BBC Radio Foyle cuts and programming changes
3 releases from 3 parties, 12 January 2023 to 24 January 2023.
Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication
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Eastwood elected Vice-Chair of BBC All-Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster
SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP says he will press the BBC Director General to remove the threat facing young public interest news journalists and researchers at Radio Foyle, after being elected to the BBC All-Party Parliamentary Group. He argues the planned cuts breach the BBC charter's local and…
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Tennyson says proposed Radio Foyle cuts would be devastating for local area
Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson says BBC proposed cuts to Radio Foyle's breakfast news and bulletins would be devastating locally and across Northern Ireland, and calls on BBC NI's interim director and the Director General to review and cancel them.
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Duffy to challenge BBC chiefs over Radio Foyle cuts
Sinn Féin Mayor of Derry & Strabane Sandra Duffy says she will meet BBC bosses in London to demand that planned job losses and service reductions at Radio Foyle, including the Breakfast Show, be scrapped and to protect the station’s community role.
Parties with no matching press release found on their website
- DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
- Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
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