BBC North East and Cumbria
 .svg) BBC North East and Cumbria's area within the UK |
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| TV transmitters |
Bilsdale Caldbeck Chatton Pontop Pike |
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| Radio stations |
BBC Radio Cumbria BBC Newcastle BBC Tees |
| Headquarters | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Area |
County Durham Northumberland Teesside Tyne and Wear northern Cumbria North Yorkshire (part) |
| Nation | BBC English Regions |
| Regions |
North East Cumbria |
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Key people
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Phil Roberts (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
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Official website
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BBC Tyne BBC Look North East and Cumbria |
BBC North East and Cumbria is the BBC English Region covering County Durham, Northumberland, Teesside, Tyne and Wear, northern Cumbria and parts of North Yorkshire.
BBC North East & Cumbria's television output, broadcast on BBC One, consists of the flagship regional news service Look North, the topical magazine programme Inside Out, a twenty-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics and the football magazine show Late Kick Off, co-produced with independent production company Bite Yer Legs Ltd. The rugby league highlights programme The Super League Show, produced by PDI Media at BBC Yorkshire's studio in Leeds, is also simulcast for North East and Cumbrian viewers.
The region is the controlling centre for the local radio stations BBC Tees, BBC Radio Cumbria and BBC Radio Newcastle. The three stations simulcast some programmes, as well as the overnight programmes offered by BBC Radio 5 Live.
BBC North East & Cumbria also produces regional news and local radio pages for BBC Red Button and BBC Local News websites for each county.
BBC North East & Cumbria began television broadcasting in 1959, following the separation of the region from the Manchester based BBC North. Up until that point, the Manchester-based operation had been serving the entire North of England with nightly news bulletins. The new service from Newcastle introduced localised bulletins, read originally by George House and Tom Kilgour. By 1962, the bulletins became a 20-minute magazine programme called Home at Six, presented by Frank Bough.
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