29-03-2023, 10:43 PM
I’d like to see how the per-hour cost of The Context compares to Dateline London.
The stated reason for axing Dateline London was that it was too expensive and they wanted to invest the money in other areas of output. Now we are getting an extra hour of The Context, that really doesn’t add up.
It’s a great shame, and the programme fitted so well on both the BBC NC and BBC WN. The sort of thing that should have been prioritised in the merger, you would have thought.
It’s absolutely true that the programme was, in many ways, the opposite to The Context. Extended intelligent debates rather than political soundbites and faux-analysis.
The stated reason for axing Dateline London was that it was too expensive and they wanted to invest the money in other areas of output. Now we are getting an extra hour of The Context, that really doesn’t add up.
It’s a great shame, and the programme fitted so well on both the BBC NC and BBC WN. The sort of thing that should have been prioritised in the merger, you would have thought.
It’s absolutely true that the programme was, in many ways, the opposite to The Context. Extended intelligent debates rather than political soundbites and faux-analysis.