Does this get around somebody in Blackburn not being interested in Liverpool news, someone in Derby not being intersted in Nottingham etc.
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:29 +0100 Andrew Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: >Well each one would have a budget of £5m by that estimate. It's >possible, but only if that included satellite and internet >distribution. > >Terrestrial just wouldn't be possible with the current transmitter >network. > > >________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth > Sent: 18 June 2009 10:49 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] The Final Digital Britain report > > > The think I have the most of an issue with is the funding of a >regional news programme for ITV. > > If you are going to spend £150m (say) of BBC money, it would be >better to break up the BBC regional news service into a network of >BBC local news channels. > > For a start it would make sense to supplement BBC London with BBC >Birmingham and BBC Manchester. This would mean BBC West Midlands >and BBC North West becomes a "county" service. > > The BBC Scotland service could be split into an urban "central >belt" service for Edinburgh and Glasgow and a "highland and >islands" service (cf. "Grampian region") > > The BBC North West service could split into three, one for >"Tyne", one for "Tees" and one for "Cumbria". > > BBC North could be BBC West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford etc), BBC >South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and BBC North Yorkshire (another >"county" service). > > The BBC South region could split as Meridian did, with one for >the Hampshire end and another for Sussex. > > And so on. There are 60.9 million people in the UK, so 30 >regional news channels serving a population of about 2 million >each would be "local" news. > > It would CLEARLY be better for there to be ONE news programme >with LOCAL news for everyone, than a choice of TWO news programmes >that are REGIONAL. > > Any analysis would show that people would benefit more for news >of a more local nature, than a choice of two lots of news that >will be about somewhere that is not local. > > The idea of preserving regional news on ITV is nostalgia and not >an analysis of what would benefit the public. > > You could clearly get 30 x BBC Local News 24-hour channels from >£150m a year, couldn't you? > > > > 2009/6/16 Ian Forrester <[email protected]> > > > The Final Digital Britain Report >http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx > > So what do people think? Time to leave the country or dig a > hole >and stick our heads into it? > > Cheers, > > Ian Forrester > > This e-mail is: []secret; []private; [x]public > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage, BBC R&D > Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ > email: [email protected] > work: +44 (0)1612444063 | mob: +44 (0)7711913293 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To >unsubscribe, please visit >http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- >archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and >switchover advice, since 2002 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
