tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230830988577370012.post6762752696401952051..comments2023-04-21T03:30:05.199+01:00Comments on RichardHorsman.com: DQF - Why 'Radio England' is a Really Bad IdeaRichard Horsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870193588395496620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230830988577370012.post-24221525477141671302011-10-08T17:52:44.049+01:002011-10-08T17:52:44.049+01:00The BBC has missed a massive opportunity with DQF....The BBC has missed a massive opportunity with DQF. It should be switching off the BBC News Channel (and it should do it immediately). Instead of endless repeated packages and correspondents commenting, offering opinion and speculating for hours on end because there's airtime to be filled, leave local radio alone. Even better: cut the 1830 regional TV news programmes to 15 minutes (it's obvious to me that my local one is reduced to padding after about eight minutes) and improve local news on the BBC local radio stations. They are more suited to covering their patches rather than massive chunks of the country than the TV newsrooms have to do. These are, more often than not, areas so big that one side of them has nothing (and probably doesn't want to anyway) to do with the other.Andy Carternoreply@blogger.com