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@UndervaluedFM

10 months

One of the worst things about being a BBC Local Radio presenter now… the expectation that we’ll “sell” the new schedules as a good thing. As a presenter, the relationship with my listener comes first, and I’m not comfortable with misleading them or lying.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

If your BBC Local Radio station has ever: told you something vital, been a friend in the dark, helped your cause, stuck it to a politician, made sense of mad times, cheered you down Wembley Way, made you smile… please speak up. The changes ARE happening and they WILL stop it all

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

So many wonderful broadcasters signing off from BBC Local Radio. People who ooze their craft & have honed it over years, while airwaves elsewhere find ever more room for TV names with many talents but no idea of the myriad and nuanced skills required to be masterful on the radio

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@UndervaluedFM

11 months

This from a listener to BBC Radio Tees. Public service broadcasting?

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

Steve Wright changed British radio, brightened lives, inspired more than 1 generation of broadcasters, taught many of us things we didn’t realise we were learning, and worked damn hard at his craft. Because he cared about, and loved, radio. Loved his listener. Thank you Wrighty

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

BBC Local Radio teams are there for you every day, to champion, challenge, celebrate, question. In floods, snow, strife & jubilation. All through lockdown, on mad mornings and long lonely nights. Not there today. Fighting to be there for you in the future #KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal

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@UndervaluedFM

10 months

This is what is being needlessly snatched away from people, thousands of them, who weren’t even extended the courtesy of being asked. Friends stolen. Best of everything Howie!

BBC Sheffield

@BBCSheffield

10 months

Radio legend @HowiePressman1 signs off for the last time 👏

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Seems every day I come on here yet another loved presenter is signing off. This is a whole cohort of skill, talent & experience lost perhaps forever. Lost to listeners, lost to communities, lost to broadcasting. Lost to mentor newcomers. Unforgivable.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

6 months

National TV promos for BBC Radio 2, starting with presenter saying “Hi there everybody”! Tell me you don’t understand radio without telling me you don’t understand radio… What happened?!

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

There’s so much bland, diluted, generic radio around, thanks to crumbling regulation allowing corporates to chase £ with banality. The BBC is supposed to serve the public when others won’t. That’s what BBC Local Radio does… truly unique. And being spaffed away. Unforgivable

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@UndervaluedFM

5 months

Can’t afford fully local radio any more, but the BBC can still stretch to this kind of public service broadcasting. So proud.

BBC Press Office

@bbcpress

5 months

☀️ Amanda and Alan are back and this time they're heading to sunny Spain for their biggest renovation project yet! Amanda & Alan's Spanish Job sees the duo take on a rambling, run down property in the province of Andalusia More info ➡️

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

8 months

This wk on BBCLR: Pop stars talking to Make A Difference winners. Soullessly edited. Stilted, scripted links, 1 hr of 1 artist’s songs, NO local station IDs. 9am! Loved local voices will be in the building! Yet again foisted upon teams by people who simply DON’T UNDERSTAND RADIO

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

And another one. Years of dedication and honed craft, lost by listeners, lost to those who need a mentor, lost for no good reason. Lost count now, but every one unforgivable

Melvyn Prior

@melvynprior

1 year

So here we are…after 32 years, my final week @bbcradioLincs Let’s make it a good one and enjoy every minute🙂🙂

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

May just be me, but increasing mood of resignation in BBC Local Radio. Every iota of fight deployed, every ally mobilised and all to no avail. They just don’t care. A U-turn, at least partial, will come after the event. But so much damage and hurt will already have been caused.

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

Only joined this platform to fight, so my presence looks constantly grumpy! But may I just wish you, whether a fellow broadcast professional or a fellow lover of radio, a truly Happy New Year!

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@UndervaluedFM

9 months

Piece on a regional afternoon show today… “Hansons Butchers, and the Horse and Trumpet next door, have donated hampers to a local school”. No place named. Not in the cue, not in the package, not in the back anno. IN WHAT WORLD is this Local Radio of any value to any community?

