R4 Bumped for Alba on Freeview

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laresTue 24/05/11 19:08

"Radio 4 and Radio Scotland will get bumped off Freeview North of the border when BBC Alba arrives in digital later this year"

"BBC Alba continues to spend money like recession is something that happens to other (English-speaking?) people. Deadline News reckons the station spends about £150 per viewer, down from its peak of more than £250 but still more than the £145 a viewer spends on a (household) TV licence.

The Scottish government is tipping £12.4m into the service this year, while BBC Scotland chips in around £10m to run the station and then spends more money on vital projects such as dubbing Charlie and Lola into Gaelic for the two per cent of Scots who understand a word of it.

How many people tune into BBC Alba isn't clear - the channel doesn't use the normal method of counting viewers (run by BARB) as it's claimed not to represent the Highlands and Islands properly. Instead TNS System Three phones people up and asks them if they watch the channel, and even then finds that fewer than 200,000 people do."

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I really dislike the way dead languages are being pimped like this. It's even worse when they take off something genuinely interesting for it too.

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