[all new phil]

A complete catalogue of errors, have a listen back to Toby Foster on BBC Radio Leeds this afternoon

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At 2:03pm the news was cut off by two things playing at once, which then became the Radio Sheffield extended travel bulletin (read very repetitively it has to be said) and then after a sting, a load of dead air

At 2:30pm and again at 3:30pm we got the very start of the Radio Sheffield travel bulletin, followed by newsreader Clive Settle doing the Radio Leeds travel bulletin, with no bed and in a very newsreader style. I’m guessing Clive has never done the travel before. It seemed to basically just consist of Clive muting the Sheffield output and talking in the silent gap.

A bit of dead air around 3:03pm

Go back 5 years you would have had Toby Foster doing a proper service for Sheffield rather than being scared to mention the city, someone like Liz Green doing a proper service for Leeds, and quality travel bulletins from Inrix. It’s sad to see how far the standard has dropped.

Worth pointing out the much less-resourced commercial stations manage all these splits and opts with ease.