WE WERE genuinely pleased to see column inches in your paper reporting on the three applications to run local TV licences in Oxfordshire (Oxford Mail, August 20). I thought it would be useful to clarify that BBC Oxford television news is broadcast directly from its studio based in Oxford three times every weekday.
So while Jonathan Marks is correct in saying that off-peak regional news is broadcast from BBC South Today it is worth being clear that the BBC is also based locally. Alongside our BBC local radio station, BBC Radio Oxford, which has been serving the county for more than four decades, BBC Oxford News provides licence fee-payers with the latest news for the county and we are very proud of doing so. We look forward to working with the successful bid ensuring that Oxfordshire people benefit from more local broadcasting than ever before.
JASON HORTON
Head of BBC South
Havelock Road
Southampton
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