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{{Short description|Region of the British Broadcasting Corporation}}
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{{Use British English|date=February 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox
| name = BBC North West
| image = [[File:BBC Logo 2021.svg|200px]]<br><br>[[File:BBC UK Regions (North West highlighted).svg|200px]]<br>BBC North West's area within the UK
| headquarters = [[MediaCityUK|MediaCity]], [[Salford Quays]], [[Greater Manchester]]
| area = [[Cheshire]]<br>[[Greater Manchester]]<br>[[Lancashire]]<br>[[Merseyside]]<br>[[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]])<br>[[
([[Biddulph]])<br>[[Cumbria]] ([[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[South Lakeland]])<br>[[Isle of Man]] | nation = [[BBC English Regions]]
| regions = [[North West England|North West]] and [[Isle of Man]]
| tvstations =
| tvtransmitters = [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]] and all relays.
| radiostations = [[BBC Radio Lancashire]]<br>[[BBC Radio Manchester]]<br>[[BBC Radio Merseyside]]<br>[[BBC Radio Cumbria]] (South)<br>[[BBC Radio Stoke]] (South Cheshire)
| radiotransmitters =
| keypeople = '''Aziz Rashid'''<br>(Head of Regional<br>& Local Programmes)
| launched = 15 November 1922 (radio) <br /> September 1957 (television)
| closeddate =
| replaced =
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{{BBC sidebar}}
'''BBC North West''' is the [[BBC English Regions|BBC English Region]] serving [[Cheshire]], [[Greater Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], [[Merseyside]], as well as parts of [[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]]), [[
The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s, complete with an opt-out television news service for the area, before it was transferred to the BBC North East region owing to high viewer demand. Today, the region is part of the larger [[BBC North|BBC North division]] based at [[MediaCityUK]] in [[Salford Quays]].
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===Television===
''BBC North West'' produces regional TV news, used to
Non-news output used to consist of the current affairs programme ''[[Inside Out (2002 TV programme)|Inside Out North West]]'' but the programme and current affairs output was abandoned. It still makes a political opt-out. The rugby league highlights programme ''[[Super League Show|The Super League Show]]'', produced by PDI Media at [[BBC Yorkshire|BBC Yorkshire's]] studio in Leeds, is also simulcast to north west viewers.
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===Radio===
Regional broadcasting in the North West
At this point, the Manchester operation covered the entire North of England and northern parts of the Midlands, with relay stations in Leeds (2LS), Hull (6KH), Nottingham (5NG) and Stoke-on-Trent (6ST) carrying 2ZY output. Early broadcasts were made from studios at the [[Metropolitan-Vickers]] electricity works in Old Trafford.
When the [[BBC National Programme]] commenced from London, output from Manchester was moved to the [[BBC Regional Programme]], and in 1929 When regional radio services resumed after the Second World War, Manchester-based output was broadcast on a Northern version of the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]], which would continue to serve Northern Ireland until January 1963. [[BBC Local Radio]] was introduced to the North West on 22 November 1967 with the launch of [[BBC Radio Merseyside|Radio Merseyside]] in Liverpool, followed on 10 September 1970 by [[BBC Radio Manchester|Radio Manchester]] and on 26 January 1971 by [[BBC Radio Blackburn|Radio Blackburn]] (later relaunched as BBC Radio Lancashire).
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The expansion of local radio services led to a gradual reduction of regional radio programmes (covering both the North West and Yorkshire areas from the Holme Moss transmitter) on what had now become [[BBC Radio 4]]. The last regional programme to be aired on Radio 4 North was an early-evening news opt-out on Friday 12 September 1980. Regional output for the North West would later resurface on the BBC's local radio stations in the evening and late night time slots.
The BBC has never produced radio services for the [[Isle of Man]] although national BBC radio is available.
===Television===
When the BBC launched daily regional television news in September 1957, the whole of northern England was initially covered as one region from Manchester. Short bulletins called ''News from the North'' began broadcasting on 30 September to what are now the North West, [[BBC Yorkshire|Yorkshire & North Midlands]], [[BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire|East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire]] and [[BBC North East and Cumbria|North East & Cumbria]] areas.
Two years later, the opt-outs were refocused to cover the North West, including the Yorkshire & Lincolnshire areas, as the North East and Cumbria were now receiving their own news bulletins. By 1962, the bulletins had been expanded into a 20-minute magazine programme and renamed ''North at Six'', and later, ''Look North''.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
The current North West region was introduced on 25 March 1968 when a separate Leeds-based edition of ''[[Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)|Look North]]'' for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands was launched.
