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.navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:BBC_sidebar" title="Template:BBC sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:BBC_sidebar" title="Template talk:BBC sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:BBC_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:BBC sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>BBC English Regions</b> is the division of the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> responsible for local and regional television, radio, <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">web</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Teletext" title="Teletext">teletext</a> services in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Man" title="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Channel_Islands" title="Channel Islands">Channel Islands</a>. It is one of the BBC's four "nations" – the others being <a href="/wiki/BBC_Cymru_Wales" title="BBC Cymru Wales">BBC Cymru Wales</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Northern Ireland">BBC Northern Ireland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">BBC Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The division is made up of 12 regions. Many of the names of these regions are similar to those of the official government <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Regions of England</a>, but the areas covered are often significantly different, being determined by <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_television" title="Terrestrial television">terrestrial</a> transmission coverage rather than administrative boundaries.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BBC English Regions has its headquarters at <a href="/wiki/The_Mailbox" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mailbox">The Mailbox</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> (West Midlands) and additional regional television centres in <a href="/wiki/Norwich" title="Norwich">Norwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_House" title="Broadcasting House">Broadcasting House</a> (London), <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle</a>, <a href="/wiki/MediaCityUK" title="MediaCityUK">MediaCityUK</a> (Salford), <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunbridge_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunbridge Wells">Tunbridge Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Kingston upon Hull</a> as well as local radio stations based at 43 locations across England.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Overall, the division produces over 70% of the BBC's domestic television and radio output hours, for about 7% of the <a href="/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Television licensing in the United Kingdom">licence</a> fee.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since April 2009, the English Regions division has been aligned with the <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a> department to "maximise co-operation in the BBC's news operations".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_four_regions">The four regions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The four regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current BBC English Regions division was the product of the controversial <i>Broadcasting in the Seventies</i> report – a radical review of the BBC's network radio and non-metropolitan broadcasting structure – published on 10 July 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before this the structure of regional broadcasting in England had remained virtually unchanged since the late 1920s, when the establishment of four regional radio transmission stations covering England had led to a regional structure on similar lines. <a href="/wiki/BBC_North" title="BBC North">BBC North</a> was based in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and covered the area from <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> northwards, <a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_Midlands_and_East_Anglia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BBC Midlands and East Anglia (page does not exist)">BBC Midlands and East Anglia</a> was based in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a> covering a swathe of central England from <a href="/wiki/The_Potteries" class="mw-redirect" title="The Potteries">the Potteries</a> to <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_West" title="BBC South West">BBC South and West</a> was based in <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a> covering the area south and west of a line from <a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a> to <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a>. The London area, though it had regional transmission infrastructure of its own, produced only national programming and wasn't considered to be a region as it acted as the sustaining service for the other regions. </p><p>These regions (alongside the national regions <a href="/wiki/BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">BBC Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Wales">BBC Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Northern Ireland">BBC Northern Ireland</a> that performed a similar role outside England) were well-suited to delivering the pre-war <a href="/wiki/BBC_Regional_Programme" title="BBC Regional Programme">BBC Regional Programme</a> and the post-war <a href="/wiki/BBC_Home_Service" title="BBC Home Service">BBC Home Service</a> that replaced it. By the 1960s, though, the growth of television, the birth of the more locally based <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> franchises in 1955 and the development of smaller <a href="/wiki/BBC_Local_Radio" title="BBC Local Radio">BBC Local Radio</a> stations (made possible by the development of <a href="/wiki/FM_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="FM radio">FM radio</a>) were making the structure look increasingly anachronistic. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Broadcasting_in_the_Seventies"><i>Broadcasting in the Seventies</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Broadcasting in the Seventies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BBC_English_Regions.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/BBC_English_Regions.svg/250px-BBC_English_Regions.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/BBC_English_Regions.svg/375px-BBC_English_Regions.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/BBC_English_Regions.svg/500px-BBC_English_Regions.