TV listings today in the Times

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:25:02 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:

My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in Yorkshire.

You are now governed from Edinburgh. Congratulations!


Even taking salt in his porridge now!

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Owain" wrote in message
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On 17 Sep, 21:25, "Bill Wright" wrote:
My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in
Yorkshire.

That's not that unusual. I can imagine how disappointed you must have
been, looking forward to some aerial photography of a municipal
rubbish tip masquerading as a natural history programme on STV only to
find a popular police drama was actually broadcast.

Was the rest of the paper the 'Scottish' edition (the small news
columns on p3-5 are usually a giveaway) or did somebody do an
almightily bad copy-and-paste job somewhere?

No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

Peter Crosland

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"Owain" wrote in message
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On 17 Sep, 21:25, "Bill Wright" wrote:
My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in
Yorkshire.

That's not that unusual. I can imagine how disappointed you must have
been, looking forward to some aerial photography of a municipal rubbish
tip masquerading as a natural history programme on STV only to find a
popular police drama was actually broadcast.

Was the rest of the paper the 'Scottish' edition (the small news
columns on p3-5 are usually a giveaway) or did somebody do an
almightily bad copy-and-paste job somewhere?

No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.

Many years ago, I asked a colleague (a Yorkshireman) what daily paper he
read. "I always buy the local paper, so in London I buy The Times."

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Ah, well someone took the wrong bundle or put it on the wrong van.

Brian

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in Yorkshire.

Bill

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:11:06 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Ah, well someone took the wrong bundle or put it on the wrong van.

Or for some reason, somebody punched in the wrong number (as in, too
many zeroes) of Scottish versions to be printed (presumably they get
printed first) and so to avoid waste, just distributed all of those
until the supply was exhausted, and then the other editions further
south.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:18:46 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:11:06 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Ah, well someone took the wrong bundle or put it on the wrong van.

Or for some reason, somebody punched in the wrong number (as in, too
many zeroes) of Scottish versions to be printed (presumably they get
printed first) and so to avoid waste, just distributed all of those
until the supply was exhausted, and then the other editions further
south.

It could well have been something like that. The Times is printed in
various places in Britain and Ireland: Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire;
Prescot, Merseyside; Motherwell, Scotland; Belfast; and Kells and
Limerick in the Irish Republic (also in Belgium, France, Dubai and the
USA).

It looks as though The Times for Yorkshire is printed in Scotland. This
would avoid the offence that might be caused by having it printed on
"The Wrong Side of The Pennines".

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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:20:44 -0700 (PDT), Owain
wrote:

On 18 Sep, 10:11, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Ah, well someone took the wrong bundle or put it on the wrong van.

Not if the Scottish listings were printed in the London version of the
paper.

If it was the wrong bundle then Bill would have had the Scottish
edition.

The TV and radio listings are in the "Times 2" pull-out section which
contains features rather than news. This is almost certainly printed
separately from and earlier than the main paper - possibly days earlier.

The "final assembly" of some papers is done by the wholesalers. They put
together the news sections with supplements and glossy magazine sections
before distributing them to the retailers. This might happen with The
Times main paper and Times 2.

I've just remembered that some years ago The Times 2 section was missing
from my copy of The Times one day. The person at the newsagent's
apologised and explained that the wholesaler hadn't received copies of
that section.

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Peter Duncanson
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

It would be
Very little home counties damage in Yorkshire H bomb incident.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

It would be
Very little home counties damage in Yorkshire H bomb incident.


In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's

"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

I just plagiarised it.

Peter Crosland

Peter Crosland wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Owain" wrote in message
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On 17 Sep, 21:25, "Bill Wright" wrote:
My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in
Yorkshire.
That's not that unusual. I can imagine how disappointed you must have
been, looking forward to some aerial photography of a municipal
rubbish tip masquerading as a natural history programme on STV only to
find a popular police drama was actually broadcast.

Was the rest of the paper the 'Scottish' edition (the small news
columns on p3-5 are usually a giveaway) or did somebody do an
almightily bad copy-and-paste job somewhere?
No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

Peter Crosland



In the NE of Scotland, our local newspaper has an almost universal
circulation. It is also somewhat parochial. Many headlines begin
with "NE man..."

It is humerously rumored that the headline on the 16th April 1912 went
along the lines of:

"NE Man killed in boating accident"

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Ron