Tagged with: Local radio
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Feedback: Local Radio, Science and Home Planet
Roger Bolton
Picture by [email protected] I have, of course, heard of win win situations, but this week's decision by the BBC Trust to ask (ie order) the Executive to reverse most of the cuts it planned in local radio looks like a win, win, win situation. It's a win for local radio supporters wh...
Feedback: Local Radio and Radio 4's schedule changes
Roger Bolton
Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jo Kendall, Graeme Garden and David Hatch (Producer) from "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", 1968 Controllers of Radio 4 do not change their schedules lightly. Their listeners tend to want to keep what they have and are doubtful whether any ch...
Local radio cuts and having the Last Word. It's Feedback
Roger Bolton
Radio Leicester's team of station assistants, ready for the start of Radio Leicester on 8 November1967 It was rather lonely in the Feedback studio this week. I was surrounded by empty chairs. We, and many listeners, wanted to talk about the proposed cuts to the BBC's English local radio...
Feedback: Delivering Quality First and local radio
Roger Bolton
When I was growing up in Carlisle in the years after the war (no, not the Boer one) there was no local radio anywhere, let alone in that somewhat isolated city, 300 miles from London and eight miles south of the Scottish border. We got our TV news from BBC Newcastle and later from Border Tele...
