BBC using Midland region as cash cow

DEAR Editor, I’m in full agreement with Micheal Bradley’s letter in last week’s Post.

Despite the fanfare of positivity surrounding the BBC’s proposals for the regions you don’t need to carry out a forensic examination of its plan for the Midlands to realise we stand to lose out yet again compared to all other regions.

These are regions that have already been treated much more generously over many years while our region, the largest in the UK, is forced to live off scraps and vague promises.

Successive BBC management teams have a track record of broken promises and yet continue, quite unashamedly, to talk about their commitment to the Midlands while pouring even more money into London and Salford. Indeed all other regions with the exception of one.

We need more television and radio production based in our region and it’s about time the corporation made some quantifiable and significant commitment to the Midland region by re-establishing network television studios within Birmingham.

Instead of making vague promises and minor adjustments to the Midland region we call upon Tim Davie and others within the

BBC management team to make some serious commitments to our region, for once.

This would make a real and significant difference to job creation, programmemaking, not to mention the representation of the Midlands at national and international level.

If the corporation continues to refuse to support the region in a fair and proper manner it stands accused of nothing more than institutionalised prejudice against our region, for reasons only known to itself.

It also stands accused of using the region and its licence fee payers as nothing more than a cash cow for the funding of all its other activities in other regions of the UK.

We are being used for one reason and one reason only, and doesn’t the Corporation know how to milk us?

So we do have our uses after all.

David Emson, Belbroughton, Worcestershire