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="172" data-file-height="19" /></a><figcaption>Previous BBC English Regions logo</figcaption></figure> <p>The effect of <i>Broadcasting in the Seventies</i> was to separate the two different roles of regional BBC offices into different organisations:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The two major television channels <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC1</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC2</a> were to remain primarily national operations. To prevent this leading to total domination by London, three large <i>Network Production Centres</i> (NPC), each one having its own medium-size colour TV studio – <a href="/wiki/BBC_Bristol" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Bristol">BBC Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Birmingham" title="BBC Birmingham">BBC Birmingham</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Manchester" title="BBC Manchester">BBC Manchester</a> – were established in the headquarters of the former regions, to produce programming for national broadcast across the entire United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Each of the production centres also had network radio studios (<a href="/wiki/BBC_Birmingham" title="BBC Birmingham">BBC Birmingham</a>, for instance, producing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Archers" title="The Archers">The Archers</a></i>) plus a small television news studio, the latter to enable local (<a href="/wiki/Opt_out" class="mw-redirect" title="Opt out">opt out</a>) programming. </p> <ul><li>BBC English Regions was created to take on this other role of the former regions – the production of specifically local programming (mainly from small <i>island sites</i>) – through a new tier of eight much smaller regions described on page eight of the report as <i>"the basic unit of English broadcasting outside London"</i> and controlled from headquarters in the newly built <a href="/wiki/Pebble_Mill_studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Pebble Mill studios">Pebble Mill studios</a> in Birmingham.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>As a result of the latter, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>-based <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_West" title="BBC South West">BBC South West</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>-based <a href="/wiki/BBC_South" title="BBC South">BBC South</a> were split from <a href="/wiki/BBC_West" title="BBC West">BBC West</a> in Bristol; <a href="/wiki/Norwich" title="Norwich">Norwich</a>-based <a href="/wiki/BBC_East" title="BBC East">BBC East</a> separated from <a href="/wiki/BBC_West_Midlands" title="BBC West Midlands">BBC Midlands</a> in Birmingham; a new smaller <a href="/wiki/BBC_North_West" title="BBC North West">BBC North West</a> was created from the existing <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>-based region, with the old <a href="/wiki/BBC_North" title="BBC North">BBC North</a> name being taken by the newly created region based in <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the existing <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle</a>-based <a href="/wiki/BBC_North_East_and_Cumbria" title="BBC North East and Cumbria">BBC North East</a> separated from the old BBC North Region in this process. </p><p>In addition, London and the surrounding area was finally recognised as a region with the creation of <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">BBC South East</a> although the region was not to get a dedicated regional programme of its own until 1982 and regional news bulletins for the area did not launch until September 1985. </p><p>These new regions produced local news programmes and <a href="/wiki/Opt_out" class="mw-redirect" title="Opt out">opt-outs</a> on television, but regional radio programming on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Home_Service" title="BBC Home Service">BBC Home Service</a> was to be replaced by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Local_Radio" title="BBC Local Radio">BBC Local Radio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report stated that the local radio experiment, started in 1967 <i>"has proved that there is a demand for local radio"</i> and that the BBC should <i>"put forward to the <a href="/wiki/Postmaster_General_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postmaster General of the United Kingdom">Postmaster General</a> a provisional scheme for expanding our local network to about forty stations"</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_structure">Current structure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Current structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BBC_English_regions_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/BBC_English_regions_map.svg/220px-BBC_English_regions_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/BBC_English_regions_map.svg/330px-BBC_English_regions_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/BBC_English_regions_map.svg/440px-BBC_English_regions_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="825" /></a><figcaption>Map of the BBC English regions</figcaption></figure> <p>This structure has largely survived since the 1970s. Local news services were developed on <a href="/wiki/Ceefax" title="Ceefax">Ceefax</a> from 1997 and were extended onto the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">web</a> in 1999. The decreasing costs of television production and improving technology also enabled the gradual development of even smaller regions. In 1991, <a href="/wiki/BBC_East_Midlands" title="BBC East Midlands">BBC East Midlands</a> was finally created in <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/BBC_London" title="BBC London">BBC London</a> (separated from BBC South East) became a region in 2001<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_North" title="BBC North">BBC North</a> was split into <a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire" title="BBC Yorkshire">BBC Yorkshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire" title="BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire">BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire</a> in 2004<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – with the new millennium seeing several BBC regions moving into new premises. In the East, South and South West regions, sub-regional opt-outs during local news programmes have also been created (similar to those on <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> regional news programmes), based respectively in Cambridge, Oxford and Jersey. In total, the BBC has produced the regional news bulletins for <a href="/wiki/BBC_London_(TV_programme)" title="BBC London (TV programme)">London</a>, the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_East" title="BBC Look