[cma-l] BBC funding for local TV

[Steve Buckley]

Letter from DCMS to the BBC (extract)

"The BBC will play an active role in supporting 
new local television services through a 
partnership fund providing capital costs of up to 
a total of £25m in 2013/14 for up to 20 local TV 
services, subject to any necessary regulatory 
approval. The BBC will also commit to ongoing 
funding of up to £5m per annum from 2014/15 to 
acquire content for use on its own services from 
these new services. Should capital costs be 
required earlier then this will be facilitated by 
access to the existing digital switchover underspend by mutual agreement."

Source (and letter in full):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/22/bbc-funding-settlement-jeremy-hunt