BBC treating the English as second-class citizens once again. Scotland and Wales get an abundance of local content from the Beeb, while England gets shoestring-budget local news, dirt cheap radio, and fuck all else, and they’re even coming for that.
I do wonder, who at the BBC is making these decisions on behalf of England, about the provision of English services to the people of England?
>**Rhodri Talfan Davies**, director of Nations, said: “These are ambitious and far-reaching proposals to grow the value we deliver to local audiences everywhere.
Says it all, really.
I mean, they could also stop with the big budget flops they’ve peddled out over the years.
I love the Beeb, it is an institution. But their drama and comedy output could be better; they have poured oodles of dosh into some second-rate programming.
Radio is niche, and will always be trimmed to save dosh. It has been a slowly dying art form since the ’90s.
However radio aside, for every Peaky Blinders, there’s a Jonathan Strange, for every Call the Midwife, there’s a Mrs. Brown’s Boys.
They do piss a lot of shit on the wall and whilst Dr. Who is a success beyond measure, some of the stuff they’ve produced aside has just been incredibly shit.
The reality of a fixed license fee for years, while literally every single other cost has gone up. Something has to give unfortunately.
Can they get rid of Chris Evans. Id start paying for a tv licence if theyd just shut that prick up!
If you don’t agree with it, stop paying for it
Its never been easier
This makes me sad. It continues this country’s belief that local content is far less important than national. But I’m sanguine about it. The BBC has an enormous pool of content that it can draw from to continue providing a high standard of broadcasting to those who appreciate it.
What bothers me most about this is that the government has positioned the BBC in such a way that it has choice but to have to go down this route. By continually starving the BBC, by threatening it time and time again, it has to keep shrinking, to stop being able to offer the best broadcasting to us all.
Is the BBC perfect? Of course not. But it is one of the greatest cultural artefacts this country has to offer. People around the world look to the BBC as a cornerstone of broadcasting integrity, and rightly so. It provides a baseline of expected quality in this country. Imagine how terrible ITV would be if it didn’t have to compare itself. Imagine the same of all those Heart stations that are now essentially a national broadcaster.
They already used the pandemic as an excuse to wreck it – doubling the length of shows, getting rid of vast swathes of presenters and playing the same show out on multiple stations.
They already got rid of local commentaries where possible, so to declare ‘live sports programming won’t be affected’ after they already gutted it is a cunt’s trick.
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BBC treating the English as second-class citizens once again. Scotland and Wales get an abundance of local content from the Beeb, while England gets shoestring-budget local news, dirt cheap radio, and fuck all else, and they’re even coming for that.
I do wonder, who at the BBC is making these decisions on behalf of England, about the provision of English services to the people of England?
>**Rhodri Talfan Davies**, director of Nations, said: “These are ambitious and far-reaching proposals to grow the value we deliver to local audiences everywhere.
Says it all, really.
I mean, they could also stop with the big budget flops they’ve peddled out over the years.
I love the Beeb, it is an institution. But their drama and comedy output could be better; they have poured oodles of dosh into some second-rate programming.
Radio is niche, and will always be trimmed to save dosh. It has been a slowly dying art form since the ’90s.
However radio aside, for every Peaky Blinders, there’s a Jonathan Strange, for every Call the Midwife, there’s a Mrs. Brown’s Boys.
They do piss a lot of shit on the wall and whilst Dr. Who is a success beyond measure, some of the stuff they’ve produced aside has just been incredibly shit.
The reality of a fixed license fee for years, while literally every single other cost has gone up. Something has to give unfortunately.
Can they get rid of Chris Evans. Id start paying for a tv licence if theyd just shut that prick up!
If you don’t agree with it, stop paying for it
Its never been easier
This makes me sad. It continues this country’s belief that local content is far less important than national. But I’m sanguine about it. The BBC has an enormous pool of content that it can draw from to continue providing a high standard of broadcasting to those who appreciate it.
What bothers me most about this is that the government has positioned the BBC in such a way that it has choice but to have to go down this route. By continually starving the BBC, by threatening it time and time again, it has to keep shrinking, to stop being able to offer the best broadcasting to us all.
Is the BBC perfect? Of course not. But it is one of the greatest cultural artefacts this country has to offer. People around the world look to the BBC as a cornerstone of broadcasting integrity, and rightly so. It provides a baseline of expected quality in this country. Imagine how terrible ITV would be if it didn’t have to compare itself. Imagine the same of all those Heart stations that are now essentially a national broadcaster.
They already used the pandemic as an excuse to wreck it – doubling the length of shows, getting rid of vast swathes of presenters and playing the same show out on multiple stations.
They already got rid of local commentaries where possible, so to declare ‘live sports programming won’t be affected’ after they already gutted it is a cunt’s trick.