The region's popular and award winning television news programme is 'North West Tonight' and is produced from Manchester with offices in Lancaster, Blackburn, Liverpool and Chester. 'The Politics Show' on BBC One is a weekly parliamentary programmes and broadcasts on Sunday lunchtimes. 'Inside Out' is the region's current affairs strand on BBC One. The next series presented by Ana Boulter, starts in January and is aiming to bring 'surprising stories from familiar places'. Additional programmes are also produced in response to special events and stories. Facilitating these and other programmes, Operations provides a broad range of resources from camera crews to post production through to a full range of studio facilities. The three BBC Local Radio stations in the North West (BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Lancashire, and BBC Radio Merseyside) have a combined weekly reach of over one million listeners. Radio Manchester first broadcast to the Manchester population in 1970. After undergoing a name change to BBC GMR in 1988 (to reflect the wider Greater Manchester area), it reverted to its original name BBC Radio Manchester on 03 April 2006. BBC Radio Lancashire has been the most listened to radio station in the county for most of the past six years, and BBC Radio Merseyside is the country's third and largest local radio station. Complementing the Radio and Television output are the BBCi 'Where I Live' online sites for Lancashire, Liverpool and Manchester all of whom attract two hundred thousand hits a week, and cover everything from local cultural events to local national events like the Commonwealth Games. BBC Open Centres were pioneered in the North West and encourage local people to come and interact with the BBC. Three BBC Buses also travel around the region to offer free IT training, and the BBC Big Screen in central Manchester is a pioneering experiment in public broadcasting. It offers a new way to deliver quality programming and major events like Wimbledon and Euro 2004. Located in Manchester's Exchange Square it's the modern city's equivalent of the village green. | 
