[comtv-l] [cma-l] Local TV in trouble

[Bill Best]

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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