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Ok I'll bite. How is Scotland less well catered for than the typical English region already?
I don't begrudge the extra service, but I question how justifiable it is that the rest of us will have to pay for it.
Audiences in Scotland and Wales already get more for their money than the rest of us with BBC Alba and S4C. Putting a big chunk of money into this project at a time when regional broadcasting elsewhere is being cut back seems very unfair.
The posts asking "when will such-and-such a region get their own TV station" completely miss the point.
Scotland is not a region; it's a country within the UK that is in many, many areas distinct from the rest of the UK.
So yes, the population of the North West of England might be more than 5m. But those 5m are already widely catered for in the "national" BBC output.
Scotland is not a region; it's a country within the UK that is in many, many areas distinct from the rest of the UK.
So yes, the population of the North West of England might be more than 5m. But those 5m are already widely catered for in the "national" BBC output.
Ok I'll bite. How is Scotland less well catered for than the typical English region already?
I don't begrudge the extra service, but I question how justifiable it is that the rest of us will have to pay for it.
Audiences in Scotland and Wales already get more for their money than the rest of us with BBC Alba and S4C. Putting a big chunk of money into this project at a time when regional broadcasting elsewhere is being cut back seems very unfair.