BBC cuts: Times item today

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:25:47 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Cut what, hint, jpgs are not textual.

Here are the headline and the first two patagraphs:

BBC could close TV channel at night in effort to make 20% licence-freeze
cuts.

The BBC is considering swingeing cuts to late-night programming on BBC
One or BBC Two, which could lead to one of the channels going off air
overnight, the corporation’s Director-General warned yesterday.

Mark Thompson said that television programmes shown between 10.35pm and
6am, when many potential viewers are asleep, cost the broadcaster more
than £150 million a year to produce.

Endquote.

The Daily Mail had a similar article about it at:
http://tinyurl.com/6bnvz5u

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:15:28 +0000, Mark Carver wrote:

and Mark Thomson appears to be constructing a coffin for BBC LR.

Do you think "there is something of the night about him"?

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:16:04 +0000, Mark wrote:

The BBC local radio station near here broadcasts exactly the same kind
of crap as the commercial stations and you can hardly tell them apart -
crap pop music and stupid DJs talking drivel.

This latter point "talking drivel" is particularly noticeable during
the breakfast time shows. At one time, BBC local radio produced informative,
interesting, and relevant breakfast news programs.

Now these shows consist almost entirely of a man and a woman making
silly jokes about the fluff that was on TV the night before with
no direct relevance to local current affairs.

There was a time for example when BBC Radio Sheffield broadcast the
proceedings of Sheffield City Council on a regular basis. Now local
politics is almost completely ignored on BBC local radio stations.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:34:32 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 20:13:45h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

The BBC has a duty to provide output that entertains all licence payers,
both high-brow and low-brow.

Which it does most effectively for the latter in the form of Eastenders,
Casualty, The One Show, Homes Under the Hammer, Britain's Empty Homes,
Cash in the Attic, Bargain Hunt, Escape to the Country, and
"Would I Lie To You?" to name just a few examples.

In fact, most of the schedule of BBC-1 network.

Not to mention BBC3

programming for post-operative brain donors

On Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 14:58:29h +0000, Albert Ross wrote:

Not to mention BBC3

The digital TV station which is not afraid to try something new,
and offers helpful and practical advice to those with social problems.

Mondays at 21:00h, a show designed for those considering polygamy --

http://www.bbc.co.UK/programmes/b00z86ym

Why polygamy -- the answer is in the title --
"women" plural not "a women" singular.

Seems like Islamization by the back door, ne c'est pas?

Who can possibly claim that the BBC does not actively engage
in social engineering?

J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 21:10:15h +0000, Charles explained:

The BBC started local radio before the commercial stations appeared

Long before in fact: 2LO in the City of Westminster, 5IT in Birmingham,
2ZY in Manchester, 5WA in Caerdydd, and 5SC in Glasgow.

But did these stations every carry commercials?
Did they have local programming or were they simply line fed from London?

Brian Gaff wrote:
Cut what, hint, jpgs are not textual.

Brian

Sorry Brian.

Tried to OCR it but for some reason it came out garbled. I think the
scan was too poor, and of course I've lost the original now.

Bill

Mark wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:43:06 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

who is doing the competing? The BBC started local radio before the
commercial stations appeared

And anyway BBC local radio doesn't compete in an real sense with local
commercial stations. The audiences are very different and there isn't
much overlap.

The BBC local radio station near here broadcasts exactly the same kind
of crap as the commercial stations and you can hardly tell them apart
- crap pop music and stupid DJs talking drivel. The only difference
is the adverts. I would say they are in direct competition.
That's interesting. BBC Sheffield broadcasts a lot of speech programmes
which are spoilt by the fact they play pop music every now and then.

Bill

Brian Gaff wrote:
Cut what, hint, jpgs are not textual.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...ng?INTCMP=SRCH

BugBear

On Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 17:05:55h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Did they have local programming

They must have, because the BBC National Programme did not come into
service until August 21st 1927, when 5GB Daventry came on the air.

Admittedly these stations did become more regional in their outlook
as their content was rebroadcast by daughter stations when these
came on air eg 2FL Sheffield, 2LS Kingston-Upon-Hull, 2LV Liverpool
carrying 2MT Manchester and ??? Edinburgh carrying 5SC Glasgow.

Listeners in Aberdeen however were privileged to have their own
locally produced material throughout the period from 2BD until
the inception of the Scottish National Service inaugurated soon
after the BBC National Programme came on the air.

or were they simply line fed from London?

From what I understand [corrections requested] "line feeding" did
not happen until a long time afterwards, as the daughter stations
rebroadcast their programs from their off air received signal.