{"id":2718,"date":"2022-11-03T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:48:33","slug":"bbc-local-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"BBC Local Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2709\">DCMS Questions<\/a>, Sir John Whittingdale MP raised the importance of BBC Local Radio and expressed his disagreement with the BBC&#8217;s proposal to reduce the provision of local radio services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BBC Essex is a service that is highly valued by listeners in Sir John&#8217;s constituency. He believes that rather than cutting back on local radio, it&#8217;s a service that the BBC should be looking to invest more into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John asked Minister, Julia Lopez, if she would urge the BBC to reconsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also went on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0dbyzbf\"> BBC Essex<\/a> to discuss these proposed changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think the BBC are setting the wrong priorities, and rather than cutting back on local radio, it&#39;s the kind of thing they should be increasing.&quot;<br><br>Former Culture Sec. and Maldon MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JWhittingdale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JWhittingdale<\/a> reacts on BBC Essex to proposed changes to BBC local radio: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vJLm0yqWjd\">https:\/\/t.co\/vJLm0yqWjd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlYzarKr4w\">pic.twitter.com\/tlYzarKr4w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Essex (@BBCEssex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCEssex\/status\/1587378885171314688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In DCMS Questions, Sir John Whittingdale MP raised the importance of BBC Local Radio and expressed his disagreement with the BBC&#8217;s proposal to reduce the provision of local radio services. BBC Essex is a service that is highly valued by listeners in Sir John&#8217;s constituency. He believes that rather than cutting back on local radio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}