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

10 months

In my commercial days I remember a strategy to build on strong weekday listening figures was to focus on making weekends and evenings an equally consistent offer. The BBCLR idea seems to be weekends and evenings matter a lot less. They. Just. Don’t. Understand. Radio.

Nicky Horne, Esq.

@NickyHorne

10 months

The same ⁦ @BBCRadioLondon ⁩ staffer again ….

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

“the virtues of listening to your audience”. Boom is the station that proves radio instinct and experience work. Meanwhile the “leaders” at the BBC have neither, and listen to nobody. A joy to see Boom soar

BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

1 year

Great to wake up to this lovely piece about us in the Sunday Times today. We're so happy to have forsaken our retirements to create our station - and you make it all worthwhile.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

11 months

How do I nominate David for a knighthood…?

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

I have today written personally to each of the 12 directors on the BBC Board asking them to intervene on BBC Local given what I believe are Charter breaches in this process and its implementation.

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@UndervaluedFM

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Nicky Horne, Esq.

@NickyHorne

7 months

It’s personal: the reaction to Steve Wright’s death is proof of the power of radio

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Some of the most respected practitioners in radio, dozens of MPs, most professionals, an Archbishop, a Chief Constable, charities, unions, and most importantly LISTENERS say the BBC Local Radio cuts are plain wrong. Somewhere Tim Davie sits, fingers in ears, going “la la la!”

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

I’ve worked for many managers and programmers over the years. Some great, some less so. The best inspired me to become better, and would fight my corner even if we both know I’d messed up. The current top brass of BBC Local make us all feel sneered at, disposable and despised.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

7 months

BBC leadership are OBSESSED w streaming platforms. Hence spin-off radio services. Trouble is, commercial sector do this way BETTER so why try to compete? Just as “all the music you love” was always silly. BBCLR was never going to win on music. Why not focus on what they DONT do?!

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

6 months

I would argue BBC Local Radio has earned relationships of trust from listeners that exceed what almost any other part of the corporation can achieve. Often the very people the DG claims to be striving to reach. And they’ve squandered it with their idiocy

BBC Feedback

@BBCR4Feedback

6 months

“Many people trust their local news in a way that they don't trust their national news.” @Keir_Starmer last Thursday on @BBCFrontRow with @SamiraAhmedUK , discussing #LocalRadio in light of scheduling changes made last year. Listen here:

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

10 months

Great broadcasters like Howie deploy years of experience and craft to build thousands of individual intimate and LOYAL relationships for the station. Read the comments from listeners, multiply by the number of exiting presenters, and see how much loyalty the BBC are pissing away

BBC Sheffield

@BBCSheffield

10 months

Radio legend @HowiePressman1 signs off for the last time 👏

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

The problem with people thinking awful audience figures will make the BBC “leaders” realise they were wrong: they always expected it, and claim to be more interested in the people NOT listening to LR, but who will apparently flock to news online and the Sounds rail

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Not ashamed to say this made me cry. Every syllable resonates. These listeners trust me like a friend and I care about them. For me this might just be the single most brilliant of the brilliant things David has written on this

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

This one is from the heart. We shouldn't have to explain radio to the people at the BBC who are supposed to run it in our name. But, just in case - here are a few words from the people who really matter. BLOG

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

9 months

The scale of loss to listeners still shocks as you watch this. Criminal

Nicky Horne, Esq.

@NickyHorne

9 months

Staff @bbc LR spent last Christmas under threat of redundancy.This Christmas many have been forced out,fired,or taken VR,and for the 1st time many local stations have NO local shows at all. And yet MORE mangers have been appointed to manage less staff. Shameful isn’t it ?

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

One day in a fair world @DavidLloydRADIO will receive a knighthood for his championing of this issue. Please share this one far and wide…!

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

BBC management are proudly ignoring the will of listeners and Parliament on BBC local radio. It is time for @Ofcom to intervene - and it can. Here are some ideas.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Announcing late show changes (cack-handedly and insensitively as ever) has served to inform/remind folks that the BBC Local Radio cuts are not proposals, they’re very much happening. Great people lost already. Quality sacrificed. And for what? Detail still lacking. “Digital”…?

