Channel 4 to create “national HQ” outside London

[Deleted member 5265]

Are any NE cities bidding for this? It would be good for the region.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/channel-4-open-new-national-14386314

 

[HABA87]

Deluded Geordies bidding IIRC.

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Deluded Geordies bidding IIRC.

Would love to see a Durham-Sunderland bid.

 

[monkeytassle]

Would love to see a Durham-Sunderland bid.

Transport links are too shit.

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Transport links are too shit.

National transport links to Durham are excellent. Good train, two airports within 30 mins, A1M. Sunderland to Durham needs a new rapid transit link as I have repeatedly advocated on here.

 

[HABA87]

Deluded Geordies

NewcastleGateshead (urgh, I don't like that name) is a fairly obvious choice for a North East bid.

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Deluded Geordies

NewcastleGateshead (urgh, I don't like that name) is a fairly obvious choice for a North East bid.

Ta for info. Didn’t see thread when I searched.

 

[HABA87]

Ta for info. Didn’t see thread when I searched.

It's not an obvious or particularly relevant thread title to be fair!

 

[BlackOps]

Would be great for something like this for durham sunderland. Agree that needs to be something direct from durham to sunderland. Even somewhere like darlington would be good for the region. Full of mags there like but would still attract people here

 

[Nipple Salad]

Transport links are too shit.

This

Salford and Birmingham are the Beeb's main outposts and both are central with easy access to all major transport links.

Durham, Sunlun and Poocastle won't be in the running imo

 

[Deleted member 5265]

This

Salford and Birmingham are the Beeb's main outposts and both are central with easy road access.

Durham, Sunlun and Poocastle won't be in the running imo

Not true. The whole of BBC Sport is in Manchester, about the same journey time from London as Durham.

 

[Nipple Salad]

Not true. The whole of BBC Sport is in Manchester, about the same journey time from London as Durham.

Salford.

Anywhere north of that is seen as back of beyond hillbilly territory

 

[PinzaC55]

Sunderland has Greggs, The Fire Station, a canny Travelodge and frequent buses to Durham. That should swing things in our favour.

 

[Nicky Winterwasp]

Sunderland has Greggs, The Fire Station, a canny Travelodge and frequent buses to Durham. That should swing things in our favour.

& Taybarns.

 

[Hair Flick]

Not true. The whole of BBC Sport is in Manchester, about the same journey time from London as Durham.

They’ve been in Salford a while now. I think the Breakfast show also comes from there and a lot of 5Live

 

[monkeytassle]

National transport links to Durham are excellent. Good train, two airports within 30 mins, A1M. Sunderland to Durham needs a new rapid transit link as I have repeatedly advocated on here.

They're not in reality though. One of the two airports has shit internal flights and is badly connected. The other you have to bypass Newcastle on one of the shittest bits if motorway outside of the m25. The metro is abysmal. Inside the North East if you don't drive you're pretty much fucked.

And the chances of channel 4 media luvvies moving to the North east are pretty close to zero.

Waste of time and money even proposing it.

 

[Epping]

Bishop Auckland would be best bet

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Salford.

Anywhere north of that is seen as back of beyond hillbilly territory

Doh Misread your post, sorry.

 

[Narraback]

This

Salford and Birmingham are the Beeb's main outposts and both are central with easy access to all major transport links.

Durham, Sunlun and Poocastle won't be in the running imo

Yep. They can't even build a decent cycle track between Wearside and Tyneside ffs.

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Are any NE cities bidding for this? It would be good for the region.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/channel-4-open-new-national-14386314

On the news the other night it said Newcastle/Gateshead were in the mix. Personally I think Manchester and Cardiff are more likely places as there is already a strong media presence there.