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RE: BBC Local Radio - Stooky Bill - 26-10-2023

(06-10-2023, 09:55 AM)Robert Williams Wrote:  Coventry and Warwickshire only existed as an opt-out of WM from 1995-2005, so this should be nothing new for listeners in that part of the country. And although the Stoke/Shropshire/H&W grouping is awkward, it's probably no worse than the original Shropshire/H&W/CWR proposal.

Until Covid came along and shook up the schedules, Shropshire, H&W and Stoke had shared programmes every weekend (although I think there was one programme, possibly Shropshire's Folk Music show that went out only in DAB on Stoke, something like that). 

It's not that strange a pairing on a map and Shropshire and H&W have a lot in common. Stoke is always the outlier, it's kind of Midlands region but kind of North West region and covers Cheshire too

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(10-10-2023, 08:51 PM)TJTSW Wrote:  Radio Devon is a right old mess, so we have afternoon drive covered from Radio Cornwall  titled the David White show  which when i finish work and tune in has nothing local, David white bangs on about werid news stories or a random mixtape  and when i say random  yesterday was about soap operas ??? i mean surely  if you want yo do a mixtape you would be able to keep it Devon and Cornwall related at least?  and werid news its random rubbish off the internet from all over the world?  why???

This is part of the problem, what they should be doing it having a shared programme which has content about all the areas it covers. They should be open with it and have items about Devon and Cornwall. But they're not, they're going for generic items that have no local appeal as they've been told not to mention where they're broadcasting to. 

That said my local station and presumably many others have been doing that sort of thing for a few years now. The covid schedules made everything into 4 hour programmes which were all local and all solo presenter. They had real problems filling all that time. A lot of the programmes especially at the weekend were full of filler. 

For some parts of the schedule shared programmes are a good thing, but they have to be decently produced. The weekend shared programmes which were specialist music worked well for example. Over covid my local shared some afternoons due to lack of staff, even at the last minute they were better than the permanant ones now

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Omnipresent - 26-10-2023

I was in Nottingham last weekend and listened BBC Radio Nottingham on Sunday.

The breakfast show had lots of local content about recent floods, interviews with local councillors etc.  Then it switched to a mid-morning show where listeners were told they were listening to the "BBC across Leicester and Nottingham".  It switched to largely generic subjects, last night's Strictly, the days when people used landlines.

Later in the afternoon, there was a networked show between Nottingham and Lincolnshire.

The execution of the whole initiative, from the sheer randomness of the networking and drawn out process, has been astonishingly bad.

By all means rethink how to do local radio, but this project seems like sabotage.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - TJTSW - 26-10-2023

It is complete random! first of all I thought maybe it was the local teams trying to cause issues as they were not happy, but I dont think it is,

This feels more like the BBC trying to ruin Local Radio then hope people will listen to one of the BBC Nation stations instead,
so if we use BBC Sounds and make all the stations sound as generic as possible we will not care when local radio goes

There is a reason I tune into a local radio station and its because its got local content, if I wanted generic topics I'd listen to a national station - its that simple.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Josh - 31-10-2023

The country-wide networked early breakfast show is to end after Christmas to be replaced with "something new".

https://twitter.com/JasonRosam/status/1719263416181727468 

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Toby brown - 31-10-2023

(31-10-2023, 04:06 PM)Josh Wrote:  The country-wide networked early breakfast show is to end after Christmas to be replaced with "something new".

https://twitter.com/JasonRosam/status/1719263416181727468 

It might be 5live according to radio today the London breakfast will now start at 6am like all other BBC local stations

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RE: BBC Local Radio - m_in_m - 31-10-2023

(31-10-2023, 04:14 PM)Toby brown Wrote:  It might be 5live according to radio today the London breakfast will now start at 6am like all other BBC local stations

Certainly saves money but does that mean everyone loses including the 5Live audience?

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Steve in Pudsey - 31-10-2023

Everyone loses seems to be the theme of the rest of the cuts they are making, in fairness.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Joe - 01-11-2023

all new Phil, you asked a question about why these cuts are ‘worse’ than commercial radio ones. I can’t find it now, maybe it’s not even in this thread but it’s in the ‘Every radio station that isn’t BBC Radio Devon’ thread. Anyway…

I don’t listen to BBC local radio AT ALL, but I suppose my take on it is that I don’t have a particular problem with commercial radio converging as it has (beyond some sentimental sense of loss) because (a) they’re commercial and exist to make money and (b) (and here’s the big one) they are seeking to make quasi-national networks where they don’t already have them. The BBC, on the other hand, already have about nine national radio stations covering all kinds of genres. You get to a point where, frankly, what’s the point having the local stations if they are also quasi-national. As I say, I don’t listen to them (that might tell another tale) so I don’t know if we have reached that point, perhaps there is enough local content to justify them. But I would suggest that it’s better to close them altogether if they do reach that threshold where they aren’t doing anything different to, say, 5 Live and Radio 2 which are probably the closest national stations content-wise.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Toby brown - 01-11-2023

Is there a chance that some BBC local stations will be more local over the next few days like staying local overnight because of the weather or is it unlikely

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RE: BBC Local Radio - TJTSW - 01-11-2023

Local Radio would be in its element tonight keeping people upto date with whats going on, watching Spolight, they just mention their 'online teams' rather then your local radio station....

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