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

8 months

THIS! Who even knew there was ever any consultation? I and my colleagues had months of listeners asking where to make their views known. We were told to point them to the generic BBC complaints line. Thousands wanted to offer input but were denied

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

8 months

The consultations by @ofcom into modernising the BBC's Operating Licence have been poor. I had not realised quite how poor until studying every word. I believe the exercise was not compliant with Ofcom's own Consultation Principles. (Letter to Ofcom below)

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

11 months

“Those of us speaking out do not do so because we are BBC bashers. We do it because we support the BBC with a passion”

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

A BBC local radio listener wrote to me asking what she should do to stop the changes. It got me thinking. What can one do? Is the BBC now proving itself worryingly unaccountable? (More on this blog post, click the pic)

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

How about we crowdfund to commission a tv drama… Mr Lloyd vs Ofcom and Tim Davie…

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

7 months

Just THREE individuals wrote about BBC local radio in response to the major pan-BBC consultation, yet @Ofcom tells me the exercise was compliant with its Consultation Principles. Deep breath. I've written again. (Click below)

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

On Thursday NUJ members in BBC Local will walk out, fighting to save the precious service we believe in. We hate disrupting it, but needs must and the bigger the impact, the better. Please share with anyone who might be asked to be a guest, so they can make an informed choice

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

9 months

Exactly this. Time, care, hard work and love go into building an audience. It’s cultivated like any relationship. You can’t betray the trust earned by abandoning the listener, then pop back in a crisis and expect them to still be there.

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

9 months

This is exactly correct. Well done this weekend. But each listener has their own ups and downs in life - every day - when they need the friend they know by their side.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Exactly! Those who dreamed up this vandalism have NO plan for HOW to do a regional show on “Local” Radio. Seem to think generic packages, “what’s the best biscuit” phone-ins and the flawed playlist will satisfy the listener (because they have staggering contempt for the listener)

Paul Stainton

@PaulStainton

1 year

There are bound to be teething troubles but the bigger problem is the content in the new afternoon shows - all I heard after 5 yesterday on @BBCCambs were national stories

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

BBC Local leaders are acting like we make widgets. Instead of our loved and trusted widget shop in town, let’s get our widgets on Amazon and in the supermarkets. Radio isn’t widgets. Maybe I over-romanticise because I love it, but it’s so much more special and valuable than that.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

“this process has been painful and has taken its toll on both those staying and those leaving.” Oh yes

Melvyn Prior

@melvynprior

1 year

I’ve had a great career in an industry I love. I’ve met and worked with some wonderful people. Something I’ve never taken for granted. So thank you. Change is always difficult, but this process has been painful and has taken its toll on both those staying and those leaving.

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

10 months

If only there was some way of doing radio in all the different parts of the Country, by and for that community…. Oh wait…

RADIOWATCHER 📻 👀

@RadioWatcher

10 months

BBC on target to reach Across the UK goals - but more needs doing for music and radio #bbcradio #ukradio #radionews

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

11 months

David nails the frightening truth of this again. “A generation of senior BBC bosses appear not to know that that the creation of stunning day-to-day radio is a skilled job.” I hope that’s it, because the awful alternative explanation is that they simply don’t care.

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

Here's another thought. What is the long term damage to the quality of UK radio generally as so many staff leave so quickly in this ill-advised BBC local radio strategy.

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@UndervaluedFM

11 months

Another week, another cowardly “statement” of esoteric flip chart platitudes to hide behind. Jason, the game’s up- listeners are hearing the truth

NUJ BBC Nations & Regions

@NUJBBCRegions

11 months

This week @BBCR4Feedback has once again covered the cuts to BBC Local Radio. Once again, no senior manager would appear to defend the deeply flawed policy. A listener asks "can these arrogant blokes rectify the situation?" Listen from about 9'30" in...

