Community Media Discussion – Local Radio for the Chop?
Channel: Decentered Media
Date: 01/11/2022

This week in our Community Media Discussion, we’ll be chatting about the cuts to BBC Local Radio, and how community radio is becoming the main platform for locally produced and independently managed media. In an age of commercial and corporate homogenisation, however, community radio is also facing challenges to the founding principles of access, participation, education and self-representation, that define Ofcom regulated community broadcasting. If the BBC can take a hatchet to local radio, what’s the chance that community radio will be next for the chop?