BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

English region of the BBC

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's area within the UK
TV transmitters| Belmont
Radio stations| BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Headquarters| Kingston upon Hull
Area| East Yorkshire
Lincolnshire
North West Norfolk
parts of Nottinghamshire
Nation| BBC English Regions

Key people

| David Jennings
(Head of Regional
& Local Programmes)

Launch date

| November 2002
BBC

UK-wide

* Television
* stations
* programmes
* Radio
* stations
* local
* BBC Online
* BBC Red Button
* Ceefax
* iPlayer
* BBC Sounds

Management

* Chairman
* Samir Shah
* Director-General
* Tim Davie
* BBC Board
* BBC Charter

Departments

* BBC Academy
* Archives
* BBC Film
* BBC World Service (Timeline)
* Television
* Design & Engineering
* Monitoring
* News
* Radio
* Sport
* Weather

Nations and regions

* BBC Cymru Wales
* BBC Scotland
* BBC Northern Ireland

* * *

* BBC English Regions

* * *

* Birmingham
* Bristol
* East
* East Midlands
* London
* Manchester
* North East & Cumbria
* North West
* South
* South East
* South West
* West
* West Midlands
* Yorkshire
* Yorkshire & Lincolnshire

Commercial subsidiaries

* BBC Studios
* BBC Studios Productions
* BBC Studioworks
* BBC Worldwide

History

* Archives
* Sound Archive
* BBC Trust
* Board of Governors
* British Broadcasting Company
* Coat of arms
* Controversies
* Criticism
* First day of TV
* Logo
* Radio Times
* Genome
* Timeline
* HD timeline

Key properties in London

* Broadcasting House
* Lime Grove (former)
* Maida Vale Studios
* Television Centre (former)
* White City & Media Village

Birmingham

* Drama Village
* Mailbox Birmingham
* Pebble Mill Studios (former)

Cardiff

* New Broadcasting House, Cardiff
* Broadcasting House (former)
* Drama Village (Roath Lock)
* BBC Hoddinott Hall

Other locations

* Broadcasting House, Belfast
* Broadcasting House, Bristol
* BBC Elstree Centre
* MediaCityUK, Salford
* Pacific Quay, Glasgow

* v
* t
* e

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, sometimes abbreviated to BBC Yorks & Lincs, is the name for the BBC's twelfth English Region, based in Kingston upon Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds (now known as BBC Yorkshire). The primary transmitter is located at Belmont and covers East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, north west Norfolk and eastern parts of Nottinghamshire.

## Services

[edit]

### Television

[edit]

The regional output of BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire consists of the flagship Look North, and the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire edition of Politics North,[1] one of the regional successors to Sunday Politics. The region previously aired the Super League Show, produced by PDI Media at BBC Yorkshire's studio in Leeds and simulcast in the North West and in the North East and Cumbria.[2]

### Radio

[edit]

The region is the controlling centre for the local radio stations BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

Both radio stations simulcast some programming from each other, the radio stations in the BBC Yorkshire region, and with BBC Radio 5 Live.

### Online and Interactive

[edit]

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire also produces regional news & local radio pages for BBC Red Button and BBC Local News websites for each county.

## History

[edit]

Announced as part of the BBC's 'Project Hull' investment in October 2001, BBC Yorks and Lincs began as a seven-minute opt-out on the Belmont transmitter of the main Look North programme from Leeds, presented by Clare Frisby and the late bulletin following the Ten O'Clock News. On 11 November 2002, the Look North programme for the region launched as a full programme presented by Peter Levy and Helen Fospero. The programme expanded into new headquarters in April 2004, and the BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorks and Lincs region became officially separate.