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Good to hear @RoryStewartUK say Local Radio is very important and @campbellclaret that the BBC’s cuts are troubling and alarming. Thank you both for addressing my question on the excellent @RestIsPolitics podcast

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@UndervaluedFM

9 months

@NickyHorne @BBC Sadly not the only example of this. I know of presenters who’ve gone, being called in to discuss freelance work, only to find themselves being admonished for their posts on social media… implication: “don’t be critical or there’ll be no gigs”! Abhorrent behaviour

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@UndervaluedFM

11 months

Rhodri Talfan Davies said staff need to “live in the real world” when it comes to how their employer treats them. What has happened to our BBC?

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Do please share far and wide

BBC edits presenter’s departing attack on local radio cuts

The BBC has cut an on-air attack from its catch-up service after a presenter used her final show to condemn the corporation’s local radio cuts as “ableist and a

www.thetimes.com

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

How can anyone fail to see what is being destroyed with every one of these classy but heartbreaking departures?

Aircheck Downloads

@airchecks

1 year

New audio - @TonyFisherLive with his final link @BBCEssex after nine years (Aug 26th 2023). #AircheckDownloads

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

11 months

This. Every word

jonathan charles

@JCharlesLondon

11 months

What is most tragic is that for the same budget, successful BBC Local Radio schedules can be devised which would actually boost ratings. It’s about a failure of imagination and ambition, not funding. It is time for a full, independent inquiry into how this disaster

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@UndervaluedFM

6 months

This is great- part of the valuable role BBCLR plays in our communities. We’re ALL still dedicated to doing it to the best of our abilities. But I’d respectfully suggest denying the diminishing of services that has undeniably happened won’t serve to help us carry on long term

Vicky Breakwell

@VickyBreakwell

6 months

Who says #BBCLocalRadio isn’t local anymore? Not us! A fabulous morning broadcasting a budget special breakfast show live from Ross-on-Wye 📻 ICYMI listen again on #BBCSounds

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Where @rhodritd says for presenters applying to keep their jobs, making a demo tape was “not mandatory “. That. Is. Not. True.

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

Here it is:

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Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Anyone suggested sharing with R4 in the afternoon and at weekends?

RADIOWATCHER 📻 👀

@RadioWatcher

1 year

BBC Radio 3 has lost almost 1/8 of its listeners #bbcr3 #rajar #ukradio #classicalmusic #listeningfigures

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Either looks like a conspiracy, IS a conspiracy, or BBC are not very good at digital content… which would seem a bit embarrassing in the circumstances…

Andy Griffee

@AndyGriffee

1 year

@BBCR4Feedback @BBCSounds Why is yesterday’s @BBCR4Feedback debate on #BBCLocalRadio cuts now unavailable to download on @BBCSounds ?

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Absolute class in the face of thuggish, ignorant cultural vandalism. Heartbreaking. Again. A waste. Again. For no rational reason. Again. Running out of words for how hurtful and awful this whole destructive process is

🎙Steve Kitchen

@kitchtweet

1 year

So after 27 years at the BBC my 20 year run of presenting daytime programmes came to an end today. Can’t pretend I’m not devastated, but I managed to hold it together… just. It’s been a great run with so many great memories of times with amazing people. Lets see what comes next.

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@UndervaluedFM

9 months

Missing so many points. Local broadcasting is so much more than a 3 minute news bulletin (often recorded 30 minutes earlier btw). Listeners aren’t stupid.

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@UndervaluedFM

5 months

Absolutely. In my humble opinion it also demonstrates the dilution of audio craft: “stick a couple of people (ideally ‘names’) in front of a mic, let them have a little chinwag and it’s a podcast”. Lazy, clueless and clickbaity. And I wish the BBC were better than that.

Ellen E Jones

@MsEllenEJones

5 months

Not being funny yeah, but this is what happens when you consistently degrade the noble profession of TV/film/arts criticism by assuming any old sleb can do it.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Christ on a bike! First thing, nothing to do with Bridgitte… surely a first class broadcaster and glad she’s still on air. But this car crash of ineptitude and banality is exactly what we’ve been warning about. Somehow worse when you hear it really happen

Sam Smette 💙

@SamSmette

1 year

@NickyHorne the sorry state of affairs at BBC Local Radio, the new afternoon show on Ox & Berks launched yesterday. Is this what Rhodri envisaged when he said the programmes will “still sound local”? Can’t say I’m enticed to keep listening.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Absolutely this. Not his fault, but it is unambiguously offensive

Nicky Horne, Esq.

