{"id":12787,"date":"2023-05-01T19:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2023-05-01T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:50:21","slug":"den-dun-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/05\/01\/den-dun-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Den dun in…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad to hear that the great local-radio presenter Den Siegertsz<\/a> is being axed from BBC Radio Stoke, as the station continues to dwindle away into what seems — in the very near future — to be very little actual ‘local hours’ of speech radio. <\/p>\n

Surely the BBC should be boosting its local non-sports services and grassroots coverage, not slashing them to almost nothing? But it seems our local shows are soon to become a ‘shared’ regional hodge-podge, with BBC Stoke’s local shows merged together with those of Radio Hereford and Worcester, Radio Shropshire, and Radio Coventry & Warwickshire. Not very enticing for listeners who just want some good local speech-radio with local presenters and local topics. And I’m willing to bet there’ll be no ‘weekly digest’ podcast, featuring just the best Radio Stoke speech-radio local-interest bits all back-to-back. For some reason, the BBC have always resisted doing such an obvious thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s hoping that Den turns ‘getting the boot’ into ‘boots on the ground’. Perhaps by starting a wonderful and wholly-independent free weekly podcast and YouTube channel, that gets him out-and-about in the city with a microphone. I’ll be subscribing, if he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad to hear that the great local-radio presenter Den Siegertsz is being axed from BBC Radio Stoke, as the station continues to dwindle away into what seems — in the very near future — to be very little actual ‘local hours’ of speech radio. Surely the BBC should be boosting its local non-sports services and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}