East Midlands Today
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| East Midlands Today | |
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| Format | Regional News |
| Starring | Dominic Heale, Anne Davies |
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| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One East Midlands |
| Picture format | PAL (576i, 16:9) |
| Original run | January 1991 – present |
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| Related shows | Midlands Today (for the West Midlands) |
East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for its East Midlands region, which comprises southern Derbyshire, Leicestershire, parts of Lincolnshire, southern Nottinghamshire and Rutland (note that this area coincides only partly with that of the East Midlands government region). Many homes in Peterborough also receive Waltham transmitter pictures, despite this city being covered by BBC East.
The programme is broadcast on BBC One from its studio at the BBC centre in Nottingham on London Road, also home to Radio Nottingham and is watched by around 250,000 viewers each night. The main transmitter for the programme is Waltham near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on Sky Digital channel 980 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service and on broadband about an hour after the show has been broadcast.
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[edit] History
East Midlands Today was established as an independent programme in January 1991, having previously been part of the Midlands Today programme (which began on September 28 1964) Midlands Today now covers just the West Midlands. The split arose from criticisms of Midlands Today being too Birmingham-centric, with a lot of airtime devoted to Birmingham. On February 5 1996, the show introduced the (current) double-manned presentation with Quentin Rayner and Kathy Rochford. Quentin, who joined the BBC in 1984, joined EMT in 1992 as a reporter. The programme's newer (generic) 'look', in line with most other BBC regional TV news programmes, was introduced on September 16 2002, with an update on September 6 2004. In April 2008, a new format was introduced. Since 2006, it has had little competition as the ITV offering, Central Tonight has only a skeleton set of staff in Nottingham, and closed its TV centre in 2004. In the 1990s, Central News East used to be much more popular than East Midlands Today.
[edit] Transmission
Viewers in Lincolnshire may also receive Look North, with stories often duplicated by both newsrooms. Similarly, other parts of the East Midlands Today region may variously also receive Look East, or even, towards the Buxton area of Derbyshire, North West Tonight.
[edit] Schedule
BBC East Midlands Today has morning updates at 6:25, 6:55, 7:25, 7:55, 8:25 and 8:55 each lasting between three and five minutes. The Breakfast bulletins feature weather from a BBC Met Office National forecaster, a travel update and a preview of what is to come on the East Midlands local radio stations, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Leicester and BBC Radio Nottingham. The lunchtime programme is broadcast from 1:30-1:45pm and contains the latest headlines and weather from one of the two forecasters based in the region. A short mid-afternoon update follows at 3:00pm. The main evening programme is shown from 6:30-7:00pm and features the day's news, sport, weather and features from around the East Midlands. The late bulletin runs from 10:28-10:34pm and features a final look at the news, weather and on occasion, sport.
The latest edition of the main evening programme can be watched again via the East Midlands Today website.
[edit] Presenters
Currently, the East Midlands Today on-air team consists of the following:
[edit] Main presenters
- Dominic Heale - Main Presenter since 2001, Occasional Lunchtime and Late Presenter
- Anne Davies - Main Presenter since 2001, Occasional Late Presenter
[edit] Other presenters
- Mel Coles - Breakfast Presenter since 2004
- Angelina Socci - Breakfast and Weekend Presenter since 2005
- Carol Hinds - Reporter 1993 - Present, Breakfast and Lunchtime Presenter since 2001
- Geeta Pendse - Breakfast Presenter since 2007
- Carolyn Moses - Weekend Presenter and Reporter since 2007
- Kylie Pentelow - 8 O'Clock and Late Presenter since 2007, Evening Relief Presenter since 2008
- Jo Healey - Late Presenter since 1995, Occasional Evening Relief Presenter since 1994
- Sarah Teale - Occasional 8 O'Clock Presenter since 2008
- Victoria Hicks - Weekend Presenter since 2000
- Emma Hill - Weekend presenter since 2003
- Quentin Rayner - Evening Relief Presenter and Reporter since 1991
- Kathy Rochford - Main Presenter 1991 - 2001, Weekend Presenter since 2001
- Geoff Maskell - Occasional Weekend Presenter
[edit] Sports Presenters
- Colin Hazelden - Also occasional programme presenter and late preenter since 2005
- Natalie Jackson - Relief sports presenter since 2005
- Angela Raffety - Sports Reporter and Occasional Sports Presenter since 1994
- Mark Shardlow - Sports Reporter and Occasional Sports Presenter since 2002
- Geoff Maskell - Sports Reporter and Occasional Sports Presenter since 2006
[edit] Weather presenters
- Sara Blizzard - Weather Presenter since 1999
- Des Coleman - Since 2007
- Nicola Beswick - Since 2004 (currently on maternity leave)
[edit] Reporters
- Quentin Rayner (Chief Reporter, also presenter)
- John Hess (Political Editor)
- Kathy Rochford (also presenter)
- Carol Hinds (also newsreader)
- Rob Glass
- Jeremy Ball (Social Affairs Correspondent)
- Matt Youdale (Education Correspondent)
- Rob Sissons (Health Correspondent)
- James Roberson (Special Features Correspondent)
[edit] Past presenters
- Shulie Ghosh
- Ian Woods (now with Sky News)
- Lukwesa Burak
- Martine Croxall (now with BBC News Channel and BBC World News)
- Lynette Lithgow
- Janet Mayo
- Jo Wheeler
- Lisa Dransfield - Weather Presenter 1997-1999, Lunchtime Presenter 1999-2004
- Nick Thatcher - 1997-2001
- Priya Kaur-Jones (now with GMTV)
[edit] External links
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