Comments on: BBC ends live Assembly coverage

By: This fortnight I have mostly been reading…. – Freedom Central

This fortnight I have mostly been reading…. – Freedom Central — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:10:37 +0000

[...] will no longer be showing the Assembly proceedings live. According to the Bevan Foundation this may not be mourned in the pubs in Wales, but is ‘a retrograde step’. With ITV cutting back [...]

By: David Jones

David Jones — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:33:23 +0000

Does anyone know how much money this will save the BBC ?
It seems curious that this type of simple relaying service should actually cost any jobs.

By: MH

MH — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:49:08 +0000

In some ways I am disappointed too, for exactly the same reason that Angela gives. There was something good about being able to see exactly what was happening in the Senedd at any time, it made it immediate and transparent.

Yet that said, I have tended to watch what happens on Senedd.tv … and that is going to continue. It’s a bit of a small picture, but it’s fine. But there’s a generation for whom the internet is an alien concept, and broadband coverage in Wales is still patchy.

As I understand things from Vaughan Roderick’s blog, the BBC is going to launch a replacement internet service called Democracy Live in the Autumn. I don’t know if that will just be a clever way of disguising cuts, or whether it will be a breakthough in terns of “on demand” viewing on a new, but every bit as useful, platform. We’ll have to wait and see.

By: Angela el

Angela el — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:20:50 +0000

That is retrograde ,what happened to openness and a new inclusive government
What are they scared of ? Who decided that ?May be it should be shown in the pubs , it may just wake the latent political discourse that was to be found in places like the Lamb in Merthyr at one time
Is this a case for citizen media to take over

By: daran

daran — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:59:43 +0000

A strong point succinctly put. The lack of attention this change has received is of some concern