| Look North | |
|---|---|
| Format | Regional News |
| Presented by | Carol Malia |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC North East and Cumbria |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original airing | 1964 |
BBC Look North is the BBC's regional television news service for the BBC North East and Cumbria region. The programmes are produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre on Barrack Road in Newcastle upon Tyne with journalists also based at newsrooms in Middlesbrough, Durham, York and Carlisle.
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The programme can be watched in any part of the UK on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. It broadcasts on analogue and digital terrestrial from the Pontop Pike, Chatton, Bilsdale and Caldbeck transmitters.
Prior to the start of Look North, the BBC television region launched in 1962 with Home at Six, a weeknight 20-minute news magazine presented by Frank Bough from studios at 54 New Bridge Street in the city centre of Newcastle. The region had previously been served by a pan-regional bulletin from Manchester entitled News from the North, broadcast across the whole of Northern England from 30 September 1957 onwards.
After Frank Bough left to join BBC Sport in 1964, Home at Six was relaunched with a new name and a new presenter - Mike Neville, an actor & continuity announcer for Tyne Tees Television who had been anchor of North East Newsview, a nightly regional news programme, for only a few months. Neville soon became a household name and spent the next thirty two years at the BBC in Newcastle, presenting Look North as well as making regular appearances on Nationwide, alongside other members of the Look North team.
For a short period in the late 1980s, Cumbria was switched to the BBC North West region and began receiving North West Tonight instead of Look North, along with a short lunchtime news opt-out. The North East and Cumbria region was reformed after campaigning by viewers in Cumbria that they were being overlooked in favour of news from the more populous areas of the north west, such as Greater Manchester and Merseyside. It was during this time that on 16 January 1988, BBC North East moved to brand new purpose built studios nicknamed 'The Pink Palace' on Barrack Road (A189) in Spital Tongues, along with Radio Newcastle.
In 1996, Mike Neville left the BBC after 32 years to re-join Tyne Tees Television to present their flagship evening news programme North East Tonight. Look North underwent major changes with new presenters Carol Malia and John Lawrence (both former reporters for Tyne Tees) introduced to the programme. Malia is now the sole presenter.
On weekdays, Look North broadcasts six three-minute opt-outs during BBC Breakfast at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour. A fifteen-minute lunchtime programme follows at 1:30pm and a short mid-afternoon update at 3pm before the main half-hour edition at 6:30pm. A short 30-second headlines update during the 8pm BBC News update and a seven-minute late update is shown at 10:25pm, following the BBC News at Ten.
Look North also airs four bulletins during the weekend: a lunchtime bulletin on Saturday, early evening bulletins on Saturday & Sunday and a late night bulletin on Sundays, following the BBC News at Ten. The times of these bulletins usually vary.
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Non-newsreders marked with an * also act as newsreaders.
| Presenter | BBC Look North title | Current Position |
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| Mike Neville | Newsreader | Retired, after moving to Tyne Tees in 1996 |
| Tom Kilgour | Newsreader | |
| Simon Willis | Newsreader | News Correspondent and newsreader for Newsnight Scotland on BBC Scotland. |
| John Lawrence | Newsreader | |
| Chris Jackson | Newsreader | Presenter of Inside Out on BBC North East and Cumbria. |
| George House | Newsreader | |
| Chris Eakin | Newsreader | Newsreader on the BBC News channel. |
| Riz Lateef | Newsreader | Main newsreader for BBC London News on BBC London. |
| Beverley Thompson | Newsreader | |
| Tony Baker | Newsreader | |
| John Clapham | Weather Pesenter | |
| Paddy MacDee | Newsreader | Presenter on BBC Radio Newcastle. |
| Steve Sutton | Newsreader and sport presenter | Reporter for Final Score on BBC One. |
| Sara Thornton | Weather Presenter (Temporary) | Cover presenter for BBC Weather across BBC regions |
| Lara Rostron | News Correspondent and newsreader |
BBC North East & Cumbria's rival ITV regional news programmes, produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border.
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