[London Lite]

Through considering everyone pays the same license fee shouldn’t all age groups be equally covered by the BBC?

Well that will be the argument. Of course you could argue all the other age groups have commercial radio stations targeted at them in addition to a BBC service. I guess in reality the argument here is BBC Local stations in England at least should be catering for the older market, but I think that’s going increasingly younger too.

Yes, LR is also being programmed as a 'Radio 2 Lite' and is itself going through drastic changes with increased networking being introduced this year.

It's not just radio, the BBC when they publish local stories have to link to local newspaper websites and also share local democracy reporters with newspaper groups so it's not considered anti-competitive.

Back to radio and one of the reasons why BBC LR stations don't have full websites and just a link to the radio stream and schedule is also due to competition fears on a local level.