While it is nice that people outside the East Midlands can hear our programmes via the iPlayer, I don't see it as a badge of honour if people are tuning in from all over the world - instead it makes me question if the programme is truly serving local audiences. The part of the licence fee that funds the BBC in the East Midlands is there to serve audiences in the East Midlands, and I take the responsibility of spending that money very seriously. I believe it's important that as many people as possible should be served by the BBC in the East Midlands as possible.

He is talking complete horlicks of course. If the programme was listened to by hundreds of thousands of people then he would think it was great.

The whole point of putting material on the internet is to widen audiences. So why put it on the internet if that is not the reason?


BBC Boss Wants to Cut Audiences makes a cracking headline!