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Something that was so incredibly frustrating when growing up- that nearly all our local news was covered by EMT and Central, despite the fact virtually nobody who lives here can get them terrestrially. It was only when cable came that people were finally able to get it (and then satellite later on) though of course that still relied on people actually subscribing to cable. I remember us being virtually the only people who were able to see an EMT report on our school in 1999 because we had cable and most others didn't. I also remember a collective sigh from pretty much everyone being at an event in the town centre in the mid-90s (before cable came to the area) and it was announced we could see it later on EMT, which most people wouldn't be able to see.

Why it seems that neither the BBC, Central or Yorkshire ever seemed to pick up what region we actually recieved and actually put our local news in the proper place, I don't know, I'm sure they must have heard from frustrated viewers regularly. Though the fact it's still not entirely clean cut and some here people get Emley and some get Belmont would have confused things even if Calendar did cover this area (less so with the BBC as that split didn't happen until 2001), would they put it on the Leeds or East versions?

In some of the higher up parts of town you could get Waltham with a high gain aerial and a booster, but where we live, we've never been able to get a snifter of it.

Maybe in the VHF days were were able to get the Midlands regions, and the newsgathering stuck with us being placed there even after the switch to UHF where we couldn't, but I'm too young to have any experience of that.

I can vaguely remember seeing both Look North (Leeds) and East Midlands Today (not sure if Look North (Hull) also took part) do a joint programme from Mansfield back in 2008, to celebrate Rebecca Adlington's homecoming after her success at the Olympics that year.