East">East</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East_Today" title="BBC South East Today">South East</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_Today" title="BBC South Today">South</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Spotlight_(South_West)" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Spotlight (South West)">South West</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Points_West" title="BBC Points West">West</a>, the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Midlands_Today" title="BBC Midlands Today">West</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_East_Midlands_Today" title="BBC East Midlands Today">East Midlands</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/BBC_North_West_Tonight" title="BBC North West Tonight">North West</a> regions of England, with the <i>Look North</i> branding for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_North_(Yorkshire_and_North_Midlands)" title="BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)">Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_North_(East_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire)" title="BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)">East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_North_(North_East_and_Cumbria)" title="BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria)">the North East and Cumbria</a>, with national bulletins for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Reporting_Scotland" title="BBC Reporting Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Wales_Today" title="BBC Wales Today">Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Newsline" title="BBC Newsline">Northern Ireland</a>. All follow the national UK-wide <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a> bulletins. </p><p>In May 2022 the BBC announced the cessation of the Cambridge and Oxford sub-regional television news bulletins as part of plans to move to a digital-first BBC. The last bulletins aired at 18:30 on the 16th December 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programmes">Programmes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Programmes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Programmes made for BBC English Regions include <i><a href="/wiki/Walking_with..._(2019_TV_series)" title="Walking with... (2019 TV series)">Walking with...</a></i> and <i>Winter Walks</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> two series produced by <a href="/wiki/Cy_Chadwick" title="Cy Chadwick">Cy Chadwick</a>, where presenters take solitary walks along scenic paths, filming themselves and their surroundings with a <a href="/wiki/360-degree_camera" class="mw-redirect" title="360-degree camera">360-degree camera</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Selfie_stick" title="Selfie stick">selfie stick</a>. All the episodes from a series get a regional slot on BBC One where they are broadcast at all the same time, before the whole series gets a national repeat on either <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> or <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="We_Are_England"><i>We Are England</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: We Are England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/We_Are_England_(2022_TV_programme)" title="We Are England (2022 TV programme)">We Are England (2022 TV programme)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:We_Are_England_title.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/We_Are_England_title.svg/220px-We_Are_England_title.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/We_Are_England_title.svg/330px-We_Are_England_title.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/We_Are_England_title.svg/440px-We_Are_England_title.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption><i>We Are England</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2022, a new regional documentary strand titled <i>We Are England</i> was launched,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a replacement for the current affairs show <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Out_(2002_TV_programme)" title="Inside Out (2002 TV programme)">Inside Out</a></i>. A notable change is that episodes represent large, new, combinations of English regions, based in six main bases (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Norwich); each week is themed around a different subtitle, with the first being <i>Mental Health</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aisling O'Connor, the head of TV Commissioning for BBC England, commissioned 120 episodes to be broadcast in 2022, with the first being shown on 26 January 2022 at 7:30pm.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In-addition to being shown on <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a>, select episodes are also repeated on <a href="/wiki/BBC_News_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC News (TV channel)">BBC News</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2022, the BBC announced a raft of closures, restructures and cost-cutting measures and one of these was the decision not to renew <i>We Are England</i> for a third series.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BBC_English_Regions&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 April</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Frequency+Finder+UK+%E2%80%93+History+of+radio+transmission&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk%2Ffreq_find%2Ftrans_hist2.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABBC+English+Regions" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Broadcasting in the Seventies</i> was a document concerned mainly with radio reorganisation and funding – having only one and one half pages devoted to television and the regions (on pages 7 and 8) – where it had stated, back in 1969, that <i>"in the longer term, as money permits, we would hope to set up further centres, with the one in the East Midlands as a first priority"</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160118082428/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbc_se_and_ldn/bbc_southeast_news.html">"BBC South East – News"</a>. 