@NickyHorne

1 year

I’m sure he’s a good chap. But he has no radio experience at all ( except appearing in The Archers) Fire professionals, hire actors.

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

THIS! “ this is not what the BBC are supposed to be doing. They are required to provide services that are truly additional, distinct and incremental to what is already provided by commercial operators, not duplicate it.“

Radiocentre

@Radiocentre

7 months

Radiocentre statement on BBC radio brand extension plans

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Every picket line pic, tweet, address to MPs shows passionate professionals sacrificing more pay to fight for a service to others. What’s more BBC values than that? If I “led” these people I’d fight to my last breath to champion every last one!

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@UndervaluedFM

5 months

Tim Davie does, so no surprise

Scott Bryan

@scottygb

5 months

Honest to god you would have thought that by now politicians would not underestimate BBC local radio presenters?

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

I implore you to listen to this; the eloquence, the powerful dignity, the subtle brilliance of the tone and delivery. “I fear there’ll never be anything like it again.” Quite…

Georgy Jamieson

@georgyjamieson

1 year

So today I made a very sad announcement - 6 minutes in you can hear why I'm leaving the BBC after 9 years at the end of July

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Censored from BBC Sounds… please listen here

Sophie Little

@SophieLLittle

1 year

The BBC have decided to cut out something I said on my final radio show today. You can still listen to it here.

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

Read the bloody room for once!

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@UndervaluedFM

10 months

Trouble is, the staff just aren’t there any more ready to “go live”

scotsvoice

@scotsvoice

10 months

It’s times like these when local station managers should stand up and take control. Pull the plug on shared output and use the dedicated staff to provide an overnight service as they would have done in the past.This is what local radio was set up to do..serve the local community.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Wow! Worst fears confirmed, dismissal of “elderly “ audience (not true),delusion over taking audience along. Incidentally ask anyone from Teesside or Sunderland about Metro ‘owning NE’! Boils down to this: “not sure I would hire him to run a medium sized radio station.” NO IDEA

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

I spent an hour today with Rhodri Talfan Davies, BBC Director of Nations, probing the local radio madness....

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Those who dreamed up the plan think “National radio with a local sticker on it” has worked fine for commercial. BBC Local Radio listeners see right through it, it’s not the same as a music brand. BBC is a PUBLIC SERVICE broadcaster, who should be providing something others don’t.

Carl Wheatley

@TheCarlWheatley

1 year

Letters: 'We deserve better from the BBC than local radio cuts' - “National radio with a local sticker on it”

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Radio. If you get it, you get it…

Caroline Martin

@cazzatalkmartin

1 year

Omg. These listeners. 🥲🥲😍 Love them all x

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

Meanwhile, online…

Barry Allitt

@BarryAllitt

8 months

@NickyHorne @Ofcom A further slap in the face is from the Weather Presenter on East Midlands Today who advises viewers to keep updated by tuning in to their local BBC Radio station. Really!

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

Spot on. There have already been times editors wanted to go local but there wasn’t the staff, so it didn’t happen. They simply don’t understand: a lost listener won’t come back for a one-off local (or regional) show. They’ve noticed it’s not what it was, and gone elsewhere.

Bootsie1101

@Bootsie11012

8 months

@RadloFanatic Not surprised as Local Radio stations staff cut to the bare minimum so now unable to provide their own 'specials'. So much for Chris Burns telling RM listeners that if an emergency occurs, staf wud go in & present specials. If she said sun rises in the east wouldnt believe her2/2

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@UndervaluedFM

11 months

“It’s been decided…Not by me”. It’s a loss only someone who’s sat behind the mic can begin to understand. And every one hurts.

