sustainable given their audience level and the costs involved. nobody would touch them in a privatised world and try and make money out of them. they re simply not commercially sustainable. so this isn t about making a kind of kneejerk defend the bbc case. this is about thinking about the rest of the radio industry. the commercial world would be affected. not only would all those bbc local and nation services closed down the bbc networks collectively, one, two, three, four and five could just about survive if they were prepared to cut their cost base by about their content costs by about 60%. well, good luck saving the good bits of the bbc that people know and love if you have to take 60% off the cost and then the third leg of this is that the commercial sector, if the bbc, if the networks were taking commercials, the commercial sector would suddenly find its own revenue base cut back by ten, 15, 20%. therefore, the commercial
bbc local radio and all the nations radio. they simply are not commercially sustainable, given their audience level and the costs involved. nobody would touch them in a privatised world and try and make money out of them. they re simply not commercially sustainable. so this isn t about making a kind of kneejerk defend the bbc case. this is about thinking about the rest of the radio industry, and how the commercial world would be affected. well, not only would all those bbc local and nation services close down the bbc networks collectively one, two, three, four and five could just about survive if they were prepared to cut their content costs by about 60%. well, good luck saving the good bits of the bbc that people know and love if you have to take 60% off the cost. and then the third leg of this is that the commercial sector if the bbc, if the networks were taking commercials, the commercial sector would suddenly find its own revenue base cut back by 10%, 15%, 20%.
the commercial sector would suddenly find its own revenue base cut back by 10%, 15%, 20%. therefore, the commercial sector is making no money. all of the investment that the commercial sector has put into radio over the past ten, 15, 20, 25 years, really, as commercial has really grown in the last 25 years, that s all for nothing, too. bbc radio is 100 years old this year. commercial radio is 50 years old next year. if this came to pass, it would be a terrible indictment on this government that they would throw away a cultural part of this country that is so well established and that 90% of the population, you know, listen to every week. it really. you know, radio is always forgotten in these conversations, and it s terribly sad to see that, once again, that s the case. nadine dorries simply didn t even contemplate radio, probably, when she made her announcement. but there are people in the commercial sector who feel that bbc radio, for example, is too big, it strays into their territo
of all, close down, i m afraid, bbc local radio and all the nations radio. they simply are not commercially sustainable, given their audience level and the costs involved. nobody would touch them in a privatised world and try and make money out of them. they re simply not commercially sustainable. so this isn t about making a kind of kneejerk defend the bbc case. this is about thinking about the rest of the radio industry, how the commercial world would be affected. well, not only would all those bbc local and nation services close down the bbc networks collectively one, two, three, four and five could just about survive if they were prepared to cut their content costs by about 60%. well, good luck saving the good bits of the bbc that people know and love if you have to take 60% off the cost. and then the third leg of this is that the commercial sector if the bbc, if the networks were taking commercials, the commercial sector would suddenly find its own revenue
so this isn t about making a kind of kneejerk defend the bbc case. this is about thinking about the rest of the radio industry, and how the commercial world would be affected. well, not only would all those bbc local and nation services close down the bbc networks collectively one, two, three, four and five could just about survive if they were prepared to cut their content costs by about 60%. well, good luck saving the good bits of the bbc that people know and love if you have to take 60% off the cost. and then the third leg of this is that the commercial sector if the bbc, if the networks were taking commercials, the commercial sector would suddenly find its own revenue base cut back by 10%, 15%, 20%. therefore, the commercial sector is making no money, all of the investment that the commercial sector has put into radio over the past ten, 15, 20, 25 years, really, as commercial has really grown in the last 25 years that s all for nothing, too. bbc radio is 100 years old t