Tasty fodder for conspiracy theorists this morning - yesterday's edition of Radio 4's Feedback is no longer available on BBC Sounds. It featured Jason Horton, Director of Production, BBC Local (characterised by some as Toby's Tramway Controller to Rhodri Talfan Davies' Sir Topham Hatt) defending his proposals to move BBC Local Radio regional from 2pm weekdays and most of the weekend.
The programme is due for a repeat at 8pm on Sunday - will it get that far ?
Sunday 0830 update: it's on Sounds now. In answer to former Local Radio manager Liam McCarthy's suggestion that local online content could be massively enhanced by allowing current staff rights to input, Jason Horton noted that the re-investment was also in investigative journalism (by implication, something that current local radio journalists COULD NOT POSSIBLY DO).
The management's aversion to multi-skilling and re-training is culturally embedded. This from the BBC's Head of Technology Forecasting, R&D, herself retrained from a BBC regional editor.
Hard to believe that some 20 years on, people are still arguing that in a multi media org, an adequate online service can be provided simply by taking crumbs off the TV and Radio table and putting those stories online. Having lived this for many years it doesn't work (1/3)
— laura_ellis (@laura_ellis) May 10, 2023
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