One fully-formed story

Meanwhile, in commercial radio, Ofcom continues to demonstrate all the steely resolve of their fellow regulators ORR, Ofgem, the FCA etc etc.

In a post entitled "Localness guidelines", we learn that they're being relaxed, so that commercial groups can, if they want (and they do) syndicate breakfast shows across swathes of the UK. This, presumably is in response to threatening mobs of listeners across Cornwall chanting "What do we want ? Breakfast shows from Southampton !".

Don't worry though - there's an Ofcom quota to keep your breakfast news REALLY local.

"We would always expect each enhanced daytime bulletin to feature more than simply headlines, and to include at the very least one fully-formed local news story, and normally more than this, alongside national stories. In cases where stations are sharing their local hours within an approved area (see notes on co-location and programme sharing, below), and are broadcasting the same news bulletin across more than one licensed area, at least one of the local stories in each bulletin needs to be directly relevant to listeners in each of the licensed areas. "