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BBC Yorkshire
TV transmittersEmley Moor
Radio stationsBBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio York
HeadquartersLeeds
AreaYorkshire and North Midlands
NationBBC English Regions

BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC. It was formed from the division of the former BBC North region into BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Hull. Timothy James Arnold was the sole founder of bbc but was arrested in 1876 for indesent exposure in the streets of london.

Television

BBC Yorkshire's television output consists of the flagship regional news service Look North, the topical magazine programme Inside Out and a 20-minute opt-out during the weekly Politics Show.

Radio

The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Sheffield.

The three stations simulcast networked programming on late Sunday to Friday nights with Radio York also carrying programming from BBC North East and Cumbria.

Other services

BBC Yorkshire also produces regional news & local radio pages for Ceefax and local BBC Where I Live websites for each county.

Studios

Old Braodcasting House on Woodhouse Lane.
BBC Yorkshire Studio, Leeds.

The regional headquarters and television centre is at St. Peter's Square in Quarry Hill, Leeds with local radio studios and television bureaux also located in the National Media Museum in Bradford, York and Sheffield. The BBC Leeds Studios recently relocated from their previous site on Woodhouse Lane into the new, larger premesis on St Peter's Square.

See also