[Spencer]

Yes, again YTV is not a problem for me per se, it's just that due to transmitter issues, naming it Yorkshire is "strange", or it's be particularly strange for Lincolnshire and even North Norfolk!
Had it covered Yorkshire alone, I would have had no issue with it.

I realize, at the same time, Yorkshire is the biggest country in the UK (the English Texas, somehow) with a strong identity.

The name made more sense when YTV launched, as they broadcast from the Bilsdale transmitter, giving fuller coverage of North Yorkshire, and weren’t on Belmont, so didn’t cover Lincolnshire or North Norfolk. So back then the coverage area had fewer bits outside Yorkshire. There was a bit of County Durham in there, and they didn’t get into most of East Yorkshire, but the name would have been more logical when they chose it.

It wasn’t until 1974 when Bilsdale was reallocated to Tyne Tees, and Yorkshire took over Belmont from Anglia that we ended up with the current situation.

I do think a full rebrand to just ‘YTV’ would have been a good idea at the time, as it might have been less alienating for those well outside Yorkshire.