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To: British Broadcasting Corporation
Keep BBC Local Radio in England “local”.
We want the BBC to commit to:
1 Provide local programming between the hours of 6am to 10pm.
2 Drop the proposal of a networked late show across England and continue with existing regional late shows.
3 Commit to returning the specialist programmes that existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why is this important?
Over the last few years communities across the UK have lost their local commercial stations which have in effect been replaced by national stations with bare bones local opt outs at breakfast.
BBC are now the main provider of truly local radio across the UK, providing news and information relevant to your local area, specialist music programmes, and programmes that cater for minority audiences. It seems when cutbacks are made at the BBC local services always seem to be hit first. Sadly the current proposals seem to be drastically eroding the local service and the fear is that over time this important service will disappear all together.
