Monday, January 6, 2025

What's going on ?

With a reasonable amount of warning, you might have expected an enhanced service from BBC Local Radio yesterday on 'the weather'.  Instead, the news service went from local to regional to England to the UK, as the Salford-based CNS news team couldn't provide; so stations had to use Radio 2 news.

 

Claire ran through from 2pm to 10pm. At 10pm she led with the weather, telling listeners there was disruption in Cumbria and Lancashire, which will have presumably re-assured listeners to Radio Cumbria and Radio Lancashire. 

This morning at 6.09, on Today, Nick Robinson exhorted me to turn to my local radio; I'd missed their 6am bulletin, which, on review, was quite detailed. I tried the Sussex pages of BBC News Online - the lead story was the re-development of Piddinghoe Village Hall "updated 13 minuted ago".  The story "Heavy rain and floods cause disruption in Sussex" was 14 hours old - and, at 8.30am, had still not been updated. 

 

1 comment:

  1. Shameful. When the history of the final days of the BBC as a publicly-funded corporation is written, the downgrading of radio in general and local radio in particular will feature as a prominent cause of public disillusionment with paying the licence fee. The idiots running News cannot or will not see that live radio is the best news medium there is because TV and smartphones both require looking at a screen. Bad weather is always a top news story; for local audiences it is often crucial. This is the very pinnacle of what Local Radio does - or used to do. Shameful.

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