<div dir="ltr"><div>The original story was in The Guardian:<br><br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/12/bbc-ofcom-help-norwich-tv-station-mustard" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/12/bbc-ofcom-help-norwich-tv-station-mustard</a><br><br>Jeff Henry believes that to make local TV a success, changes need to be made in three areas:<br><br>(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.<br><br>(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.<br><br>(3) Distribution of local digital TV on Sky as well as Freeview and Virgin Media.<br><br></div>Regards<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bill Best<br>-- <br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div><div><div><div>Operations Manager<br></div>Community Media Association<br></div><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/community_media</a><br></div><div><a href="https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br></div><div></div>Canstream Internet Radio<br></div><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk</a><br></div><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2015 at 09:45, Alan Coote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Surely the lack of money in community radio, in fact local media in general, should have told them life was going to be tough.<br>
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