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BBC breaches licence by scaling back Radio Foyle news programmes

However, Ofcom said the BBC had informed it that the cuts meant it had “breached its BBC Radio Foyle news and current affairs condition”.

A BBC spokesperson said: “We announced these changes in November 2022 and they were the subject of significant discussion.

“Ofcom approval hadn’t been sought at the time. We set out this mistake clearly in the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts in July 2024.”

The operating licence condition requires the BBC to broadcast at least 1,043 hours of news and current affairs programmes (including repeats) on Radio Foyle.

In June 2024, the Ofcom report said, the BBC told the regulator it had not met that quota.

“In this case, the BBC has missed its quota by 300 hours, achieving only 71% of the required level of output,” Ofcom said.


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