Christa Ackroyd column: 'Despite my own painful exit from the BBC, I still want to save local radio'
What is wrong with being local, particularly in an area like Yorkshire which has such a strong identity and covers more than five million people? Why can’t the cuts, if they are necessary, be spread evenly across all BBC services on TV and in radio? Why does ‘local’ have to take the brunt. My late great friend Richard Whiteley was a national icon but always said this greatest achievement was presenting news to those he lived amongst.
So dear Beeb, is the plan to deliberately let it all fade away so you can, before too long, turn around and say ‘ah look no one is listening to local radio any more’ so there is no need for it exist? Too extreme? Well they have already begun to dismantle it. Four hour radio shows, already the new norm, are too long not just for the presenter but for the listener. Those presenters have become our friends and we trust them because they live among us and reflect our local pride.
And so it is time for us all to make a noise. The plans are by no means complete but from what I have seen they are not good. So write to your MP, write to the BBC bosses and tell them you don’t agree. It worked when they planned to axe 6 Music. It worked when they planned to get rid of the local politics show on TV. And it may yet work again. Even if it doesn’t, it will show those presenters who are being kicked out that they are appreciated by the listener, if not by the BBC hierarchy.
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