Councillors discuss Radio Shropshire cuts
Wednesday 26th October 2011, 8:15AM BST.
Councillors in Oswestry have discussed drastic proposals to make cuts at BBC Radio Shropshire.
The station’s managing director Tim Beech wrote to Oswestry Town Council outlining the proposals.
The letter to councillors said the radio station was due to have its staffing budget cut by 20 per cent as a result of the BBC’s Delivering Quality First programme.
He asked for councillors to contribute to a public consultation into the plans.
Councillor Cynthia Hawksley, the town mayor, said: “They have got to make changes and they are taking some of the programmes off air. It is quite sad. Perhaps we could write a letter to say we don’t agree with it.”
Mr Beech wrote that proposals would also see 33 hours of Shropshire-generated programmes lost every week.
The town council has decided to write in response to the consultation stating that it felt local radio was important. Councillors also felt that the BBC should boost its Shropshire content.
The letter from the radio station to the council at this week’s town council’s finance and general purposes committee said it currently reaches 30.5 per cent of the county’s population every week.
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