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BBC North (Group) is an operational

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of the

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. It is also a brand that has been used by the BBC to mean: *The large ''BBC North'' region, centred on

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, that was active from the late 1920s until 1968 and was based upon one of the four UK regional radio transmission stations. *The ''BBC North'' region, centred on

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, that was active between 1968 and 2004 and which was split to form

BBC Yorkshire BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC. It was formed from the division of the former BBC North region into BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Kingston upon Hull. Serving West, North and South Yorkshire a ...

and BBC Yorks & Lincs. *The operational department called ''BBC North'' that combined the output of the BBC's northern regions between 1990 and 1996. *The ''BBC North Group'' of major BBC departments that have already moved or are moving from

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to MediaCityUK in

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from 2011 onwards as part of the ''BBC North Project''.

BBC region 1920s–1968

The first ''BBC North'' operation was a large region, based in

and covering the areas now served by

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and

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 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 a ...

. Regional radio broadcasting was largely based at a leased studio complex above a bank known as 'Old Broadcasting House' at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre. These studios became the base for radio output from the region in 1929. The BBC's first regional television studio, studio A, would be based elsewhere in the city – at a converted church on Dickenson Road in Rusholme, which opened in 1954 after being owned and operated by

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. Regional television news bulletins began from Piccadilly's studio N on 30 September 1957 and served the entire North of England. Two years later, the northern half of the region (the North East and Cumbria) began receiving its own TV news bulletins from Newcastle (

) while the two distinct areas either side of the Pennines continued to receive what eventually became ''Look North'' from Manchester until 22 March 1968. Regional radio output for this area continued on an opt-out of

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until September 1980 (by which time, six BBC Local Radio stations had been set up to cover the North West & Yorkshire regions).

BBC region 1968–2004

Programmes

Based at the Broadcasting Centre at Woodhouse Lane in

, BBC North was the production centre for regional television output, including the nightly news programme '' Look North'' and BBC Local Radio station BBC Radio Leeds.

History

The Leeds island site went on air on 25 March 1968 as a response to the imminent opening of

Yorkshire Television ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...

, the new ITV contractor based in Leeds serving the area east of the Pennines, formerly part of the Granada Television area. And in a similar manner to the impending ITV east-west Granada-Yorkshire split, the BBC divided the old North Region (based in Manchester) into BBC North West (Manchester) and the new BBC North (Leeds). This enabled a separate edition of ''Look North'' to be produced, initially from All Souls in Blackman Lane - a church hall near Woodhouse Lane - using equipment from a redundant OB scanner plus "mobile"

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and film processing vans (the latter obtained from BBC TV News in London). Until this time, BBC viewers here had only the Manchester edition of the regional opt-out to watch, just as on ITV, where Granada had been the only choice of regional news magazine programme for the entire Lancashire & Yorkshire viewing area. The launch of

four months later would mark the launch of ITV's own regional news programme for the new region, '' Calendar''. Leeds was to have the third incarnation of the BBC programme called ''Look North''; the others continued to be produced in Newcastle, another ''island site'', and in Manchester, which was also the BBC ''Network Production Centre'' (NPC) for the north of

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. In 1974 the programme moved into a new colour studio equipped with

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cameras in the newly built Broadcasting Centre adjacent t
Broadcasting House
in Woodhouse Lane, where it remained for thirty years until the studio was demolished in 2004. During 2001 an opt-out service was introduced for viewers in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, consisting of a news summary within the main 6:30pm edition of ''Look North'' and a full length late bulletin on weeknights. The 6:30pm opt-out was extended into a full length 30 minute programme in November 2002. In June 2004, the BBC North region was fully split to form the

and North Midlands region and the

region. BBC Yorkshire and North Midlands is based in St. Peter's Square, Leeds, and is transmitted from

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and its associated relays, as well as by satellite from SES Astra 1N at 28.2 East on 10.803 GHz, SID 6441, Freesat EPG 966 to a population of around 4 million. BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is based in Queen's Court in Hull and is transmitted from Belmont and its associated relays, as well as by satellite from SES Astra 1N at 28.2 East on 10,788 GHz V, SID 10303, Freesat EPG 967 to around 1.7 million.

Operation 1990–1996

Between 1990 and 1996, the three northern regions of

, BBC North East and ''BBC North'' merged their administration and managerial departments as a cost-saving measure. The new service was centred on New Broadcasting House in

. The new service produced all of the regional programming, and all the regions used ''BBC North'' on-screen branding, but still retained the unique identity of the regional news programmes. The operation also became head of the Network Production Centre at Manchester, making BBC North one of the biggest producers of network television outside London. The regions were separated in 1996 in a drive to serve the regions better, which could not be done from Manchester alone.

BBC North Group (2004–present)

BBC North Group is one of eight major operational divisions of the

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the others being BBC Television,

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, BBC News Group, BBC Executive Board, BBC Management Board,

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and

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and comprises a number of BBC departments (25 in all), that are located and operating at the 200 acre (80ha) development MediaCityUK built by the

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, as part of the "BBC North Project", also called "Out of London". This group is directly answerable to the Director General's Office and the

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. The group contains

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, along with

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, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live,

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, BBC R & D (North Lab), BBC Radio 4 (programme production),

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(programme production),

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network production centre and

. The project began in 2006 when Salford was named as the chosen location by the

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and in 2007 the go-ahead was given to the project by the

. The previous

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Mark Thompson indicated that either

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, BBC Two or

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could also move by 2015. The day-to-day operation of production and broadcasting at MediaCityUK is now operated as BBC North for the BBC.

References

External links

Official BBC North website for news, events and updates

Look North 35th anniversary.

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BBC Jobs - BBC North 2011
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Mass media in Yorkshire Television channels and stations established in 1951 Organisations based in Salford Mass media companies based in Greater Manchester

1951 establishments in the United Kingdom