David Holdsworth, Controller, English Regions
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English Regions are responsible for all non-networked television, text and radio output in England as well as the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s local websites covering the English Regions.
The best known output is the daily regional news programmes such as Look North and Points West, and Local Radio stations like ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Newcastle and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent.
The English Regions also produce regional aspects of the , and Inside Out on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½1, as well as the regional pages on Ceefax and digital text.
44 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local websites cover the whole of England, providing a range of information and entertainment features about local issues.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Interactive has teamed up with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English Regions to maintain teams of journalists in each of the English regional centres, providing the news content for both the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local websites and the site.
71% of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s domestic output hours are produced by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English Regions, for about 7% of the licence fee.
There are twelve regions, each of which has a regional head, who report to David Holdsworth, Controller English Regions, based in Birmingham.
For further information about the English Regions, or to comment on the output overall, e-mail english.enquiries@bbc.co.uk.
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