"Local and regional services in England provide something unique for audiences that can otherwise be neglected by the mainstream media. The BBC cannot afford to get these changes wrong. So we have asked the management to look again at the planned cuts to local radio....
To see if they can find more money to protect the local identity of services:
To scale back the plans for local stations to share their afternoon content with their neighbours, although we accept that in some cases that might still be the best option
To ensure they have an adequately staffed newsroom
And to give them a bit more freedom to protect some of their more specialist and content out of peak, whether it be rugby league or specialist music We have also asked for a re-think of the plans for merging regional current affairs programmes in England into ‘super-regions’. We want to see a plan that will preserve the regional integrity and investigative quality of this programming, which no other broadcaster provides".
And here's the chart of public comments on "sharing" across local radio, from the Trust's Interim report.
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