BBC Hereford & Worcester

@bbchw

1 year

'Thank you from the bottom of my heart' ❤️ A message from Malcolm Boyden 📻

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Chris Burns’ RAJAR email to all: “ No other broadcaster is as closely connected to its audiences and communities as we are”, “a strong quarter for Afternoons”, “ Hard to reach (C2DE) listeners now make up 46% of our total audience.” So let’s piss it all away!

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

You know that last scene on “Titanic”… just clinging on to the driftwood…

Dame chembabe

@chembabe1966

1 year

@DonnaAlosRadio @BBCDerby Not you too? How many of you local radio presenters are there going to be left?!

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@UndervaluedFM

9 months

All of this👇🏻

Nicky Horne, Esq.

@NickyHorne

9 months

@SimonBatesUK @BBC @JasonHorton_uk The real cost Simon is in the disintegrating mental health of many staff, clinical depression, suicidal thoughts, loss of income, relationships and confidence.And for those who stay, trying to make an impossible format work, imposed by a management they have zero respect for.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

I’d love to know the editorial justification for removing it

Sophie Little

@SophieLLittle

1 year

You are not mistaken.

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

Christ, it even ends up with a rehash of the “best” of the last 3 repeated this morning. And at the end Gaby Logan says “to listen again, go to BBC Sounds and search for your Local BBC station”. We do splits every day now FFS… too much to tailor different versions??! Basic!

Undervalued broadcaster

@UndervaluedFM

8 months

This wk on BBCLR: Pop stars talking to Make A Difference winners. Soullessly edited. Stilted, scripted links, 1 hr of 1 artist’s songs, NO local station IDs. 9am! Loved local voices will be in the building! Yet again foisted upon teams by people who simply DON’T UNDERSTAND RADIO

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Huge respect, total solidarity and heartfelt thanks to Sophie!

Eastern Daily Press

@EDP24

1 year

Radio Norfolk presenter Sophie Little has launched an extraordinary attack on the BBC at the start of the final Treasure Quest show.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

@CommonsCMS @BBC In an all staff meeting about huge cuts to local programmes Davie said “even if I had the money to save the programmes, I wouldn’t.” Maybe ask him why not?

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

Worse than today’s BBC Local Radio listening figures is this… RAJAR works on rolling 6 month reporting, so this is only half the initial story…

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Told that the “one minute to save yourself” question was never asked! I can show you the HR email that told me to prepare it for my interview…

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Maybe, just maybe, at one time there was a chance Tim Davie would have been lobbed a question about betraying BBC Local Radio listeners today. So unlikely now, with the current grubby and unedifying distraction.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

And this is how I stumble across this No wonder listeners still don’t really know…

New afternoon, weekend and weeknight schedules for BBC local radio stations

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Essex

@BBCEssex

1 year

For the latest updates about the local radio schedule changes, please click the link: 8/8

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

@ed_marriage @DavidLloydRADIO @NCanham Not even just local… they don’t understand radio at all

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7 months

Looks like a load of recorded offerings. No substitute for live radio, but they mock that belief

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10 months

Tbh feels less of a campaign and more of a forlorn hope now

NUJ BBC Nations & Regions

@NUJBBCRegions

10 months

@SirBillTaylor Well you can still back the campaign to #keepbbclocalradiolocal by writing to the Director General Tim.davie @bbc .co.uk and/or ask @Ofcom to investigate of there is a lack of local content.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

“And of course, this is just the start”. Look at this expulsion of politician-grade disingenuous guff! No acknowledgement of any of the choir of elephants in the room.

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

I still believe in radio too Faye. Tears falling. I don’t know you, but I can tell your listeners are losing the most authentic, eloquent and special of voices. Best expression of this absurd tragedy I’ve heard yet. It’ll feel like bereavement to them too

Faye Hatcher - Faye's Farewell - BBC Sounds

Faye Hatcher says goodbye after 23 years of working at the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@UndervaluedFM

8 months

Don’t tell Tim Davie… doesn’t fit his little daydream vision

Paul Chantler

@PaulChantler

8 months

Radio shows surprising resilience even in a rapidly changing media world

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

Think of ONE thing your BBC Local Radio station does that you value, enjoy or appreciate. When they’ve wrecked it, ask yourself WHO ELSE will do that?

