Save Our Local News

Save Our Local News! Message from the BBC Brighton NUJ chapel:

Dear listener,

We write to ask you for your support in helping to avert cuts to BBC Sussex which will seriously affect the quality of your local radio station.

You are not being told the truth by the BBC – here are the full facts.

The BBC has told you that there will be changes at BBC Sussex because of the cutbacks imposed by its Delivering Quality First programme. It has said that the afternoon programme and some other shows will be shared across stations.

But in fact the BBC has also announced plans to cut the equivalent of up to twelve staff jobs at BBC Sussex – a total of about one third of the staff.

The programmes that you listen to and contribute to require a small number of highly trained people, with an intimate knowledge of the kind of things that are of interest to listeners just like you.

So, if the BBC cuts one third of staff at BBC Sussex, then the quality of your programmes will inevitably suffer.

Fewer people will mean we can’t do the job that we have been doing for so many years. It will seriously affect our ability to report on the issues that concern you and in time it could affect the long-term chance of BBC Sussex surviving as a service.

We ask you to log on to the BBC website and register your views on the risk to BBC Sussex - your local radio station before 21st December.
You need to go here: http://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/bbc/dqf/. Click 'Online consultation' and read the section 'Delivering Quality First: Public Consultation - Section 4: Nations and Regions'

You can read about what the BBC says and then you can register your own views.

BBC Brighton NUJ chapel