NG
{Devil's advocate}
As the populations served by those nations are comparable to some English regions, are license payers in England not already subsidising those in the nations? A viewer in Scotland gets a lot more "regional" content than I do in Yorkshire, yet we pay the same license fee.
Though of course in an English region the services you get are more local than, say, Scotland. The two Scottish BBC radio and two TV stations* cover a large geographic area (with a few short opt outs). Whereas in Yorkshire there's several radio stations and there's two tv regions.
It's swings and roundabouts, my BBC local station covers a large area, but it's still better than someone in Lerwick having their local station coming from Glasgow for 99% of the day
*one only part license fee funded
Though you could argue that BBC One and BBC Two Scotland are 'more local' because they provide more BBC Scotland content than just the English regional opt-out slots... (depends whether you define 'more local' as 'more local content' or 'content made more locally')
noggin
Founding member
{Devil's advocate}
As the populations served by those nations are comparable to some English regions, are license payers in England not already subsidising those in the nations? A viewer in Scotland gets a lot more "regional" content than I do in Yorkshire, yet we pay the same license fee.
Though of course in an English region the services you get are more local than, say, Scotland. The two Scottish BBC radio and two TV stations* cover a large geographic area (with a few short opt outs). Whereas in Yorkshire there's several radio stations and there's two tv regions.
It's swings and roundabouts, my BBC local station covers a large area, but it's still better than someone in Lerwick having their local station coming from Glasgow for 99% of the day
*one only part license fee funded
Though you could argue that BBC One and BBC Two Scotland are 'more local' because they provide more BBC Scotland content than just the English regional opt-out slots... (depends whether you define 'more local' as 'more local content' or 'content made more locally')
