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Recommendation 6
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The pandemic has reinforced the importance of local and regional-specific news provision.
Recommendation
The pandemic has reinforced the importance of local and regional-specific news provision. The provision of news to Nations and Regions should not suffer further as a result of budgetary restraints. We perceive a real risk to the provision of regional- specific news programming, and we are adamant that the quality, and relevance to local people, of programming for the Nations and Regions must not be further jeopardised. Regional news programming must be representative of, and relevant to, the audiences it is broadcast to. We recommend that Ofcom undertake a review into the quality and relevance of the local and regional news provision, to be reported on before the new BBC Charter negotiations begin. (Paragraph 40) The future of public service broadcasting 51
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 17 June 2021. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