Saturday evening regional news and sports programmes in the 80s and 90s

[cityprod]

TSW had Newsport...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuZnAaW49M

Whilst BBC1 South West during the 80s had Spotlight Sport & News, presented mostly by Dick Woodacre.  By the 1992 rebrand this had changed to Spotlight News & Sport, and was usually handled by the duty weekend newscaster.

Westcountry would have an edition of Westcountry Weekend Latest, later Westcountry News, come from the main studio rather than the bulletin studio.  The duty weekend newscaster, ususally someone from the local studios, would handle the news part and Mark Tyler would handle the sport, the segment being called Scoreboard.  That arrangement would last until about 2002.  Occasionally Martin Dean or someone else would sub for Mark.

[Steve in Pudsey]

I think the example you're looking for was on TV Ark. The legendary Brian Baines introduces Look North Saturday over the COW, presented by Michael Cook(e), who hands to Brian in vision for the news before presenting the sport round up.

Unusually for a short bulletin it doesn't seem to be self-op.

Seem to recall it using clichéd cheesy library music rather than the regular Look North/Sixty Minutes theme

As has been mentioned, John Boyd from Radio Leeds presented it for a while, alongside Radio Sheffield's Dean Peppall.

Peter Levy used to get a lot of ribbing for being a workaholic but Boydy was perhaps unique as a sports journalist who didn't (otherwise) work on Saturdays - he did breakfast radio bulletins (into York, Humberside and Sheffield as well as Leeds) and Sunday afternoon Rugby League coverage as well as Tuesday and Wednesday evenings often networked within Yorkshire, although by the time he was doing Look North he may have moved to the Radio Leeds mid Morning show and dropped most of his sport commitments apart from the Sunday RL show.

[addlestones]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aidGjkEzrU 

A Westcountry News and Sport Saturday dual presented edition from 2003

[Inspector Sands]

Westcountry would have an edition of Westcountry Weekend Latest, later Westcountry News, come from the main studio rather than the bulletin studio.  The duty weekend newscaster, ususally someone from the local studios, would handle the news part and Mark Tyler would handle the sport, the segment being called Scoreboard.  That arrangement would last until about 2002.  Occasionally Martin Dean or someone else would sub for Mark.

Westcountry had an odd approach to news titles when they launched - every bulletin had a different name - Westcountry Latest, Westcountry Live, Westcountry Update, Westcountry Weekend....

[cityprod]

Westcountry would have an edition of Westcountry Weekend Latest, later Westcountry News, come from the main studio rather than the bulletin studio.  The duty weekend newscaster, ususally someone from the local studios, would handle the news part and Mark Tyler would handle the sport, the segment being called Scoreboard.  That arrangement would last until about 2002.  Occasionally Martin Dean or someone else would sub for Mark.

Westcountry had an odd approach to news titles when they launched - every bulletin had a different name - Westcountry Latest, Westcountry Live, Westcountry Update, Westcountry Weekend....

Westcountry's approach stood out because for the first time, they seperately branded their weekend output.  Westcountry Latest was the regular bulletins from the bulletin studio, whilst Westcountry Live was the hour long programme.  All Saturday and Sunday bulletins were branded Westcountry Weekend Latest.  After a few months, Westcountry News was introduced as an overarching brand for all news programmes, including Westcountry Live.  Just about a year later, they dropped the names Westcountry Latest and Westcountry Weekend Latest and all the bulletins just became Westcountry News.

That approach continued in 1999, when Westcountry Live was cut down to 30 minutes because of the new ITV Evening News.  A new 30 minute lunchtime programme, Westcountry Lunchtime Live, was introduced then, and what had previously been the Friday what's on slot on Westcountry Live was spun off into its own programme Westcountry Weekend, usually airing at 5.30pm on a Friday.

Westcountry Update was basically Westcountry's version of TSW's South West Week.  Always thought that was a strange name of a review of the week show, but it kept that name all the way til it ended.

[Markymark]

I don't recall Southern ever having a Saturday teatime local bulletins, it was normally a cartoon straight after the ITN news. In fact I don't recall any local news at the weekend during Southern's tenure.

On weekdays the lunchime and 22:30 bulletin was presented by the duty CA. That all changed with TVS. They had one of the news presenters or reporters reading the news, and at that point a Saturday teatime bulletin was introduced. It always seemed to be read by Peter Clark. I can’t remember whether there was any sports news, possibly nothing much beyond a caption with local football club match results?

For a couple of weeks in January 1982, TVS had NewsBrief I think it was called at 09:30 Saturday mornings. Included weekend travel news. That was soon ditched!

[Pompeytv]

For a couple of weeks in January 1982, TVS had NewsBrief I think it was called at 09:30 Saturday mornings. Included weekend travel news. That was soon ditched!

