[Former Member 406]

Remember that except for Saturday sport most local stations will only have 10 mainstream programmes a week (breakfast and mid morning so will only need 2 full time presenters.

I don't think most of their listeners realise the extent of the cuts yet. I noticed a newspaper in Bristol doing a big story on how many of Radio Bristol's presenters are going. I wonder when the penny will drop in the next few weeks

Having now seen the list of who's going from Radio Bristol, it does indeed seem to be arguably most/all of the most perennially popular presenters.

For example... longstanding station stalwart Steve "Yabbo" Yabsley. Although which particular slot he occupies has moved around the schedules a fair bit over the years, his shtick has always been high on fun/humorous/banter-y interaction - such as asking listeners to message the show with their attempts at poems on a given topical subject.

There's a hardcore of long-time heavy contributors to his show, as you often hear the same familiar listeners' names (or at least their social media usernames etc) being mentioned whenever Yabbo reads out the banter that's been sent in. I used to be one of them, until my current circumstances (work pattern etc) versus which slots he now presents brought my listenership of his show - and therefore my interaction with it - to an end during the last couple of years.

And - you've guessed it - he's one of the presenters that the local press have confirmed will be leaving soon.

I suspect that most/all of these kind of colourful characters at each BBC Local Radio station, who are of course massively valued by the loyal listeners, will now be going.