18-08-2023, 10:48 PM
It is an interesting story about regional news for London and the South East - at the BBC, the region was treated poorly, as they felt any big news story in London would feature on the national news, so why bother with a proper regional news service, it would simply be duplication.
However when regional news was extended in length by the early 60s, it became obvious there would be a big hole in their weeknight schedule in the region so TOWN AND AROUND was created as a sort of light magazine type show for the region.
ITV were really bad in the early years, with regional news totally ignored by Rediffusion until their relaunch in 1964 when they created THREE AFTER SIX which was in a way a similar format to TOWN AND AROUND, more lighter magazine style show.
However when regional news was extended in length by the early 60s, it became obvious there would be a big hole in their weeknight schedule in the region so TOWN AND AROUND was created as a sort of light magazine type show for the region.
ITV were really bad in the early years, with regional news totally ignored by Rediffusion until their relaunch in 1964 when they created THREE AFTER SIX which was in a way a similar format to TOWN AND AROUND, more lighter magazine style show.