We have a big telly in Hull
It cost the council £625k, the Labour leader at the time pushed it through with the help of two other councillors rather than getting the full council to vote on the idea properly. They then erected it using a post-dated retrospective (or whatever the proper item is) planning permission.

They said they would make at least 50% of the outlay back in sponsorship deals. Bear in mind there are some reasonably large companies based in Hull that could've been approached... Reckitt Benckiser, Smith & Nephew, Croda Chemicals, Rank Hovis (at the time) and a good few others.

It never happened, the screen only shows BBC News 24 along with local news Look North and the very occasional sporting event such as Wimbledon and the highlights of the Olympics. In 2008, when Hull City (who had climbed 92 places over the last few years from the depths of the league to the top of the championship) went to Wembley for the play-offs and managed to move up into the Premiership (for the first time in the club's 104 year history), did the council cough up for the rights to show the game to what would've been a very large audience? Did they fuck.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:36, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I remember when I went home
last year. I was walking by the Queen Victoria statue and went "What the FUCK is that" rather loudly.
Someone said "you're not from around here are you"...........
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 17:30, Reply)