As the BBC announced its strategy for handling the budget cuts it will implement as a result of the freeze on the television licence fee, here is a look at the proposals for BBC Scotland in the report, with BBC Radio Scotland set to no longer run during the night.
The ‘Delivering Quality First’ report outlines the changes that will be made to the new channel, which will see a total budget decrease of £24m each year, and the amount of time spend on breaking news will be reduced, and more material repeated from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions, during ‘lower demand’ times.
Television programmes for Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland and Wales, will be shown to audiences across the UK, likely to include River City finally being seem outside of Scotland, having long been mooted.
The existing number of new bulletins and strands will be maintained, although it will ‘reduce slightly’ other non-core news and current affairs programming, while ‘other genres’ of programming will also be reduced in number.
The BBC has also promised ‘a significant investment’ in the amount of network programming produced in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the likes of Question Time move to Glasgow. Read More
(Source : The Drum, UK)
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