It was called 'Saturday Brief' and usually presented by Chris Peacock or John Doyle, as I recall

[Markymark]

For a couple of weeks in January 1982, TVS had NewsBrief I think it was called at 09:30 Saturday mornings. Included weekend travel news. That was soon ditched!

It was called 'Saturday Brief' and usually presented by Chris Peacock or John Doyle, as I recall

I think John Doyle had arrived from Westward TV?

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Those ITV continuity studios were busy places

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e7c2a

[Inspector Sands]

For a couple of weeks in January 1982, TVS had NewsBrief I think it was called at 09:30 Saturday mornings. Included weekend travel news. That was soon ditched!

It was called 'Saturday Brief' and usually presented by Chris Peacock or John Doyle, as I recall

There was a clip of the first Saturday Brief with Chris(topher) Peacock on YouTube at one point, can't find it now of course...

[Jamesypoo]

The Leeds edition of Look North on Saturdays continued to be branded "Look North News and Sport" for quite a while, presumably a legacy of the old "Look North Saturday" programme?



Image from TV Live

[deejay]

Even in the early 2000s the Saturday tea time bulletin was often one of the hairiest to direct. Match reports were still delivered via ISDN lines from football grounds, some were filed moments before you went to air, others were taken live. I recall there being one main news story and maybe one or two short items (OOVs - out of vision reads) and then the rest all sports results. Most were accompanied by graphics, either tables or result slides, some were still photos, some had composite results with a photo of the reporter filing the ISDN. If you were feeling adventurous you would change sports by coming back to the studio and put a different generic image behind the presenter (a football, a rugby goal, cricket stumps etc). The region I worked in had no graphics staff, so it was templated astons, generic stills and best endeavours all round.

However it being only 5 minutes and 5 seconds long, it could quickly go VERY wrong and I remember getting the stacks badly out of sequence one afternoon and had cricket balls behind the presenter while intro-ing a football result and so on. Oh and you didn’t have a PA either and vision mixed the whole thing yourself.

Good times :-)

[Robertclark125]

Back in the 80s and 90s, especially for the BBC regions was five minutes long enough for the Saturday teatime bulletin? Could ten minutes have been better?

[G Honeybun]

Even in the early 2000s the Saturday tea time bulletin was often one of the hairiest to direct.  Match reports were still delivered via ISDN lines from football grounds, some were filed moments before you went to air, others were taken live.  I recall there being one main news story and maybe one or two short items (OOVs - out of vision reads) and then the rest all sports results.  Most were accompanied by graphics, either tables or result slides, some were still photos, some had composite results with a photo of the reporter filing the ISDN.  If you were feeling adventurous you would change sports by coming back to the studio and put a different generic image behind the presenter (a football, a rugby goal, cricket stumps etc).  The region I worked in had no graphics staff, so it was templated astons, generic stills and best endeavours all round.

However it being only 5 minutes and 5 seconds long, it could quickly go VERY wrong and I remember getting the stacks badly out of sequence one afternoon and had cricket balls behind the presenter while intro-ing a football result and so on.  Oh and you didn’t have a PA either and vision mixed the whole thing yourself.

Good times :-)

Yes and often no time to rehearse as the results would be coming in around 5pm, scripts were being completely rewritten and you were on-air about 5.10pm. Here's a great example of an ITV regional bulletin from 2003 when everything seemed to go wrong (from about 2mins in) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmRlFgQ...evisionTim

[excel99]

I think the example you're looking for was on TV Ark. The legendary Brian Baines introduces Look North Saturday over the COW, presented by Michael Cook(e), who hands to Brian in vision for the news before presenting the sport round up.

That was the one, thanks

[Andrew]

Even in the early 2000s the Saturday tea time bulletin was often one of the hairiest to direct.  Match reports were still delivered via ISDN lines from football grounds, some were filed moments before you went to air, others were taken live.  I recall there being one main news story and maybe one or two short items (OOVs - out of vision reads) and then the rest all sports results.  Most were accompanied by graphics, either tables or result slides, some were still photos, some had composite results with a photo of the reporter filing the ISDN.  If you were feeling adventurous you would change sports by coming back to the studio and put a different generic image behind the presenter (a football, a rugby goal, cricket stumps etc).  The region I worked in had no graphics staff, so it was templated astons, generic stills and best endeavours all round.

However it being only 5 minutes and 5 seconds long, it could quickly go VERY wrong and I remember getting the stacks badly out of sequence one afternoon and had cricket balls behind the presenter while intro-ing a football result and so on.  Oh and you didn’t have a PA either and vision mixed the whole thing yourself.

Good times :-)

I presume this is why on Look North they don’t even give out the football results any more, they just direct viewers to the BBC Sport website. Which is a tad odd as surely the news and weather is on the BBC website as well.

Rather than the Saturday bulletin being up to the minute news and sport results, it mostly consists of diary stories and a couple of reads over library pictures.