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The operations may be big, but they’re not at all local. Which is surely the point.

Depends on what you want. I'd say those three HQs offer more to their respective areas than the BBC English Regions are allowed to do. It's been said that BBC English regional news & LR is a good incubator for talent, well surely having numerous TV and radio stations, more scheduling flexibility on BBC1/2, local orchestras etc takes that to an even greater level - even if it does mean Tenby or Aberystwyth don't have a BBC local radio station. How could someone like Limmy (for example) get anywhere in England if they weren't in London or Manchester? He got commissioned by BBC Scotland however.

and in terms of language - Cornish gets some very token effort on BBC Radio Cornwall & nothing on Spotlight, whereas Wales, Scotland and NI have entire stations dedicated to theirs.