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style="width:1%;text-align:left">Nations and<br />regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">England</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Birmingham" title="BBC Birmingham">Birmingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_%26_Music_Production_Bristol" title="BBC Radio & Music Production Bristol">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_East" title="BBC East">East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_East_Midlands" title="BBC East Midlands">East Midlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_London" title="BBC London">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Manchester" title="BBC Manchester">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_North_East_and_Cumbria" title="BBC North East and Cumbria">North East & Cumbria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_North_West" title="BBC North West">North West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_South" title="BBC South">South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">South East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_South_West" title="BBC South West">South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_West" title="BBC West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_West_Midlands" title="BBC West Midlands">West Midlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire" title="BBC Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire" title="BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire">Yorkshire & Lincolnshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rest of UK</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">Scotland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_G%C3%A0idhlig" title="BBC Gàidhlig">Gàidhlig</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Cymru_Wales" title="BBC Cymru Wales">Wales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Commercial<br />subsidiaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Studios" title="BBC Studios">BBC Studios</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Studios_Productions" title="BBC Studios Productions">Productions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Studios_Natural_History_Unit" title="BBC Studios Natural History Unit">Natural History Unit</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Studios_Home_Entertainment" title="BBC Studios Home Entertainment">Home Entertainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demon_Music_Group" title="Demon Music Group">Demon Music Group</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Studioworks" title="BBC Studioworks">BBC Studioworks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Worldwide" title="BBC Worldwide">BBC Worldwide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_BBC" title="Timeline of the BBC">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Archives" title="BBC Archives">Archives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Sound_Archive" title="BBC Sound Archive">Sound Archive</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Trust" title="BBC Trust">BBC Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_BBC" title="Board of Governors of the BBC">Board of Governors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Company" title="British Broadcasting Company">British Broadcasting Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_BBC" title="Coat of arms of the BBC">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_controversies" title="BBC controversies">Controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC" title="Criticism of the BBC">Criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_day_of_BBC_television" title="First day of BBC television">First day of TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logo_of_the_BBC" title="Logo of the BBC">Logo</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Radio_Times" title="Radio Times">Radio Times</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Genome_Project" title="BBC Genome Project">Genome</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_BBC" title="Timeline of the BBC">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Key<br />properties<br />(<a href="/wiki/List_of_BBC_properties" title="List of BBC properties">full list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">London</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_House" title="Broadcasting House">Broadcasting House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lime_Grove_Studios#BBC_studios" title="Lime Grove Studios">Lime Grove</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maida_Vale_Studios" title="Maida Vale Studios">Maida Vale Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Television_Centre,_London" title="Television Centre, London">Television Centre</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Place" title="White City Place">White City & Media Village</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Birmingham</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Drama_Village" title="BBC Drama Village">Drama Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mailbox_Birmingham" title="Mailbox Birmingham">Mailbox Birmingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pebble_Mill_Studios" title="Pebble Mill Studios">Pebble Mill Studios</a> (former)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cardiff</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Cymru_Wales_New_Broadcasting_House" title="BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House">New Broadcasting House, Cardiff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_House,_Cardiff" title="Broadcasting House, Cardiff">Broadcasting House</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roath_Lock" title="Roath Lock">Drama Village (Roath Lock)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wales_Millennium_Centre#Phase_2_(C_Bay)_–_BBC_Hoddinott_Hall" title="Wales Millennium Centre">BBC Hoddinott Hall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_House,_Belfast" title="Broadcasting House, Belfast">Broadcasting House, Belfast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Elstree_Centre" title="BBC Elstree Centre">BBC Elstree Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MediaCityUK" title="MediaCityUK">MediaCityUK, Salford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Pacific_Quay" title="BBC Pacific Quay">Pacific Quay, Glasgow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Finance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Television licensing in the United Kingdom">Television licence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom_(historical)" title="Television licensing in the United Kingdom (historical)">history</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Projects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Backstage.bbc.co.uk" title="Backstage.bbc.co.uk">Backstage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Micro" title="BBC Micro">BBC Micro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_UK_regional_TV_on_satellite" title="BBC UK regional TV on satellite">BBC UK regional TV on satellite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Box" title="BBC Box">The Box</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Bitesize" title="BBC 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