The South & West Dorset Broadcasting Action Group was originally formed as WEDBAG (West Dorset Broadcasting Action Group) after Oliver Letwin MP had been inundated over a long period of time with complaints regarding a wide range of Television and Radio problems in West Dorset. The problems were principally, but not exclusively with the BBC. Over time, JIM Knight MP joined because of concerns in Dorset South and Weymouth & Portland in particular, and so WEDBAG became SWEDBAG by adding “South & West (at the beginning). Following the joint letter by MPs to the BBC to win back ‘BBC Radio Dorset’ from right across the county, and full support from the County Council, it has become clear that many of the issues are common to residents in all of the county of Dorset to some extent or other – hence this has eventually led to the broadening of the Action Group’s charter to represent Dorset as a whole with a corresponding change of name to the “Dorset Broadcasting Action Group” (DorBAG).

 

The main issues were, and in many cases still are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because of the sheer number of complaints, and the fact that the BBC didn’t seem to want to know, it was originally decided to form an Action Group to bring pressure to bear such that Dorset would have satisfactory solutions to all its problems, once and for all. It seems that everyone is still totally fed up with being in a ‘Black Hole’ as far as the BBC in particular is concerned, and the recent cancellation of the planned ‘BBC Radio Dorset’ is just another example of the BBC’s neglect of this county.