[Jon]

From Radio Today.

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

The 2-6pm splits aren’t as bad as they could have been been, on the whole keeping the big cities seperate from the more rural output. Some of the groupings such as Stoke being lumped in with Nottingham and Derby seem a bit weird though. And I’d have thought there was an argument for Coventry & Warwickshire to be lumped in with WM.

If they’re clever about it, each 2-6pm slot should have bespoke links and interviews relevant for that area, whilst keeping one presenter. It’s 2022 and the technology is there to make the change minimal for the listeners.