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Keep BBC local radio local and do not allow excessive regionalisation.

Submitted on Tuesday 1st November 2022

Rejected on Monday 7th November 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Keep BBC local radio local and do not allow excessive regionalisation.

Petition Details

BBC local radio is a valuable resource to many and the local stories and content are not only excellent but useful to the many who listen.

We have already experienced many commercial stations going national, losing that local interaction and content

Additional Information

At a minimum keep exclusively local content local during peak listening times such as 6am to 6pm on weekdays and 6am to at least 2pm on weekends.

We have already lost so much local coverage on commercial radio and do not want to lose what is to many people, their last local source on the radio.

People for example who live in Norfolk want to know what's going on in Norfolk and are not really interested in an event in Cambridge.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for. Decisions about local BBC radio services are a matter for the BBC, not the UK Government or Parliament.

The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the Government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.

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