[TV] ITV Meridian

[swindonseagull]

Having had Sky installed last month i was surprised that living in Swindon the ITV regional news is set to Meridian....we don't normally watch regional news but when its on I have been pleasantly shocked that in Swindon I see BHA news.....( previously on Virgin it was set to Birmingham)

Question is though why don't they ever mention Southampton or Portsmouth?? The region is called Thames Valley but Brighton is not in the Thames Valley..

BTW how old is Fred Dinage? I can remember him when I was a kid many moons ago..

 

[jakarta]

BTW how old is Fred Dinage? I can remember him when I was a kid many moons ago..

There is a Portrait of truly hideous mien in a locked Attic at Meridian...

 

[Weststander]

Having had Sky installed last month i was surprised that living in Swindon the ITV regional news is set to Meridian....we don't normally watch regional news but when its on I have been pleasantly shocked that in Swindon I see BHA news.....( previously on Virgin it was set to Birmingham)

Question is though why don't they ever mention Southampton or Portsmouth?? The region is called Thames Valley but Brighton is not in the Thames Valley..

BTW how old is Fred Dinage? I can remember him when I was a kid many moons ago..

I assume because the Poole to Havant belt has a population of 1.3M and they pander to them, with very little interest in the rest of the region. Possibly laziness too ... all a short hop from the Stains studio for filming.

BBC South with Sally Taylor are just a bad. Their region goes all the way to Oxford! The Albion used to get a token 10 seconds.

Brighton and Hove got lucky with a rejig of freeview regions about 3 years ago. BBC news now comes from Tunbridge Wells, where Brighton and the Albion get more than our fair share of time.

 

[nickbrighton]

Meridian are the "Argus" of the TV world. Awful presenters, very lazy news coverage-if its in a 25 mile radius of Southampton its newsworthy-if not they fit it in when there is no "Dead Donkey" story from Southampton to show. Sport is all Southampton, Bournemouth and Pompey FC and Hampshire CC, with BHA and Sussex CC getting lip service. I find it unwatchable now. Brighton barely gets a mention, and considering the relative size of the cities their coverage id a disgrace

 

[Jack Straw]

You can watch the weather with Holly Green, with her hair tucked behind her left ear, her bubbly personality, shiny blonde hair, lovely figure. I like Holly!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Question is though why don't they ever mention Southampton or Portsmouth??

Who?

 

[Weststander]

You can watch the weather with Holly Green, with her hair tucked behind her left ear, her bubbly personality, shiny blonde hair, lovely figure. I like Holly!

Same here. Love her. She was equally stunning when with the BBC. Pretty, slim, happy .... perfect.

 

[Jack Straw]

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[AmexRuislip]

Is Out Of Town still on Meridian?

 

[swindonseagull]

Meridian are the "Argus" of the TV world. Awful presenters, very lazy news coverage-if its in a 25 mile radius of Southampton its newsworthy-if not they fit it in when there is no "Dead Donkey" story from Southampton to show. Sport is all Southampton, Bournemouth and Pompey FC and Hampshire CC, with BHA and Sussex CC getting lip service. I find it unwatchable now. Brighton barely gets a mention, and considering the relative size of the cities their coverage id a disgrace

Totally the opposite to what Im seeing....as I said Ive seen no mention of Southampton, Pompy or Bournemouth....maybe you have a different Meridian region?

 

[theboybilly]

You can watch the weather with Holly Green, with her hair tucked behind her left ear, her bubbly personality, shiny blonde hair, lovely figure. I like Holly!

You are not alone Jack

 

[Weststander]

Totally the opposite to what Im seeing....as I said Ive seen no mention of Southampton, Pompy or Bournemouth....maybe you have a different Meridian region?

They split the region into subregions for the first 15 minutes, bizarrely all presented by Fred, so some pre-filming going on. Our freeview gives us the Southampton based version, whilst Virgin HD channel 113 Fred giving us news of Kent, East Sussex and Brighton.

 

[swindonseagull]

Is Out Of Town still on Meridian?

Say what you will the countryside is still....

https://youtu.be/VqV9IQ9vJ0c

your era Phil

 

[Stat Brother]

They split the region into subregions for the first 15 minutes, bizarrely all presented by Fred, so some pre-filming going on. Our freeview gives us the Southampton based version, whilst Virgin HD channel 113 Fred giving us news of Kent, East Sussex and Brighton.

While those of us in West Sussex are catered to by a naked Salma Hayek.

T'is the hand in life we were dealt.

 

[Weststander]

Is Out Of Town still on Meridian?

Still presented by Jack Hargreaves and Fred on early Friday evenings, but only in rural Dorset. Tonight they covered steel ploughs, Shire horses and scrumpy. Not all at the same time.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Say what you will the countryside is still....

https://youtu.be/VqV9IQ9vJ0c

your era Phil

I bet your Sky man arrived, all kitted out, as though he was climbing a mountain.
Anyway, I'm more of a Neil Sedaka fan

 

[VAL1850]

Say what you will,
School dinners make you ill,
And Davy Crockett died of shepherd's pie.
Our school din-dins come from pig bins
Out of town.

 

[Weststander]

Say what you will,
School dinners make you ill,
And Davy Crockett died of shepherd's pie.
Our school din-dins come from pig bins
Out of town.

[MENTION=12620]VAL1850[/MENTION] - into skiing or snowboarding?

 

[VAL1850]

[MENTION=12620]VAL1850[/MENTION] - into skiing or snowboarding?

Skiing Definately You got it ....

 

[Weststander]

Skiing Definately You got it ....

Ditto. Love it.