WORST NEWS PROGRAMME........... Posted Sun Jul 23 09:23:27 BST 2000 by WORST

Choose from:

* WESTCOUNTRY LIVE

* HTV NEWS WEST

* HTV NEWS WALES

* MERIDIAN TONIGHT WEST (NEWBURY)

* MERIDIAN TONIGHT SOUTH (SOUTHAMPTON)

* MERIDIAN TONIGHT SOUTH EAST (MAIDSTONE)

* LONDON TONIGHT

* ANGLIA NEWS EAST (NORWICH)

* ANGLIA NEWS WEST (CAMBRIDGE)

* CHANNEL REPORT

* CENTRAL NEWS AT SIX SOUTH (ABINGDON)

* CENTRAL NEWS AT SIX EAST (NOTTINGHAM)

* CENTRAL NEWS AT SIX WEST (BIRMINGHAM)

* GRANADA TONIGHT

* CALENDAR

* NORTH EAST TONIGHT NORTH

* NORTH EAST TONIGHT SOUTH

* LOOKAROUND

* SCOTLAND TODAY

* NORTH (Scotland) TONIGHT

* UTV LIVE

Consider when choosing:

* studio
* news reporters
* presenters
* music/theme tune
* popularity

OK. WHICH IS WORST FOR THE REGION IT BROADCASTS TO?

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Posted By c@t on Sun Jul 23 13:40:58 BST 2000:

It would have to be Granada Tonight of course!
* studio
They dont even have a desk, although the studio has its own kitchen! They sit of sofas and they look stupid!

* news reporters
They dont really have news as such on Granada, the reporters are usually just off at some animal sanctuary or other place of local 'interest'
* presenters
Lucy Meacock and Mark Owen,
Lucy needs a quick nudge every time that Granada returns from an ITN update during G.tonight, just to wake her up!
They also seem to find just about EVERYTHING funny, which isnt.

* music/theme tune
Please dont, perhaps the worst title sequence of any regional news programme ever, it is tacky with a capital T.

* popularity
What can you say! Its less popular than NW Tonight! And just when you thought it couldnt get any worse :)
It has lost the regional news award for about 7 years running now, it needs a revamp, quick.


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Posted By Dan F on Sun Jul 23 16:05:54 BST 2000:


>* presenters
>Lucy Meacock and Mark Owen,

I wondered what happened to him after Take That split.

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Posted By Damian McCaughan on Sun Jul 23 16:25:14 BST 2000:

Yeah, Granada Tonight by a sizeable margin.

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Posted By Anonymous on Mon Jul 24 09:02:39 BST 2000:


>* NORTH (Scotland) TONIGHT

Duh, obviously Scotland. If you are able to judge how bad the programme is you must be able to remember where it is. I note you haven't put (England) after programmes such as NorthEast Tonight.

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Posted By RB on Mon Jul 24 09:53:00 BST 2000:

I hate to be repetitive, but Granada Tonight

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Posted By Anonymous on Mon Jul 24 12:37:06 BST 2000:

Westcountry Live has to be the shittiest little excuse for a programme! It looks like some poxy student TV station....the technical quality is really poor!!!!! and those stupid "regional opt outs" are just full of shit that no-one wants to know TSW might not have been able to go "live to penzance for the latest on Mrs Brown's missing cat" but at least their local news had a bit more emphasis on quality rather than spreading itself too thin in order to provide needless and underfunded blanket coverage! If I find myself in the south west I watch Spotlight....much better all round...and a much better weather forecast as well!

Meridian Tonight (Southampton) on the other hand has to be the best ever....excellent thank god I mlive in the Meridian region....where would we be without Fred, Debbie and Carl!!!!!

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Posted By Chris on Mon Jul 24 21:06:19 BST 2000:

I'm in total agreeance that Granada Tonight is the worst waste of space ever to 'grace' the television.

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