Originally posted by amateur51
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Preston's main point was about the cuts to local radio news. Yesterday I tuned in to 12 local radio stations. Eleven were offering some sort of easy listening/pop music (including Bollywood on one); the twelfth had some kind of speech programme which I had difficulty in identifying. This morning I only had the heart to listen to two, which had a cheery mix of easy listening and a quiz/phone-in. The news snippets were read in a stumbling, amateurish way which gave the impression the newsreaders hadn't a clue what they were reading about.
It makes one weep (almost) that an intelligent commentator like Preston thinks this is in any way more valuable (just checked: there are 40 separate BBC local radio stations listed on the RAJAR site - cost last year £115m, excluding the national services for Scotland, Wales and N Ireland) than a single station covering the arts.
(As to the letter, I feel slightly sheepish at perhaps implying that jazz, world, arts and drama are adequately covered by R3, but they are covered.)
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