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Committee slams BBC 'taking a torch' over local news expansion, advertising and radio cuts
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21/03/2024
The Culture, Media and Sport committee grill the BBC over its expansion plans into local news plus a series of radio cuts.
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Thank you very much. I do have a problem with this. It feels to me like
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You've taken a torch to what is a very delicate ecosystem of local news and current affairs
00:08
Bear with me as I kind of set out my thinking on this
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Okay, see what you've done is taken away very valuable local radio coverage from some of our most vulnerable constituents people
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People who treasure it people for whom it's a lifeline. It's a friend. It's a
00:27
Huge asset to their lives and you know and in doing so, you know, according to the radar figures your
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Local radio listening is down 14% year-on-year at the same time
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You very proudly talk about your
00:41
expansion into local online news
00:44
By rolling out your 34 websites and 130 more jobs to deliver more regional news
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You're you're you're delivering in areas that are already covered by a lot of local commercial independent publishers
00:58
like, you know in my area the Portsmouth News which have a
01:01
website
01:03
Who are already struggling because of the decline of local print because of the line of local print media or print media across the board
01:10
So
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After stroke you're effectively blowing up the services the local radio services that some
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People absolutely treasure you're undermining the financial
01:23
financial
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viability of some of our local independent
01:28
publishers and now
01:31
In the press yesterday. It talks about the BBC's proposing to carry advertising on some of its radio
01:37
Services so effectively now coming out in competition with some local radio provision
01:43
Tim talk to me about this because it just seems to me like you know
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What you've done is you've started picking away a very delicate ecosystem and your role as a public service
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Broadcaster is at one stroke seemingly trying to undermine every other aspect of the local
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News and public affairs which current affairs which we all value so dearly
02:03
Indeed, and I think they're all very fair considerations. I
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think
02:10
Any changes are very sensitive. This is very precious and
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We don't estimate that I would margin push back on blowing up
02:17
You know
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We're keeping all of our 39 services if you look at the I think the numbers are a bit before the change
02:22
But we'll see how this goes. I
02:24
Think you know, it has been a big decision to keep all 39 stations keep
02:29
You know output local from six to two where by far the majority of the listening is and then you know
02:36
We're not the afternoons are still good radio shows and we're doing 20 of them across the land in a way now
02:41
I know I don't I'm not underestimating the enormity of this but the idea we're blowing up the ecosystem
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Or my vision has been to collapse local radio
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It's just not true the vast majority of our money
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You know in these goes and you know in us in our local offices goes to and will remain it stays in
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linear services
03:00
Broadcast television book and but the idea that we and then we get to the second point
03:04
So look, I think we've got to watch how we go
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It's incredibly sensitive and if people read it and understandably concerned, well, this is just a thin end of the wedge. I understand that
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