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{{Infobox broadcasting network
| name = BBC North West
| logo = BBC Logo 2021.svg
| image = [[File:BBC Logo 2021.svg|200px]]<br><br>[[File:BBC UK Regions (North West highlighted).svg|200px]]<br>BBC North West's area within the UK
| logo_size = 200
| image = BBC UK Regions (North West highlighted).svg
| image_size = 200
| caption = BBC North West's area within the UK
| headquarters = [[MediaCityUK|MediaCity]], [[Salford Quays]], [[Greater Manchester]]
| area = {{ubl|[[Cheshire]]<br>|[[Greater Manchester]]<br>|[[Lancashire]]<br>|[[Merseyside]]<br>|[[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]])<br>[[West Yorkshire]] (western [[Calderdale]])<br>|[[Derbyshire]] (western [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]])<br>|[[Staffordshire]] ([[Biddulph]])|[[Cumbria]] ([[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[South Lakeland]])<br>|[[Isle of Man]]}}
| nation = [[BBC English Regions]]
| regions = [[North West England|North West]] and, [[Isle of Man]] and parts of [[Yorkshire]] and [[East Midlands]]
| tvstations =
| tvtransmitters = [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]] and all relays.
| radiostations = {{ubl|[[BBC Radio Lancashire]]<br>|[[BBC Radio Manchester]]<br>|[[BBC Radio Merseyside]]<br>|[[BBC Radio Cumbria]] (South)|[[BBC Radio Stoke]] (South Cheshire)}}
| radiotransmitters =
| keypeople = '''{{ubl|Aziz Rashid'''<br>|(Head of Regional<br> & Local Programmes)}}
| launched = {{ubl|15 November 1922 (radio)|September 1957 (television)}}
| launched =
| closeddate =
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'''BBC North West''' is the [[BBC English Regions|BBC English Region]] serving [[Cheshire]], [[Greater Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], [[Merseyside]], as well as parts of [[North Yorkshire]] (western [[Craven District|Craven]]), [[West YorkshireDerbyshire]] (western [[CalderdaleHigh Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]]), [[DerbyshireStaffordshire]] (western [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High PeakBiddulph]]), [[Cumbria]] ([[Barrow-in-Furness (borough)|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[South Lakeland]]) and the [[Isle of Man]].
 
The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s, complete with an opt-out television news service for the area, before it was transferred to the BBC North East region owing to high viewer demand. Today, the region is part of the larger [[BBC North|BBC North division]] based at [[MediaCityUK]] in [[Salford Quays]].
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===Television===
''BBC North West'' produces regional TV news, used to be produce current affairs and still has sports output including the flagship nightly news programme ''[[North West Tonight]]'', alongside daytime ''North West Today'' bulletins and opt-out updates on weekdays during ''[[BBC Breakfast]]''.
 
Non-news output used to consist of the current affairs programme ''[[Inside Out (2002 TV programme)|Inside Out North West]]'' but the programme and current affairs output was abandoned. It still makes a political opt-out. The rugby league highlights programme ''[[Super League Show|The Super League Show]]'', produced by PDI Media at the [[BBC Yorkshire|BBC Yorkshire's]] studio in Leeds, is also simulcast to north west viewers.
 
===Radio===
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===Online and Interactive===
''BBC North West'' also produces regional news & local radio pages for [[BBC Red Button]] and ''BBC Local News'' websites for each county and the Isle of Man.
 
==History==
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===Radio===
Regional broadcasting in the North West had begunbegan on 15 November 1922 when the BBC opened its Manchester radio station [[2ZY]], followed two years later by the opening of a Liverpool-based relay station, 2LY.
 
At this point, the Manchester operation covered the entire North of England and northern parts of the Midlands, with relay stations in Leeds (2LS), Hull (6KH), Nottingham (5NG) and Stoke-on-Trent (6ST) carrying 2ZY output. Early broadcasts were made from studios at the [[Metropolitan-Vickers]] electricity works in Old Trafford.
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[[Image:Dickenson Road Studios.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dickenson Road Studios]], the first BBC television studio in Manchester, pictured in the 1960s.]]
[[File:BBC Piccadilly Studios - geograph-2182393-by-David-Dixon.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|BBC Broadcasting House in Piccadilly Gardens]]
[[File:New Broadcasting House - geograph.org.uk - 1962690.jpg|thumb|New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road]]
[[File:BBC-Media-City.jpg|thumb|BBC Quay House at [[MediaCityUK]] in Salford Quays]]
From 1929 until 1981, many of the BBC's Manchester operations were based at Broadcasting House in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester City Centre.
 
The building had been leased to the Corporation from a bank on the ground floor and became the central control room for regional and network radio production from the city.
 
In 1954, a former Methodist church on Dickenson Road in [[Rusholme]] became the BBC's first Manchester television studio, [[Dickenson Road Studios]]. It was brought from [[Mancunian Films]], who had converted the church building in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Jeffrey |title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army |date=15 September 1997 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4743-5 |page=267 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.co.ukcom/books/edition/Films_and_British_National_Identity/Bck6oHB6_AwC?hlid=en&gbpv=1Bck6oHB6_AwC&pg=PA267&printsec=frontcover |access-date=28 May 2022 |languagevia=enGoogle Books}}</ref>
 
The Dickenson Road facilities became the main home of the city's network production base, providing facilities for television drama. It was here that the early editions of the long-running programme ''[[Top Of The Pops]]'' were produced.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Humphries |first1=Patrick |title=Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary |date=28 November 2013 |publisher=McNidder and Grace Limited |isbn=978-0-85716-063-8 |page=23 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.co.ukcom/books/edition/Top_of_the_Pops_50th_Anniversary/tMscAwAAQBAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=1tMscAwAAQBAJ&dq=top%20of%20the%20pops&pg=PT23 |access-date=28 May 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bignell |first1=J. |last2=Lacey |first2=S. |title=British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future |date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-32758-1 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHWEAwAAQBAJ&printsecdq=dickenson+Road+studios&pg=frontcoverPA108 |access-date=28 May 2022 |languagevia=enGoogle Books}}</ref> The BBC's northern outside broadcast units were located at another former church nearby, on the corner of Birch Lane and Plymouth Grove in [[Longsight]].<ref name="g7uk">{{cite web |title=The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) |url=https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |website=g7uk |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226040040/https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2021 |date=24 September 2012}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bignell |first1=J. |last2=Lacey |first2=S. |title=British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future |date=12 May 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-32758-1 |page=108 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/British_Television_Drama/YHWEAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dickenson+Road+studios&pg=PA108&printsec=frontcover |access-date=28 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The BBC's northern outside broadcast units were located at another former church nearby, on the corner of Birch Lane and Plymouth Grove in [[Longsight]].<ref name="g7uk">{{cite web |title=The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) |url=https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |website=g7uk |access-date=28 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226040040/https://www.g7uk.com/photo-video-blog/20120924-the-end-of-the-oxford-road-show-video.shtml |archive-date=26 February 2021 |date=24 September 2012}}</ref>
 
Meanwhile, regional television news and presentation began in September 1957, firstly from the crypt at Dickenson Road, before moving two years later to Broadcasting House in [[Piccadilly Gardens]].
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==See also==
{{Portal|BBC|North West England}}
*[[BBC English Regions]]
 
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