Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 14:28, Gavin Johnson <gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
The bit that worries me is .. "a pledge not ever to produce services at a
'more local' level than is currently the case".
because
(a) 'not ever' seems a bit greedy, particularly as
(b) I can't see there has been much interest in local by commercial media
this goes back to the old 'will a commercial replacement fill the
gap?' argument, and I did allude to it to an extent in that post: my
guess is 'no, it won't', and I don't think much of that's the BBC's
fault, really. the marketplace is changing, and the commercial
environment is also changing. localised content is a very different
game to ten - or even five - years ago. given that, I'd err more
towards the BBC providing such services so that *somebody* will, even
if that's under a relatively tight remit so that feature-creep doesn't
have a negative effect upon commercial services in related areas.
If Radio licences from Ofcom weren't so extortionate then we might see
more community stations providing local content.
The US has so many non-profit radio stations that it is hard to see why
it is worth making permanent broadcast licences such commercial
challenge to get.
I mean WBAI New York[1] is probably one of the best non-profit stations
out there but there are literally droves of them. Why we don't seem to
want the UK to have this is beyond me... :-/
Cheers,
Tim
[1] well worth checking out: http://www.wbai.org/
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