[Manclad83]

What is strange is that, whilst it was the East Opt, there were stories and scorelines from right across the region. For example, the Ramblers story on Thurlstone Moor near Penistone isn’t too from the border with Granadaland.

[London Lite]

From what I can see Christa and Nick presented the pan-regional segments with John Squires with the sub-regional segment.

[Steve in Pudsey]

John certainly introduced stories that Nick teased into the break.

The East programme looked to be opting out of a dirty feed, if you look at how they come back from the break it doesn't look like whatever gallery is producing the East programme has a clean feed of the VT.

I'm not sure sure what purpose going back to Christa and Nick to go into the break was as they wouldn't be seen again. That just seems to complicate the timings of both editions unnecessarily.

[Steve in Pudsey]

Going back the question of where the opt outs came from, here's Alan Hardwick launching Calendar South from the new Sheffield studio

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Calendar South – New Region Feature | TVARK
Here we have an excerpt informing viewers of the new service for viewers in the …
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[Andrew]

Going back the question of where the opt outs came from, here's Alan Hardwick launching Calendar South from the new Sheffield studio

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Alan promoting the new service followed by Richard immediately downplaying it ‘don’t worry, it’ll only be a small part of the programme, you’ll still see me and Christa’

I wonder how many people in Sheffield did contact ‘their dealer’

[lookoutwales]

They were certainly throwing money at Calendar in the run up to the franchise auction.

The 'news centre' had opened a couple of months before (though the main programme didn't move in until a couple of years later) - check out how many ENG cameras they send to a Neil Kinnock press call just for the sake of it.

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Anglia and Central were similarly in big-spending mode around this time, splitting off and tooling up their news services.

Though I was surprised to hear from Wesley Smith that Central South was only a part-time operation at launch (the main programme and the late bulletin) before daytime and weekend bulletins began the following year.

[JACKLUFC1998]

I read somewhere (I think on Digital Spy?), that before Calendar South started, viewers in the Sheffield and Chesterfield areas knew which version of Calendar they would be getting (either before or at the start of the programme I think?) by either a letter B (for Belmont) or a letter E (for Emley) appear in the corner of the screen?

[Steve in Pudsey]

It was a letter S - literally explained in the video I posted.

[agemame]

And the first time they did it, ISTR they actually messed up the signal, so the S didn't appear for people getting programming from Crosspool, which remains the main Sheffield relay.

For a time they had a general purpose and contribution studio within the Meadowhall shopping centre for this and others. It's not there any more having been subsumed into an arcade and restaurant, but its most significant contribution was to host the pilot of the Mrs Merton show, back when they hadn't decided on how her surname was spelled: youtu.be 

[Steve in Pudsey]

They (I think the IBA in this case) "forgot" to provide Crosspool with a NICAM feed, to much embarrassment.