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Originally Posted by Rillington
Commercial radio no longer broadcasts locally-produced content outside of brief local headlines, as part of a mixed two-minute bulletin of local, national and international news, and BBC Local Radio is about to massively scale back tis local output in favour of regional and England-wide programmes.
What are people's views on the withdrawl by commercial radio, and to an extent, the BBC from local broadcasting in England?
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This isn't just a thing in England, it's happening all over the UK and the genesis was the financial meltdown of 2008.
Companies no longer had the money to advertise and that revenue is the lifeblood of any local commercial radio station.
Broadcasting media companies merged, jobs were lost, radio stations rebranded and now here we are.
Local commercial radio is gone forever.