Will BBC cuts mean reduced coverage of the City by CWR? (3 Viewers)

[The CableGuy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/06/bbc-cuts-2000-jobs

Local radio will also be hit, with a focus on peaktime programmes and more syndicated programmes across neighbouring stations.

I'm guessing we might end up with a Midlands Sports show, broadcasted from say, Brum, which would cover all the local teams and CWR would take that feed.

 

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[chiefdave]

Don't they already do this in the Midlands. A lot of what you get on CWR outside of peak time is from WM. Pretty sure there will still be local sports coverage.

 

[Jack Griffin]

I suspect footie coverage it is one of their most popular programs, I only ever listen to CWR for the football.

 

[BenInTurin]

I suspect footie coverage it is one of their most popular programs, I only ever listen to CWR for the football.

It does say a focus on peak time programs so I guess this would include the football. Although saying that, with mercia covering it as well, the beeb could argue there's already coverage.

 

[Marty]

the people on the radio are boring as hell, but i ain't going to pay for the offical site coverage of the game, so i guess i hope they carry on.

 

[les_miserables]

Apart from matchdays there's only an hour a week on City, the other hour is taken up by rugger, speedway and ice-hockey. I heard they are going to re-name the City slot to the Juggy, Nigel and Ian show

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

Apart from matchdays there's only an hour a week on City, the other hour is taken up by rugger, speedway and ice-hockey. I heard they are going to re-name the City slot to the Juggy, Nigel and Ian show

Yeah, and what's happened to the Non-league show? I liked that. It went from being every week to once a fortnight to..gone? Great support for your local community, there :facepalm:

 

[The CableGuy]

From the Beeb (on about local radio cuts):

Focus spend on peak-time programmes - breakfast, mid-morning and drivetime - sport, and faith on Sunday mornings

Increase levels of sharing in off-peak slots: weekday afternoons, Sunday afternoons and evenings

On weekday afternoons most stations would share programming with their neighbouring stations, although a few, which serve a particularly distinct audience, would remain separate

On weekday evenings between 7pm and 10pm, programming would be shared across England, with all stations coming together except when providing local sports commentaries

At other off-peak periods sharing would occur at a variety of levels. Some would be akin to the regional television areas, and during the late evening in five larger areas: the North; the West Midlands; the East Midlands; the East and South East; and the West and South West

All stations would broadcast Radio 5 Live from 1am until the start of their breakfast programme

A number of locally split breakfast programmes would end

Within all shared programming individual stations would continue to provide local news bulletins at present, and would be able to leave the shared schedules in times of civil emergency or bad weather

 

[brinner]

a P45 for Eakin wudnt go amiss.

 

[ccfctommy]

Ah well not a fan of Clive, Geoff or CWR for that matter, can never pick it up anyway.

If I do listen to the radio then its Mercia.

I just hope they don't try to get rid of BBC 6 Music again!

 

[Moff]

If they get rid of Stuart Linnell, that would be a cut I would be in support of!

 

[wingy]

24 hr rolling news,depressing, repetetive, dire,weather 5min slots,all too much information and over analising .we,re not following their model on here are we?

 

[wingy]

When you think about these cuts ,there probably is dead wood in there ,but they've shed 7000 jobs in the last seven years ,and when you consider they were used with the rest of the media,by the establishment to bring down the last government,maybe theres a bit of poetic justice .I mean why do these Djs get half a million a year surround themselves with 4-5 sychophants ,go on holiday every 6 weeks ,like MPs.there may be an appetite for revenge from MPs given their stance on the media recently .but the worry for me is they're degrading independent journalism,when we have predominantly right wing press,theres a touch of hypocracy here the way Cameran has pushed this through in the last three yrs. Independent TV and SKY,are bleating now as the slump has reduced their income that its not a level playing field ,but how many years have the beeb been battered by their superior spending power,it smacks a little given Camerons closeness to the murdochs

 

[Otis]

If CWR are going to start making cuts I suggest they start with Ian, the number 2 phone caller to the post match phone in.

I know he's always on first but I think I will always see him as a number 2.

 

[Platt_The_Donkey]

CWR's coverage of Coventry City couldn't get any lesser to be fair, their coverage is pretty shite. Some clubs have at least 3-4 shows a week dedicated to their clubs. Its about time someone started their own station purely for local sport, throw in the Rugby, Speedway, None-League Footy etc, everybody's happy.

 

[The CableGuy]

CWR's coverage of Coventry City couldn't get any lesser to be fair, their coverage is pretty shite. Some clubs have at least 3-4 shows a week dedicated to their clubs. Its about time someone started their own station purely for local sport, throw in the Rugby, Speedway, None-League Footy etc, everybody's happy.

CWR aren't just for CCFC.

They do full match coverage and Sky Blue Interactive. Why would they need to do 3 or 4 additional shows on a struggling football club which most of Coventry and Warwickshire's listeners don't care about?

It could be worse - before CWR and Mercia, it was just the odd mention of us scoring or letting in a goal on Radio 2, when that station did sports coverage.

As for a local sports station - who's gonna pay for that? Commercial stations are sharing coverage due to lack of funds and now the BBC are going down the same route, so the chances of a local sports station succeeding are slim to none.

 

[Disorganised1]

The cuts at the BBC need to be in the salary of the stars not on ordinary journalists.

However Blair destroyed the strength of the journalists with his attack on the BBC over the death of David Kelly, they broadcast the facts and Blair and Cambell set out to destroy them, and succeeded. Since then papers have been afraid to publish the truth because of the possible consequences. If you want to read political truths nowadays you have to follow the blogs or wait for the book to come out.

 

[torchomatic]

I bloody hope not. I would rather ram chopsticks in my ears than listen to the shite on Mercia. I'm a BBC man.