Regional News Question
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV Digital Britain - local TV news question
If the £150m of the BBC licence fee is to be spent on regional news, would you prefer it to:
a) Support the current ITV regional news service so you can have two REGIONAL news programmes to watch at 6:30pm
b) Scrap ITV regional news, make the BBC regions smaller and provide both a 6:30pm programme and a 24-hour local news channel, with the following local areas (approx 2 million people in each):
- 501-Bristol, Bath and Western Today
- 502-Cambridge and Bedford Today
- 503-Cumbria and Northwest Counties Today
- 504-Devon and Cornwall Today
- 505-Dorset and Wiltshire Today
- 506-Durham and Northumberland Today
- 507-East Midlands Counties Today (Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland)
- 508-Edinburgh and Glasgow Today (Perth, Dundee)
- 509-Essex and Herts Today
- 510-Highlands and Islands Today
- 511-Kent, East Sussex and Brighton Today
- 512-Leicester/Nottingham/Derby Today
- 513-London* Today
- 517-M4 Corridor Today(Oxford, Reading, Slow, Woking)
- 518-Manchester Today
- 519-Merseyside and Blackpool Today
- 520-Norfolk and Suffolk Today
- 521-North and Rural Wales Today
- 522-Northern Ireland Today
- 523-Rural Scotland Today
- 524-South Wales Coast ("M5") Today (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Rhondda)
- 525-Southampton and Hampshire Today
- 526-Surrey and West Sussex Today
- 527-Tyne and Wear Today
- 528-Herefords/Shrops/Saff-shires Today
- 529-Stoke/Warws/Woucest-shires Today
- 530-West Midlands (Birmingham) Metropolitan Today
- 531-West Yorkshire Today (Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax etc)
- 532-South Yorkshire Today
- 533-York and North Yorkshire Today
- 534-Hull, East Riding and North Lincs Today
The general idea would be each Freeview transmitter would carry 1 to 4 local programmes, dependent on the area, with all services being on satellite and cable.
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