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Just read in Broadcast magazine that Granada Media Group want to close the Newbury News Centre (serving Meridian's west region in the Thames Valley and North Hampshire) and relocate to Southampton to create a 'centralised news service'. Although the West of the region would get its own news service, it would mean job losses for Meridian in Newbury and the service would be like Anglia News West....which comes from Norwich but does not include Norwich in its area!!
I can see Meridian going back to the days of Coast to Coast when the programme used to include a short opt out from the Hannington transmitter (from Southampton) and the rest of the programme was very South coast biased.
Obviously Reading, Newbury, Camberley and Basingstoke are not big enough for their own news presence in the region!
I can see Meridian going back to the days of Coast to Coast when the programme used to include a short opt out from the Hannington transmitter (from Southampton) and the rest of the programme was very South coast biased.
Obviously Reading, Newbury, Camberley and Basingstoke are not big enough for their own news presence in the region!