No news, so far, on a date for Emma Hardy MP to meet BBC DG Tim Davie about local radio cuts. The MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle is a savvy social media operative, and had been pushing for the meeting for six months. So Tim needs to be at his most persuasive to fend her off - or perhaps he's taking a moment to decide if there's something he can offer.
Meanwhile BBC1's most popular tv show, the 6.30pm regional bulletin, is once again threatened by strike action - this time the NUJ have called a two-day stoppage on 7th and 8th June. They're also contemplating a motion of 'no confidence' in local radio management, surely gilding the lily.
* Money doesn't seem to be a problem for the tv side of the house. A team of tv designers, directors and construction workers are moving across the BBC Regions, installing giant, sideways-up, tv screens for the presenters to stand next to, like Huw and Sophie in the BBC National Garage of News. Except, as an old tv news hand told me, going mini-me in the regions is never a good idea. "Giant" is relative, and big doesn't seem big when you turn a big screen through 90 degrees in a small room - think the end of a bus shelter, rather than an Egyptian-scale obelisk.
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