28-04-2022, 08:59 AM
(27-04-2022, 08:33 PM)Keith Wrote: The timing of this does seem to coincide with today's news that the government was looking for more ways to help people with the cost of living crisis. If I was being cynical I'd suggest this might also be an attempt to prevent any further cuts to the licence fee.
I dare say if it wasn't for national politics they might consider closing the BBC Scotland channel. After all that channel has some original programming and requires an additional channel number & resources on platforms. Arguably if it were to close they could reintroduce BBC 2 Scotland, a promise to make Scottish programming more prominent, and maybe have a Scottish Six.
Radio stations such as 4 Extra are already essentially an archive service. Similarly BBC Two weekdays in the mornings already simulcasts with the News Channel. I dare say for small savings they might be tempted to look at trying to automate the likes of 1Xtra and 6 Music.
Why auotmate 1Xtra and 6 Music? They are two stations that you could argue are doing things that can't be found in the commercial sector so should carry on as they are. Also don't these stations have the lowest budget of the BBC's live radio services? Why not cut budgets for the likes of Radio 3 or Radio 4?