The BBC Trust has reviewed the corporation’s regional radio output and,while stating it must remain relevant, said budgets had already been left ‘very tight’The BBC has been warned against making further cuts to its local radio services by the BBC Trust, and which said budgets had been left “very tight” by previous rounds of cost-cutting.
The BBC’s 39 local radio stations face the prospect of cuts as allotment of the corporation’s attempts to meet the £700m cost of free TV licence fees for the over-75s.
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Source: theguardian.com