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BBC Trust to review 3, 4, 7 and local radio
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 12 March 2010
The BBC Trust has confirmed that it is about to initiative a review of the operations of Radios 3, 4 and 7, as well as the Corporation’s local radio services. They will presumably say the services are basically performing well but could do with more promotion, and then ten days later BBC chief Tommo Thompson will announce all said services are to be closed down.
The Trust’s review of local radio will be particularly welcomed by the Beeb’s local stations, who are already processing the results of two internal reviews that reached conflicting conclusions (one of them Tommo’s controversial cut backs document). Fingers crossed the Trust’s review on local radio will manage to contradict both previous review documents, because I read somewhere that total confusion is very healthy when you’re trying to run a communications-based organisation.
Confirming the planned review, the Trust’s David Liddiment told reporters: “Radios 3, 4 and 7 all offer output which is hard to find elsewhere – and licence fee payers tell us that the BBC’s radio stations serving the nations and local regions make an invaluable contribution to their communities. As well as the current performance of these services we’ll also be looking at the BBC’s future plans for the stations to ensure they are robust and deliverable. If change is needed the Trust can alter the stations’ service licences or ask the BBC Executive to address the issues we raise”.
