[cma-l] Local TV in trouble

[Martin Steers]

I find this rather funny, mainly that all this was known before they put in
their bids, and should have planned!

It would be interesting to see how the "community tv" stations that hold
local licenses are getting on...

On 14 October 2015 at 10:44, Bill Best <bill.best at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> The original story was in The Guardian:
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/12/bbc-ofcom-help-norwich-tv-station-mustard
>
> Jeff Henry believes that to make local TV a success, changes need to be
> made in three areas:
>
> (1) The BBC’s three-year £15m agreement to buy content from local TV
> owners should be extended beyond its termination point of March 2017 as
> part of the charter renewal process to give the businesses time to become
> established.
>
> (2) Ofcom needs to adopt a more flexible approach to allowing local TV
> operators to vary their programming commitments from their initial licence
> agreements as the fledgling operations adjust to be commercially viable.
>
> (3) Distribution of local digital TV on Sky as well as Freeview and Virgin
> Media.
>
> Regards
>
> Bill Best
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> On 14 October 2015 at 09:45, Alan Coote <alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Surely the lack of money in community radio, in fact local media in
>> general, should have told them life was going to be tough.
>>
>>
>> http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2015/news/regional-publishers-local-tv-channel-lost-657000-last-year/
>>
>> Alan
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