However, the changes seem to have taken many viewers by surprise, judging by the responses to an ITV Local blog post explaining the changes in the Meridian region in the south-east introduced last week. ITV is vacating the old Westcountry Langage studio, rented from Plymouth City Council, but will retain a bureau in the city with three journalists, plus camera crew and editors, sharing facilities with independent producer Two Four.
ITV is also retaining two journalists in Exeter, two in Cornwall and the local sports correspondent and will retain the weather presenter on a freelance basis. Instead of a half-hour standalone programme, Lookaround and North East Tonight will each comprise at least 15 minutes of dedicated local news at the start of the programme, followed by shared output from both regions.
Residents of the rural ITV Border region fear the second half will be dominated by news from the more urbanised north-east. Although the programmes will retain their own branding, they will be hosted by the existing North East Tonight presenters Pam Royle and Ian Payne. However, Lookaround viewers will see some familiar faces, including Helen Pearson and Fiona Armstrong.
Meridian Tonight , the first of the new look ITV regional bulletins on air, launched on Monday 9 February, sparking hundreds of complaints form viewers saying the service was "not local enough". The new Meridian region bulletin replace three opts outs for Meridian East, Meridian South and Thames Valley and is the largest outside London, serving 8 million viewers. Meridian's main production base remains in Whiteley, Hampshire, which served as headquarters for each of the three regions already, with bureaux in Brighton, Poole, Abingdon and Maidstone.
Meridian has two sub-regions, with a minute opt-out to allow for greater localisation in the 6pm news and separate programmes after the News at Ten. The western sub-region is the larger of the two, spanning from the Isle of Wight to Oxford, because of the difficulty of getting an analogue or digital TV Freeview signal over the South Downs.
A blog post explaining the changes by Robin Britton, head of news for Meridian Tonight, has attracted hundreds of negative comments, with viewers threatening to defect to the BBC. One map fanatic plots atlas of the world's most famous fictional places from TV, film and book. Email us at haveyoursay bbc. Follow Have Your Say on Twitter.
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