11-02-2023, 11:47 AM
(11-02-2023, 04:44 AM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Lincoln used to be on Bailgate but moved to the Spark house facility at the university in 2006 and may still be there, the website lists ITV as a tenant.There was another BBC Bradford office before the one at the Media Museum. It was based in City Hall, and had a Radio Leeds studio in it.
Hull was in the shopping centre, Sheffield was next to the big roundabout in the city centre. York was on that road that cuts through the pedestrianised bit. Surely Bradford is too close to Leeds to need one? The BBC only had one because of the museum 'living exhibit'.
In the mid/late 90s, the breakfast show was co-hosted with one presenter in Bradford and the other in Leeds. It was also used for some of the station’s Asian programming, and later for some Asian Network programmes.
There were other smaller district offices in Wakefield, Halifax and Huddersfield IIRC, as was typical in BBC LR at the time. These tended to be small affairs, usually in council buildings with not much more than a desk and a small contribution studio. They allowed the designated district reporters to file stories back quicker in theory. Although Wakefield only being a 20 minute drive from Leeds always seemed a bit pointless.