On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote: > East Midlands Counties (Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland) > Norfolk and Suffolk > Cambridge and Bedford
Whilst a more local news service is the solution I think that some of your breakdowns will need more thought. I live in Peterborough and the sensible area for news would probably go down to Huntingdon, March and Chatteris in the south, up to past Spalding in the North, out to past Wisbech in the east, and west as far as Oakham and past Oundle. Ideally a local news service should cover that area - I shouldn't have to switch between the three local stations you've suggested (and I've quoted) to get the right coverage of things going on in my area. So what is needed is indeed a number or news stations, but also have the areas overlap and a culture and process of local stations sharing news gathering, and even VT packages, with neighbouring news stations. There should be no need for Norfolk/Suffolk to go out and film an interview at the western edge of their area, and then the next day for a Cambridgeshire station to go and repeat the interview because it is at the eastern edge of their area. -- Andy Leighton => [email protected] "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ - 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]/
