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Bbc Local Radio Cuts — Digital Spy

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North East Labour and Conservative MPs call on the BBC to reconsider cuts to local radio; In an open letter they say they are „dismayed“ at the plans

BBC Local Radio Cuts Also significant that the prime movers behind this come from London where BBC local radio makes little impact, and Wales where they don’t have BBC

BBC local radio cuts — Digital Spy

Another Victim Of BBC Radio Cuts - YouTube

The BBC risks reducing services to older people by its decision to divert spending from local radio to online services as part of a strategy to shift operations outside London, according to MPs.

Local newspapers and commercial radio stations have lost significant journalistic capacity in recent years, as titles and stations have folded or been absorbed into cost-cutting

  • Major cuts in jobs and local shows planned for Local BBC Radio
  • BBC executives questioned on BBC local radio cuts
  • BBC cuts to local radio are a cost we cannot afford
  • MPs hit out at BBC for cutting local radio to fund regional online services

Crawley is an odd place for coverage,for a while the transmitter for there took programmes for Surrey,there even used to be a breakfast show when it was called Southern

BBC Local Radio Cuts I’ve listened to BBC Local Radio for around 35 years and quizzes and trivia have always been part of the output over that time – I don’t think they’ve tried

Hundreds of BBC journalists have voted to end a long-running union dispute over cuts to local radio content. Some 70% of BBC Local NUJ members in radio, TV and online who voted chose

In my ideal world the money spent on those shows would be put into a proper local radio service, but I realise the BBC is not just for me. You are entitled to not listen to local

Nearly 140 jobs are being axed at BBC local radio in England, while the schedule changes brought in as a result of coronavirus will be made permanent – so breakfast, daytime

Tech-savvy some of them may be and sure they can go and listen to Boom or Classic FM or whatever but the truth is BBC Local Radio has provided a valuable service

BBC bosses have announced a major plan to share programmes and cut jobs on Local BBC Radio stations in England.

BBC Local Radio Cuts I would say the target for BBC local radio should be people in their forties and fifties who live, work or have families in the locality and thus may be

There are a lot of ex commercial radio folk higher up the chain in BBC local these days, from music scheduling to higher management. They seem obsessed with creating the

  • Local BBC Radio cuts by Nicky Horne
  • North East MPs urge BBC to rethink local radio cuts
  • BBC Local Radio CutsBBC Local Radio Cuts
  • BBC Cuts: Song to be released about keeping local radio local

The BBC’s cuts to local radio – forced by a funding deficit – will have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable in society.

BBC local radio has managed to get away with dropping so much of its proper local radio programming and local news commitments without any repercussions from Ofcom.

BBC local radio stations will have a significant number of programmes cut under new plans, the corporation has announced. All 39 networks in England will keep their current

Not surprised at all by this news (due to budget constraints these cuts probably should have happened years ago). I do find it a bit strange though that they are looking at

“The planned cuts to programming have provoked genuine disquiet in communities up and down the country, where BBC local radio stations play a key role in

Local radio has got back the listeners who were lost in the last quarter. We wait to see if there is any sort of trend showing recovery – it may just be that more listeners are at

BBC Local Radio Cuts There is currently a water main burst in a high density area of Bristol, and OUR local BBC radio station is not reporting the issue. It’s New Year’s Eve

Now much as BBC Local Radio has been home to many brilliant broadcasters I also think it was in danger of having too many presenters who had been there for 30 plus years and

Whilst I don’t agree that nothing of value or significance has been lost (although eventually there may be nothing of value or significance left to lose if the current direction of

BBC Local Radio. 6am Keeping Faith, National Network 7am Worship, a National programme. 7.30 Regional shows, bare minimum religious content. 10am Semi regional

What is incidentally disappointing, if not appalling, is that the BBC started to rejuvenate Radio 2 on the basis that older people would still have local radio. Now they are to

I suppose there’s always the option of a couple of England wide ethnic shows which could have local inserts or maybe some stations could opt-out of (some stations don’t

Also, BBC Local Radio figures can be quite volatile from quarter to quarter because of the limited number of diaries and sample variations when they change hands. More

The next morning Sustain is programmed to take whatever is coming from BBC Radio London from 5am so the local breakfast presenter simply puts their studio back in

It would be possible to introduce regional radio stations e.g. BBC Radio East & BBC Radio South West and still have separate commentaries on FM & DAB in the multiplex

Notice Dixie from Heart Yorkshire is covering on BBC Radio Leeds (although for some reason not BBC Radio Sheffield or BBC Radio York) on Sunday from 10am to 2pm. I

My wife, who rarely listens to local radio, ‚asked Alexa‘ to play BBC Radio Suffolk on Sunday morning. After trying a few times, she said, „it’s not working“, I keep getting

I disagree, the declining listening figures are because of what the BBC has already done to local radio – letting stations have no identity of their own, bringing in a playlist that

I think part of the problem with the use of audience figures in this thread is that people, the press, the industry and even the BBC as a whole tend to use either the figures for