General BBC Oxford South Today ended + radio changes

Will you keep paying the licence fee?

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eaststandboy said:
I didn't realise you needed a TV licence for watching any LIVE TV channel, I thought you need it only if you watched BBC content!
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I think if you have equipment which receives a TV channel then you need a licence. Many years ago I was told if you didn't have a Television you still had to have a licence paid at a lower rate to listen to the radio.
 
Joey's Left Boot said:
Hopefully BBC Oxford's OUFC coverage will be unaffected, wouldn't be the same without them.
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It isn’t much now anyway as when football is shown on BBC South they tend to crack on about Your Southamptons, Bournemouth’s, Brightons, Pompey and then little old Oxford will get a quick mention along with the Scum and MK…..so nothing will change.
 
I live in Banbury and am not interested in what happens in Southampton, it’s 94 miles away. So can I have the regional news for Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham or London? They’re all closer than bloody Southampton!
 
Grumpy Git said:
I live in Banbury and am not interested in what happens in Southampton, it’s 94 miles away. So can I have the regional news for Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham or London? They’re all closer than bloody Southampton!
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Back to the good old days with central news from Birmingham
 
mariokempes said:
I think if you have equipment which receives a TV channel then you need a licence. Many years ago I was told if you didn't have a Television you still had to have a licence paid at a lower rate to listen to the radio.
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That's absolutely not the case. You don't have to pay anything if you just have a radio.

I live in Cambridgeshire and, as the article in the original post says, we're losing the Cambridge version of Look East. I never watch it, but quite a few people do.

You can't blame the BBC for what's happening - it's the result of the government's freeze on the licence fee, part of the Tories' plan to damage the Corporation for their own ends and to the benefit of their friends in the media.

Don't believe Johnson when he says he greatly values the BBC. (Nadine Dorries doesn't even bother to pretend that she does.)
 
On one tv in my house I get the local news that people in Oxfordshire get and the other get the London and surrounding areas BBC one, it’s a nice bit of variety to go from the daily stabbing news in London to a road being a bit busy just outside Southampton, neither are particularly near to me though so you have to question the point of local news once it covers areas this large.
Perhaps they could introduce it as the particularly local news.
 
If local news isn’t local You do have to question the point. Maybe it would be better for the beeb to make a much bigger statement to the government about funding. Maybe something that would be apolitical but much more informative. Maybe a fact check show on the politics of the day with a segment on each political party with a representative at the commons.

…………Waits for all the Boris fans to do a no but response.
 
Where I live (in the middle of Bedford/MK/Northampton) we get Look East on the BBC. Up until now the region has been split into two with the eastern part of the region (Norwich, Peterborough etc) getting one lot of local news and the western part (MK, Bedford, Cambridge etc) getting another. That's now going and we will all get the news from Norwich. Not very useful at all really. And of course BBC 4 (with all of the interesting documentaries and music) is being shut down as well.

The BBC is still decent value for money when you take into account all of the radio stations (including 6Music and Radio Oxford especially!) and the remaining TV channels (although why on earth the dismal BBC 3 was spared the axe, who knows!). But it's being whittled away.
 
Leysboy said:
Bring back them old tv’s with Ceefax, frantically looking on page 300 for football, then 302 when we were in the old Div 2.
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The interminable wait for pages to change on transfer deadline day or the live scores page on matchday. You could almost guarantee the page you wanted will have just gone through when you'd just opened it up so you had to wait for it to go all the way through again. Glorious days.
 
ZeroTheHero said:
Where I live (in the middle of Bedford/MK/Northampton) we get Look East on the BBC. Up until now the region has been split into two with the eastern part of the region (Norwich, Peterborough etc) getting one lot of local news and the western part (MK, Bedford, Cambridge etc) getting another. That's now going and we will all get the news from Norwich. Not very useful at all really. And of course BBC 4 (with all of the interesting documentaries and music) is being shut down as well.

The BBC is still decent value for money when you take into account all of the radio stations (including 6Music and Radio Oxford especially!) and the remaining TV channels (although why on earth the dismal BBC 3 was spared the axe, who knows!). But it's being whittled away.
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for now .... how long before mad Nad architects 'streamlining' of local BBC radio?

We used to have excellent local tv magazine/news programmes

BBC Oxford- broadcast from Summertown

ITV Central South - Broadcast from Abingdon

now we have unrelated 'local' news from BBC South from Southampton.... with f*****g tide times etc( a lot of good that it in the shire!) and now the (week) daily 10-12 min slot, that actually has relevance 'locally' , from BBC Oxford being axed

ITV Meridian seems to cover the whole south coast more or less, and sport wise have an obsession with Pompey, Southampton, Bournemouth & Brighton - the plastics occasionally get a mention, oufc rarely get much 'coverage' ( their recent tribute to Joey was half decent though) , creepy crawley get as much if not more!

neither BBC or ITV in recent years have any idea(it seems) where Oxford is located judging by their ( lack of) local coverage , over recent years
 
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