The BBC has made some changes at the margin to its savings plan for Local Radio in England, and now talks about 'moving forward'. So nearly everyone still shares programming after 2pm, but some get fewer or different partners.
Bristol and Somerset will now work as a pair, as will Gloucester & Wiltshire. Previously all four were conjoined. Solent gets back its own afternoons, with Berkshire and Oxford still sharing; previously they formed a trio. There are six changes to weekend groupings, for example, re-clustering Cumbria with northwest stations.
How much this reflects lobbying by MPs is not clear, nor are the financial consequences. The man in charge, Jason Horton, can not have been surprised that his plans have produced 300 applications for redundancy, as he cuts 139 local radio posts from his overall staffing of around 2,000.
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