Cuts To Local Bbc Radio

[Maydup]

I'm not a regular listener but I do like the odd weekend programme on local BBC Radio. How do you feel about the cuts just announced affecting afternoons, evenings and weekends?

From 6am till 2pm, 39 local shows will continue across the 39 Local BBC Radio stations

From 2pm till 6pm, 18 regional shows will be shared across the 39 stations. The 18 shows will air in:

Manchester
Merseyside
Lancashire and Cumbria
Newcastle and Tees
Leeds, Sheffield and York
Humberside and Lincolnshire
WM
Coventry and Warwickshire, Shropshire and Hereford and Worcestershire
Stoke, Derby and Nottingham
Leicester and Northampton
Essex
Cambridge, 3CR, Suffolk and Norfolk
London
Solent, Berkshire and Oxford
Kent, Sussex and Surrey
Devon and Cornwall
Bristol, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset
Guernsey and Jersey

From 6pm weekdays and weekend breakfast, 10 shows will be broadcast where local sport is not broadcast. The 10 shows are:

Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire,
Newcastle, Tees and Cumbria
Leeds, Sheffield, York and Humberside
WM, CWR, Shropshire, H&W and Stoke
Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and Lincolnshire
Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk, Norfolk, 3CR and Northants
Solent, Berkshire and Oxford
London, Lent, Sussex and Surrey
Bristol, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset
Devon and Cornwall

From 10am till 2pm Saturday and Sunday, 12 shows will be shared across the network. They are in:

Manchester
Merseyside and Lancashire
Cumbria, Newcastle and Tees
Leeds, Sheffield, York and Humberside
WM, CWR, Shropshire, H&W and Stoke
Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and Lincolnshire
London
Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northants and 3CR
Solent, Berkshire and Oxford
Kent, Sussex and Surrey
Devon and Cornwall
Bristol, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset

From 10pm weekdays and from 2pm every Sunday all 39 local radio stations will share one nationwide feed, with presenters yet to be decided/announced.

[jno]

a big blow, local radio stations are very popular.

[Maydup]

Not a great legacy for their 100th Year Celebrations either.

[jno]

the government's trying to kill it by freezing the licence fee.

[Maydup]

.... rather than freezing or capping salaries.

[jno]

what happens when the BBC can't compete on salaries?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62723769

[dave50]

There are plenty of local commercial radio stations, we don't need local bbc stations.

[Hopkirk]

Whenever I have listened to it I have thought it sounds amateurish. I think the BBC has better things to spend it's limited resources on.

One exception is a presenter called JVS, Jonathan Vernon Smith, on Three Counties Radio. He is excellent and should have been promoted to national radio years ago.

[davebro]

The BBC has got too big for it's boots feeding off a compulsory tax on all TV viewers. They need to make some REAL economies starting with the exorbitant salaries of management & "stars".

[davebro]

//Vanessa Feltz, Simon Mayo, Andrew Marr, Peter Crouch, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Dan Walker, Steve Wright, Paul O'Grady, Craig Charles, Graham Norton, Shaun Keaveny and Sue Barker are some of the biggest names who have either been poached, dropped or demoted.//

I can't see a single one of those who I will miss & several who I'm really pleased to see go.

[youngmafbog]

Axe the Tax.

The whole bloated corporation and its abominable tax needs to go.

Streamlined pay per view is the answer, then if you want their content than pay for it and not expect to be subsidised by others who dont.

[Hopkirk]

Oh Dave, Jon Sopel is a loss.

[emmie]

as is Sue Barker, can't understand why she has been set down

[davebro]

I seem to be repeatedly writing IT'S when it should be ITS. This is a fairly recent occurrence. Is there a possible cause/cure?

[Spicerack]

// dropped or demoted.//
Lol, surely not. I thought it couldn't compete on salaries, jno. sob

When an organisation indulges in Affirmative Action and Diversity Quotas, sure, you'll have winners (hurrah) but it's inevitable that you'll also get losers.
Also, anyone who has a chance to jump ship will take it before they're, also, dropped or demoted.

[davebro]

If you miss some of these "stars" on BBC I suppose you could always catch them on their new channels?

Maybe the BBC should be promoting new talent on lower pay & introductory (short term) contracts.