30-10-2022, 11:00 PM
Essentially, from what I can gather, the proposal would reduce the *original* programming from each existing station to two programmes, Breakfast and Mid-morning.
I’m a sense, it’s devastating. Colleagues in Local Radio have been the backbone of the BBC, particularly during Covid, and to see it gutted like this is just truly a damning statement of where things have got to.
That said, the even more depressing part, in a sense, is realising that the proposals would essentially reduce programmes by half. We’re already in a situation where most evening programming is pooled and the daytime schedule exists (in the main) in four blocks (Breakfast, Mid Morn, Afternoon, and Drivetime).
I’m a sense, it’s devastating. Colleagues in Local Radio have been the backbone of the BBC, particularly during Covid, and to see it gutted like this is just truly a damning statement of where things have got to.
That said, the even more depressing part, in a sense, is realising that the proposals would essentially reduce programmes by half. We’re already in a situation where most evening programming is pooled and the daytime schedule exists (in the main) in four blocks (Breakfast, Mid Morn, Afternoon, and Drivetime).