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

That’s regional radio

Harry Stevens

@harrytrstevens

7 months

On the hour every hour until 1300 today on @BBCNottingham newsroom is empty!

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

BBC treating dedicated professionals disrespectfullly…? Surely not

Jake Kanter

@Jake_Kanter

1 year

Exclusive: BBC under fire over "appalling" treatment of 5 female presenters, who've been in limbo for months after news channel merger. Most have been at home against their wishes. Meanwhile, the BBC is spending good money on needless freelance cover.

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@UndervaluedFM

10 months

Let me save you some time @Ofcom

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

10 months

After another perplexing letter back from @ofcom on the BBC local radio changes, we have to ask whether somebody else should do its job in the whole area of 'local'. BLOG:

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@UndervaluedFM

1 year

But, but, “linear radio” is so old hat, say @JasonHorton_uk @rhodritd Tim Davie…

RadioToday UK

@RadioToday

1 year

Good news for radio: A new study shows radio is the most listened-to audio platform in the car with buyers expecting broadcast radio to be standard in their next new car

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8 months

Excoriating, forensic, powerful and RIGHT! Characteristically brilliant and important stuff from radio’s champion and hero! Go David!

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

8 months

The BBC's Acting Chair has written to me on local radio. Everything's fine. Everyone was consulted; Ofcom happy; programming "well received by audiences" & restructure was carried out “as efficiently and compassionately as we can”. My letter back is below.

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1 year

First @TherealNihal I’m a fan. You’re a rare intuitive, intelligent, honest, bold, empathetic broadcaster. Loved your chat with @adamrowecomedy BUT please don’t affect a Smashy & Nicey voice to caricature BBC Local radio presenters. We need solidarity right now not dismissing x

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5 months

Not “some stations’ output”. All of them. More truthful to say “in all but some cases, on weekday afternoons.” Reads like an attempt to diminish the truth of it, unfortunately What does the future hold for local commercial radio?

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6 months

Some of us are living it every day

The TV Room

@thetvroom

6 months

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | W1A will return for a Comic Relief special.

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@UndervaluedFM

7 months

For this we sacrificed true local radio…

Press Gazette

@pressgazette

7 months

Government research plays down BBC local news sector impact

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7 months

@PaulStainton @back_the_BBC @NickyHorne @DavidLloydRADIO They don’t even have the honesty/courage to say “we know you all disagree with what we’ve done and argued hard that this would be the result, but here’s why we still think we’re right…” (I can’t write that bit, as I can’t conceive what remaining justification they’d cling on to

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1 year

I sincerely hope this group have succeeded where listeners, professionals, unions, charities and industry experts have failed, and got the DG to open his eyes to the fact they might have got this at least a bit…wrong

Diana Johnson DBE MP 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌈

@DianaJohnsonMP

1 year

Attended useful meeting this afternoon of Humber MPs with BBC Director General Tim Davie to discuss the damaging BBC local radio cuts. We hope a constructive dialogue will now take place. #KeepRadioLocal @EmmaHardyMP @NUJEastYorks @RadioHumberside @Steph_Peacock @JasonHorton_uk

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1 year

THIS. ALL SPOT ON. “The new shared output on BBC local radio will fail. It is a misunderstanding of the role of local radio which is not just about news and sport, but local pride, convivial conversation, friendly voices that also challenge those in powerful positions locally.”

RadioToday UK

@RadioToday

1 year

Opinion: Former Managing Editor Dr Liam McCarthy writes to Tim Davie over BBC local radio changes

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1 year

It was always a “back of an envelope” cost-cutting hack, dressed up as strategised progress and inevitably unfit for exposure to practical reality.

📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

Note here from a BBC local journo. Appears to completely undermine the claim to me by BBC Director of Nations that systems for the new BBC local plans would be ‘ready in time’.

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