BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria)
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| Presented by | Carol Malia |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC North East and Cumbria |
| Location(s) | Broadcasting Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 6.30pm programme) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One North East and Cumbria |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9) |
| Original release | 1959 – present |
BBC Look North is the BBC's regional television news service for North East England, Cumbria and North Yorkshire. The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre on Barrack Road in Newcastle upon Tyne with district newsrooms based in Carlisle, Durham, Middlesbrough and York.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) from Astra 2E on Freesat channel 956 and Sky channel 955. It no longer broadcasts on analogue, since the digital switchover in September 2012, and digital terrestrial from the Bilsdale, Caldbeck, Chatton and the Pontop Pike transmitters. The latest edition of Look North is also available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.
Prior to the start of Look North, the BBC television region for the North East and Cumbria launched in 1959 from studios at 54 New Bridge Street in Newcastle City Centre. The region began receiving its own nightly news bulletins, originally presented by George House and Tom Kilgour. Previously, the area was served by a pan-regional bulletin from Manchester entitled News from the North, broadcast across the whole of Northern England from 30 September 1957 onwards.
Three years after the launch of the television service, the bulletins were expanded to 20 minutes and relaunched as a daily magazine programme, Home at Six, presented by Frank Bough. After Bough left to join BBC Sport in 1964, Home at Six was relaunched with a new name and a new presenter - Mike Neville, an actor & continuity announcer for Tyne Tees Television who had been anchor of North East Newsview, a nightly regional news programme, for only a few months. Neville soon became a household name and spent the next thirty two years at the BBC in Newcastle, presenting Look North as well as making regular appearances on Nationwide.
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