BBC local radio shows will be replaced after 2pm - 139 jobs expected to go

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BBC confirms local radio shows will be replaced with 139 jobs expected to go

The broadcaster is shaking up the way it delivers news with the loss of many local shows
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BBC: local radio shows will be replaced after 2pm with 139 jobs expected to go​

The broadcaster is shaking up the way it delivers news with the loss of many local shows
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The BBC has confirmed its plans to slash the local output of regional radio stations with 139 jobs expected to be lost at BBC radio stations across the country.

There had been widespread outcry after the announcement was leaked yesterday before many staff at local stations had even been told their future was now uncertain. The BBC has now confirmed the cuts after a meeting with staff and union leaders.

The changes will see local programming at the 39 local stations pooled into 10 shows broadcast to a wider area from 2pm each weekday. It means shows tailored to Humberside will now be lumped in with those from other nearby areas between 2pm and 6am each day.
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The BBC plans are as follows:
  • All 39 BBC Local Radio stations will continue with their own dedicated local programming from 6am to 2pm on weekdays. Since 2020 all local stations have broadcast three daytime programmes on weekdays (6am to 6pm), this will now reduce to two on many of our smaller stations.
  • Across the week, all live sports programming will be maintained across all local stations.
  • Local news bulletin services will be protected across the day on all local stations.
  • After 2pm on weekdays, the BBC will produce 18 afternoon programmes across England – with a number of local stations sharing programming. Additional investment will support the production of these new programmes.
  • There will be ten local programmes across England between 6-10pm on weekdays; across the day on Saturday; and on Sunday mornings. These programmes will serve areas that broadly mirror our existing local television areas. This is in addition to any live sports programming which will continue to be broadcast locally.
  • A national ‘all-England’ programme will be launched after 10pm across the week and on Sunday afternoons and evenings. Again, this will be in addition to any live sports programming which will continue to be broadcast locally.
The BBC said that overall, local staffing in England is expected to reduce by around 48 posts – this amounts to a total reduction of 2%. There will be around 131 additional roles across local news services, with around 139 fewer roles in audio teams as greater programme sharing is introduced.
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As part of the plans the BBC will also create 11 investigative reporting teams across the country to provide more analysis of key local issues across TV, radio and online. To support the new plan, the BBC will create multi-media news operations across the country – bringing its local news teams together across radio, tv and online for the first time.

Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of Nations, says: “These are ambitious and far-reaching proposals to grow the value we deliver to local audiences everywhere. The plans will help us connect with more people in more communities right across England - striking a better balance between our broadcast and online services - and ensuring we remain a cornerstone of local life for generations to come.”

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Looks like another example of resources going to the centre in an organisation in the UK.

People on Teesside pay in part for local radio, not Radio Leeds or Radio Newcastle.
 
Havent the tfm guys suffered enough, theyve been through this already when their jobs were taken away from them

Gary phillipson might be ok, but scott makin and antony collins must be looking over their shoulders yet again
 
£1.50 per year times 600k population gives a revenue of £900k - would that cover the running of BBC Radio Tees?

3p per week peanuts isn't it?

And still they want to cut it!

I suppose they need to reduce local radio in places like Teesside and Cumbria to pay Premier League clubs.
 
Redwurzel said:
£1.50 per year times 600k population gives a revenue of £900k - would that cover the running of BBC Radio Tees?

3p per week peanuts isn't it?

And still they want to cut it!

I suppose they need to reduce local radio in places like Teesside and Cumbria to pay Premier League clubs.
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Its not just about BBC Tees, its about all local radio.

£13 increase to the licence fee in 14 years, during which time the competition has increased dramatically from Netflix/Amazon/Disney etc and has taken on World Service and been made to take on over 75s costs.

If the Beeb stopped showing MOTD (as you seem to be insinuating they should) I imagine a fair few folk would be unhappy about that too.
 
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Norfolkred1 said:
They could pay per view that crap soap and strictly to see what a waste of money they are.
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They probably will have to post 2027, unless Labour have other ideas. That said, Strictly has attracted very good viewing figures for 20 years, so it hasn't been a complete disaster. Everything has a shelf life though.
 
Norfolkred1 said:
They could pay per view some of the crap soaps and strictly to see what a waste of money they are.
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BBC Norfolk is proposed to combine with Suffolk, Cambridge and Three Counties Radio.
Thats "local" isnt it: from a few miles east of Oxford across to Sheringham, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich
Thats just over 150 miles West to East!
Keep it local?
Oh yea
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r00fie1 said:
BBC Norfolk is proposed to combine with Suffolk, Cambridge and Three Counties Radio.
Thats "local" isnt it: from a few miles east of Oxford across to Sheringham, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich
Thats just over 150 miles West to East!
Keep it local?
Oh yea
(n)
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I left the darts on the radio station area in 2017 mate, back in the land of the lemon top and Parmo fella.
 
atypical_boro said:
Its not just about BBC Tees, its about all local radio.

£13 increase to the licence fee in 14 years, during which time the competition has increased dramatically from Netflix/Amazon/Disney etc and has taken on World Service and been made to take on over 75s costs.

If the Beeb stopped showing MOTD (as you seem to be insinuating they should) I imagine a fair few folk would be unhappy about that too.
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Its the amount in relative terms that gets me.

Around half of Gary Lineker's wages would pay for the whole of Radio Tees?

We are getting more and more like France in the 1780s. The poor fo Paris are now the poor of places like Teesside. I saw a film on Saturday in Richmond upon Thames and it was a completely different world to visiting Middlesbrough.
 
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BBC Norfolk is proposed to combine with Suffolk, Cambridge and Three Counties Radio.
Thats "local" isnt it: from a few miles east of Oxford across to Sheringham, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich
Thats just over 150 miles West to East!
Keep it local?
Oh yea
(n)
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We have lost our local Evening News

Our version of Look East currently comes from Cambridge, from December it will come from Norwich.

That means towns like Peterborough, Cambridge, Northampton, Bedford, Luton and MK all having their news output from Norwich - which is miles away.

On the human cost of things they have made all the staff in that newsroom redundant the week before Xmas.

Only I listen to BBC local radio for Sport. I listen to Cambs for Posh coverage and Tees (via the app) for Boro. Find it incredibly dull but then i doubt its aimed at the likes Of me.
 
Aet290204 said:
We have lost our local Evening News

Our version of Look East currently comes from Cambridge, from December it will come from Norwich.

That means towns like Peterborough, Cambridge, Northampton, Bedford, Luton and MK all having their news output from Norwich - which is miles away.

On the human cost of things they have made all the staff in that newsroom redundant the week before Xmas.

Only I listen to BBC local radio for Sport. I listen to Cambs for Posh coverage and Tees (via the app) for Boro. Find it incredibly dull but then i doubt its aimed at the likes Of me.
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Does it matter where its actually broadcast from though? I get that smaller towns are going to get less coverage generally, but I don't see why it matters whether that it is broadcast from Norwich or Peterborough, if you live in Milton Keynes for example.
 
atypical_boro said:
Does it matter where its actually broadcast from though? I get that smaller towns are going to get less coverage generally, but I don't see why it matters whether that it is broadcast from Norwich or Peterborough, if you live in Milton Keynes for example.
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It’s the lack of coverage for me. I’ve no idea where the journalists and camera crews are based but if it’s the godforsaken outpost that is Norwich it’s a lot longer to get to Milton Keynes from Norwich than Cambridge. Norwich is a pig to get to/from.
 
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