{"id":3345,"date":"2013-09-14T07:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2013-09-13T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:41:35","slug":"bbc-reduces-the-amount-of-religion-it-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/09\/14\/bbc-reduces-the-amount-of-religion-it-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC reduces the amount of religion it broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularism.org.uk\/news\/2013\/07\/bbc-reduces-the-amount-of-religion-it-broadcasts\">National Secular Society<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The BBC has published its annual report which shows that the amount of time devoted to religion on the various BBC platforms has reduced over the past year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the 2012\/2013 period BBC1 broadcast 99 hours of religion as opposed to 102 hours in the previous year. The only channel to show a rise in the number of hours of religious broadcasting was BBC2 which went up from 27 hours in the 2011\/2012 period to 47 hours in the latest period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">BBC4 showed a significant drop from 53 hours last year to only 5 hours this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On BBC Radio the number of hours devoted to religion went down from 1,211 last year to 975 hours this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: &#8220;It is good that the BBC is taking notice of its audiences at last \u2014 who according to its own research don&#8217;t regard religion as an important genre and hardly ever watch it. This small reduction in hours is welcome, but it still represents an awful lot of religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr Sanderson said that it wasn&#8217;t clear whether the BBC&#8217;s figures included such things as the church service for Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s funeral (which was broadcast in full) or the service of thanksgiving for the anniversary of the Queen&#8217;s coronation. These appear to be extra to the official religious figures in the annual report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr Sanderson said he welcomed a more imaginative approach to religion and a more critical examination of it. &#8220;It is impossible to ignore the part that religion is negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has published its annual report which shows that the amount of time devoted to religion on the various BBC platforms has reduced over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2012\/2013 period BBC1 broadcast 99 hours of religion as opposed to 102 hours in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[797,953,638],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-and-society","tag-bbc","tag-religious-broadcasting","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}