Will BBC cuts mean reduced coverage of the City by CWR? (2 Viewers)

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.

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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.

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

Platt_The_Donkey said:

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.

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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.