting The Day
The Tyne Tees way
Freeview: The rise and rise
Transferring the status quo
Other Announcers
Other occupants of the continuity hotseat
Earth & Sky
Free satellite vs digital terrestrial. DTT wins
Kathy Secker
Announcer
Whither ITV?
Andrew Bowden sees a post-analogue future
DTT Challenge
More good reasons for the end of analogue
Futurecast
We've arrived in the future we were always promised.
Dawn Thewlis
Network North presenter
The Epilogue
At the end of the day
2002 ITV Generic Ident
Tyne Tees is no more
Other Idents
Special idents used over the years
1998 Ident
Tyne Tees is back
Early Idents
Tyne Tees's early idents
Tip Top
Can they get an ONdigital victim back into pay-tv?
Back in the Old Gang
Two become once more one as as Yorkshire takes over Tyne Tees.
The Flash Files
Ident recreations
First Night
A look at the first night's schedule.
Three's Company
The arrival and departure of Channel 3 North East.
We Are One (Honest)
ITV try to unite under one logo.
Rebranding TTTV
A brand new spangley new look hits the station, and slowly starts being chipped away.
1970 Ident
In Colour
1992 Ident
Tyne Tees gets a new logo
1989 ITV Generic Ident
Tyne Tees goes corporate
Continuity Now - London
Going south
Clocks
Tick tock
Launching the Station
TV hits the North East
Channel 3 North East Ident
A big, giant 3
London's news
No more London News Network.
Fallen Idols
Andrew Bowden watches Saddam's fall from grace
Break Bumpers
The bits before the ads
Continuity Past - Leeds
Cost saving and centralisation in the north
Rebranding TTT
The new look that came ten years too late
Paying Up
Getting to keep your box after all
Digital acorns
The future of Freeview
The empire strikes back
Taking your box home with you
Devolution
ITV will soon be effectively unregulated says Andrew Bowden
An LWT Diary
Getting up early for the last day of LWT
Five wins
Andrew Bowden on the resurgent Channel Five
No news is good news
ITN News Channel? No thanks
Branding Sacred Cows
How ITV1 was always going to be an error
New Ways And Means
When is 'all new' not exactly all new?
Paul Frost
The Beard on the box
Tom Coyne
Tyne Tees's first newsreader
Five for news
Why Five does it best
Federation News
The problems of ITV1's local news
Multichannel failure
Notice to quit: ITV Digital plans to close
Three's company
Andrew Bowden on the disastrous Channel 3 North East
Rock and a hard place
Satellite vs terrestrial. Terrestrial wins
Bob Johnson
Weather man extraoirdiare
Set pieces
Screen furniture from ITN
Fourgone conclusion
Andrew Bowden on how C4 lost its way
Ultimate Branding
The best of television presentation
All together now
It's time for radical change at ITV, says Andrew Bowden
The colour of news
A new news for London
Neville Wanless
King of smooth
Fourth estate
A channel that has chosen subtle branding
Radio
Is DAB Dead?
What is really going on?
Past Radio 1
Recalling Radio 1
Pure Evoke II
Reviewed: The ultimate portable DAB/FM radio
DABtastic?
It has well and truly arrived, but is it worth switching?