Between 5 April 1976 and 12 September 1980, BBC North West made use of regional presentation and continuity announcers during weekday evening programmes on BBC1. Also in 1980, the Manchester edition of ''Look North'' was renamed ''Look North West'' in an attempt to avoid confusion for neighbouring viewers in Yorkshire. Regional television news remained at On 3 September 1984, the programme changed to its current title of ''[[North West Tonight]]''. Between 1986 and 1989, the region also covered parts of Cumbria that were previously served by the Newcastle edition of ''Look North'' and provided a news opt-out for the area served by the Caldbeck transmitter at lunchtime. However, viewers' complaints led to Cumbrian news coverage being switched back to ''Look North'' After 30 years of operation from New Broadcasting House, BBC North West television began broadcasting from MediaCityUK at Salford Quays on the morning of Monday 28 November 2011.
==Studios==
[[Image:Dickenson.jpg|thumb|right|Dickenson Road, the first BBC television studio in Manchester, pictured in the 1960s.]]▼
{{See also|New Broadcasting House (Manchester)|MediaCityUK}}
From 1929 until 1981, many of the BBC's Manchester operations were based at Broadcasting House in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester City Centre. The building had been leased to the Corporation from a bank on the ground floor and became the central control room for regional and network radio production from the city.▼
▲[[Image:Dickenson Road Studios.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dickenson Road Studios]], the first BBC television studio in Manchester, pictured in the 1960s.]]
[[File:BBC Piccadilly Studios - geograph-2182393-by-David-Dixon.jpg|thumb|BBC Broadcasting House in Piccadilly Gardens]]
[[File:New Broadcasting House - geograph.org.uk - 1962690.jpg|thumb|New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road]]
[[File:BBC-Media-City.jpg|thumb|BBC Quay House at [[MediaCityUK]] in Salford Quays]]
From 1929 until 1981, many of the BBC's Manchester operations were based at Broadcasting House in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester City Centre.
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By 1967, planning had begun on creating a new broadcasting centre which would house radio and television on both network & regional levels as well as rehearsal space (Studio 7) for the BBC's Northern Symphony Orchestra (later to become the [[BBC Philharmonic]]). [[New Broadcasting House (Manchester)|New Broadcasting House]] on Oxford Road began operations in July 1975 when network television production was transferred from the Dickenson Road studio into the much larger Studio A. Studio B, which would be used for regional TV news (''Look North West'', ''North West Tonight'') was opened in May 1981, allowing the BBC to vacate its studios at Piccadilly after 52 years.▼
In 1954, a former Methodist church on Dickenson Road in [[Rusholme]] became the BBC's first Manchester television studio, [[Dickenson Road Studios]]. It was brought from [[Mancunian Films]], who had converted the church building in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Jeffrey |title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army |date=15 September 1997 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4743-5 |page=267 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&pg=PA267 |access-date=28 May 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
The Dickenson Road facilities became the main home of the city's network production base, providing facilities for television drama. It was here that the early editions of the long-running programme ''[[Top Of The Pops]]'' were produced.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Humphries |first1=Patrick |title=Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary |date=28 November 2013 |publisher=McNidder and Grace Limited |isbn=978-0-85716-063-8 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMscAwAAQBAJ&dq=top%20of%20the%20pops&pg=PT23 |access-date=28 May 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bignell |first1=J. |last2=Lacey |first2=S. |title=British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future |date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-32758-1 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHWEAwAAQBAJ&dq=dickenson+Road+studios&pg=PA108 |access-date=28 May 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The BBC's northern outside broadcast units were located at another former church nearby, on the corner of Birch Lane and Plymouth Grove in [[Longsight]].<ref name="g7uk">{{cite web |title=The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) |url=https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |website=g7uk |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226040040/https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2021 |date=24 September 2012}}</ref>
Meanwhile, regional television news and presentation began in September 1957, firstly from the crypt at Dickenson Road, before moving two years later to Broadcasting House in [[Piccadilly Gardens]].
By 1967, planning had begun on creating a new broadcasting centre which would house radio and television on both network & regional levels as well as rehearsal space (studio 7) for the BBC's Northern Symphony Orchestra (later to become the [[BBC Philharmonic]]).
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Regular production in Studio A continued until 2000, when it was mothballed. Meanwhile, the BBC launched a joint facilities venture with [[ITV Granada]], called [[3SixtyMedia]], which saw both broadcasters pool their studio resources at both Oxford Road and [[The Manchester Studios|Granada's Quay Street complex]]. As a result, Studio A was re-opened in 2005 as a four-waller, primarily for drama productions including ''[[Life on Mars (UK TV series)|Life on Mars]]''.
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In addition to their headquarters, BBC North West has [[BBC Local Radio|local radio]] stations and news bureaux located in [[Liverpool]] and [[Blackburn]] and a district office in [[Chester]].
==See also==
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