West Cork suffered a serious blow to its identity and community spirit with the axing of the West Cork Today programme on local radio C103. The station which is owned by UTV recently decided to cut the West Cork service and combine the news section with the North Cork region which will mean inevitable reduction in coverage of local issues in both territories not to mention the loss of the excellent radio personality and journalist David Young who has served West Cork so well.
The decline of local radio will inflict serious damage on local communities, especially smaller towns and villages that depend on local radio to inform and publicize to the wider community issues about local politics and local events.
Where one of the main vehicles of communication is restricted especially a service provider that is required to deliver local news it will have serious impacts on the wider community.
UTV license obligations require that they provide a local news service, by combining north cork with west cork they are diluting the service and neglecting its customers, you the listeners of West Cork.
West Cork badly needs its own radio news programme and David Young has provided an excellent service for many years. Cutting the local service and making valued radio journalists redundant that are the voice of West Cork news just isnt acceptable.
This is your radio station, and as its listeners, you are its life-blood providing essential advertising and revenue to its owners. If you happen to advertise with the station, you need to contact your account manager or contact C103 itself and remind them of who their customers are and let them know how you feel.
You can also write to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland let them know about the importance of local radio in providing regional areas with their own news service and its importance in supporting the local communities of West Cork.
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