BBC North West News

The BBC launched a daily regional television news in September 1957 to the whole of northern England. It was initially covered as one region from Manchester. Two years later, the opt-outs were refocused to cover the North West and Yorkshire & Lincolnshire areas, as the North East and Cumbria was now receiving its own news bulletins.

By 1962, the bulletins had been expanded into a 20-minute magazine programme and renamed North at Six. The current North West region was introduced on 25 March 1968 when a separate Leeds-based edition of Look North for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands was launched.