BBC Alba vs BBC Radio on Freeview
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Who actually decided this? I doubt that this has enhanced BBC Alba audiences (beyond the cynical soccer rights) so who is really in favour of cutting all BBC Radio stations in favour of a frankly wanky language?
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from BBC Pres release
But the Welsh channel S4C is a commercial broadcaster, subsidised by money from the DCMS, and provided with some programmes by the BBC.
Surely as a matter of fairness, BBC Alba should be funded in the same way, and cease to be a BBC channel.
The BBC are taking over the funding of S4C
Actually BBC Alba is funded by MG Alba, which is financed by the Scottish Government, and BBC Scotland.
The BBC currently spends £3.2 million on radio content and £2.1 million for TV and online. The BBC contributes an additional £2.5 million to the station.
So, the BBC provides £7.7m to BBC Alba.
There are plans afoot to transfer funding of S4/C to the BBC, but they haven't taken place yet. It is currently funded by commercials, and the DCMS, and that is exactly the same way Alba should be funded.
It might be called freeVIEW, but it has carried digital radio channels since it's inception (as Ondigital) and the BBC have been actively promoting it as a method for listening to their radio stations for many years, the jingle on radio 2 says "Online, on digital, and on 88 to 91FM" it doesn't mention except in Scotland after 7pm!
Digital.......radio?
They don't specify radio, they just use the word digital, to convey the message it is on all digital platforms, DAB, Digital satellite TV, and Digital Terrestrial TV....
unless you live in Scotland...
Someone mentioned the German Italians but do they have to do without other services to hear some German. The Welsh wanted S4C and still got most of Channel 4 even before the digital change over. Now they get both. We only get BBC Alba OR BBC radio.
Wake up BBC and change this back to how it was.
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Have you tried contacting big Alex over this because I'm sure the Scottish govt had a say in it somewhere.
Does your mummy know you're using her computer?
I work for the SG, and complaining to FB, sorry, FM, would do no good. He's too keen on keeping then up North onside to bother with anyone from Central Scotland!
Not on Radio 2 they don't!
According to official Scottish Government figures, 58,000 people speak Gaelic.... (That is about the population of Livingstone, or 1/10th the population of Glasgow)
The number of those who care about it may be higher... but I doubt it.
It's nice to have a channel with high quality documentaries made in Scotland.
BBC Alba and S4C are exactly the sort of thing that should be funded by the public! It's called Public Service Broadcasting and is repeated around the world.
use a radio to listen to it.
you're not being deprived of the radio completely, just on a platform that is built for TV.
IMO, preference should always be given to TV channels over radio on Freeview.
Its not like the people who watch don't speak English, your deaf analogy just isn't true. That's the issue there is no value to the public from these services. They cost a lot of money when we are promoting languages where no one is a not a speaker of English.