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**BBC North West**
Headquarters	Oxford Road, Manchester
Broadcast area	Lancashire, Merseyside,; Greater Manchester,Cheshire,; northern Derbyshire,; southern Cumbria,; Isle of Man
Nation	BBC English Regions
TV Transmitters	Winter Hill
Radio Stations; in this area	BBC Radio Manchester; BBC Radio Merseyside; BBC Radio Lancashire
Key people	Aziz Rashid; (Head of Regional; & Local Programmes)

BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, the Ribble Valley in North Yorkshire, the Isle of Man (itself not, in fact, part of England), north-west Derbyshire and southern Cumbria.

BBC North West television output is also broadcast in large parts of North Wales as well as in some villages in north Shropshire and Staffordshire cutting into Stoke On Trent, Biddulph and Newcastle Under Lyme.

The region also covered the rest of Cumbria during the late 1980s and early 1990s, 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.

[edit] Television

BBC North West's television service consists of the flagship regional news programme BBC North West Tonight, shorter North West Today bulletins on weekdays, the topical magazine programme Inside Out and a 20-minute opt-out during the weekly Politics Show.

[edit] Radio

The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Merseyside.

Radio Manchester broadcasts 24 hours a day with Radio Merseyside and Radio Lancashire broadcasting between 5am & 1am on weekdays, 6am & 12am on Radio Lancashire at weekends and 6am & 1am on Radio Merseyside at weekends. The three stations only simulcast for BBC News in the North West bulletins each evening with Radio Manchester and Radio Lancashire also simulcasting the weekday late show and Indus, an Asian community programme on Sunday evenings.

[edit] Other services

BBC North West also produces regional news & local radio pages for Ceefax and local BBC Where I Live websites.

[edit] Studios

The regional headquarters and television centre is at New Broadcasting House in Oxford Road, Manchester with local radio studios and television bureaux also located in Liverpool and Blackburn, together with a district office in Chester.