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Public service broadcasting in Northern Ireland is under threat, BECTU has told politicians at Stormont today.

Northern Ireland’s political leaders have united to call on UTV to stop its current redundancy exercise.

The campaign to save UTV’s local programmes will go to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont on 20 November 2008.

BECTU has started a public campaign to challenge UTV’s plans to cut jobs and to slash local programming.

BECTU is urging ITV plc and fellow union, the NUJ, to resolve their differences over the company’s current proposals for redundancy pay.

BECTU has registered a dispute with Ulster TV over its proposed redundancy programme.

This week’s leak suggesting that Ofcom favours the retention of the Border licence has prompted an open letter to ITV’s Michael Jermey.

ITV could get the OK to cut £40million from regional news and the BBC still faces “top-slicing” says a leak to the Guardian today.

Border TV’s campaign to save its flagship programme, Lookaround, prompted 13,000 people to write to Ofcom.

BECTU has submitted its response to Ofcom’s second Public Service Broadcasting review.

BECTU has accused ITV of failing to deliver on its 5-year plan after 89 job losses were announced yesterday in Leeds and Manchester.

The campaign by Border TV staff to save their much-loved local news programme arrives in London today.

BECTU has today urged Ofcom to listen to all stakeholders affected by the regulator’s second review into public service broadcasting.

BECTU is strongly critical of ITV’s revised proposal for Regional News which is published today.

BECTU officials are to brief the union’s parliamentary group on the current threat to ITV regional news on 26 March.