[Spencer]

I might be wrong but I’d like to put a bet on that these “technical problems” are actually staff shortages.

That being either in front of the camera, behind the scenes, or something breaking and not having out of hours support to fix it.

It seems strange that before COVID regions not providing a bulletin happened very rarely, now since COVID and all the various cut backs in staffing numbers, at least one region in some part of the country seems to lose a bulletin every week.

Either there is literally nobody available to cover if the allocated person goes home sick, or there I no goodwill anymore due to all the cuts to do a double shift/come in on your day off etc.

There does seem less of a will these days to make sure the regional news goes out no matter what.

Even during industrial action, in the past, managers would step up to present and produce programmes to make sure they still provided a basic service. Now it seems to be a case of dropping programmes and putting out another region at the drop of a hat.