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HD produced, but still not aired as such on Freeview because of all the macroregion issues. Come to think of it, it's a very large population region to not have had native HD terrestrial local news, isn't it?

Point taken - though granted on the whole, ITV managed to move much faster into HD production.

18 years to the week since the launch of the original BBC HD channel. If they’d taken as long to switch to colour, Look North would still have been black and white in the mid 80s.

Did make me wonder what was the last BBC region to convert to colour.

IIRC, the fairly large TV studio at Woodhouse Lane was specially built for colour - and likewise happened in Plymouth, though an industrial dispute meant Spotlight remained in B/W until August 1974.