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's first Head of Regional and Local Programmes (HRLP) was Helen Thomas, appointed in March 2004. In November 2006, Helen Thomas became HRLP of BBC Yorkshire in Leeds, and Catherine Hearne was appointed HRLP of BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. She took up her post in January 2007, but left to go to BBC West Midlands. The first Editor of Look North was Roger Farrant, whose departure to Bristol led to the appointment of Steven Punter as Editor in November 2004. Punter left the BBC soon after. Dave Betts ran Look North from 2006 until June 2007. Mark Hayman replaced him as the region's first TV News Editor running an integrated team of journalists and technicians, but has since moved to BBC West Midlands.

## Studios

[edit]

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's Hull headquarters

The first studios used by BBC Yorks and Lincs housed the opt-out service, launched in 2001, which operated from a studio above the Post Office in 9 Chapel Street, Hull. The small studios and team were enough to produce an opt-out, but when the time came in November 2002 to launch their own programme, the studio was noticeable for its size. It was so small that there was room for the desk only; other features such as weather had to be done elsewhere and played out on a screen in the studio.

Eventually, to coincide with the separation of the service, a new studio complex was built and unveiled by Manor Property Group at Queen's Court in Queen's Gardens in 2005. The new studio complex housed the new, expanded service, with a central newsroom, a good sized studio for the Look North programme, as well as radio studios for BBC Radio Humberside.

The region also has a news bureau in Lincoln.

## See also

[edit]

* BBC portal

* BBC English Regions
* BBC Radio Humberside
* BBC Radio Lincolnshire
* BBC Radio Sheffield
* BBC Radio Norfolk

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Politics North (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
2. ^ "Super League Show". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

## External links

[edit]

* BBC Local News at BBC Online
* BBC Look North from Hull at BBC Online
* BBC Look North from Yorkshire & Lincolnshire at BBC Online

* v
* t
* e

BBC

Services|

* Television
* stations
* programmes
* Radio
* stations
* local
* BBC Online
* BBC Red Button
* Ceefax
* iPlayer
* BBC Sounds

Management|

* Chair
* Samir Shah
* Director-General
* Tim Davie
* BBC Board
* BBC Charter
* BBC independence

Departments|

* BBC Academy
* Archives
* BBC Film
* BBC World Service (Timeline)
* Television
* Design & Engineering
* Monitoring
* News
* Pronunciation Unit
* Radio
* Sport
* Weather

Nations and
regions|

| England|

* Birmingham
* Bristol
* East
* East Midlands
* London
* Manchester
* North East & Cumbria
* North West
* South
* South East
* South West
* West
* West Midlands
* Yorkshire
* Yorkshire & Lincolnshire

|

Rest of UK|

* Northern Ireland
* Scotland
* Gàidhlig
* Wales

Commercial
subsidiaries|

* BBC Studios
* Productions
* Natural History Unit
* Home Entertainment
* Demon Music Group
* BBC Studioworks
* BBC Worldwide

History|

* Archives
* Sound Archive
* BBC Trust
* Board of Governors
* British Broadcasting Company
* Coat of arms
* Controversies
* Criticism
* First day of TV
* Logo
* Radio Times
* Genome
* Timeline

Key
properties
(full list)|

| London|

* Broadcasting House
* Lime Grove (former)
* Maida Vale Studios
* Television Centre (former)
* White City & Media Village

|

Birmingham|

* Drama Village
* Mailbox Birmingham
* Pebble Mill Studios (former)

Cardiff|

* New Broadcasting House, Cardiff
* Broadcasting House (former)
* Drama Village (Roath Lock)
* BBC Hoddinott Hall

Other locations|

* Broadcasting House, Belfast
* BBC Elstree Centre
* MediaCityUK, Salford
* Pacific Quay, Glasgow

Finance|

* Television licence
* history

Projects|

* Backstage
* BBC Micro
* BBC UK regional TV on satellite
* The Box
* Bitesize
* BritBox
* Dirac
* Domesday
* Freely
* Freesat
* h2g2
* Local Democracy Reporting Service
* Redux
* YouView

Technical|

* Programme Catalogue
* Programme Identifier

Other|

* List of songs banned by the BBC
* Live at the BBC

* Category
* Portal
* Commons

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template