WHAT DEFINES PUBLIC-SERVICE BROADCASTING?
• High-quality national and regional news • Current affairs and documentaries (pictured) • Children’s programming • The arts • Religious affairs But there has not been universal approval of the idea that ITV would show less regional news. The broadcaster plans to cut its newsrooms around the UK from 17 to nine, and the Bectu union fears 250 jobs will be lost among journalists and technical staff. Politicians have made submissions to Ofcom over the proposed merger of the Border and Tyne Tees newsrooms, covering the south-east and south-west of Scotland, plus the north-east of England and Cumbria. There were concerns that the quality of news for the south of Scotland would fall if it lost its customised bulletins. Have your say: should regional programmes be preserved? Gerry Morrissey, Bectu’s general secretary, said employees would be balloted over industrial action if Ofcom’s proposals led to compulsory job cuts. “Ofcom has not fulfilled its responsibility to the viewers,” he said. “Th
