The BBC’s plans for replacing Radio 5 with a news and sports format,announced yesterday, have been criticised by the Independent Radio industry.
The BBC move is seen as narrowing the options available for those applying for the third national commercial licence, to be based mainly on speech.
Brian West, director of the AIRC, told MediaTel this morning that it was an obvious assumption that a news and sport service would have figured in most plans for the third commercial licence, and that this move by the BBC narrows the possible options for potential INR3 bidders.
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