Ofcom has today invited applications to run 21 local TV channels across the UK.
Ofcom has today invited applications to run 21 local TV channels across the UK.
As part of a statement<http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/local-tv/statemen t?utm_source=updates&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=local-tv-statement> on how Ofcom will exercise new powers and duties given by Parliament to license new local TV services, we are also inviting applications to run the local TV multiplex. The closing date for applications for the channels and the multiplex is 13 August 2012.
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FYI There are already local TV services for towns and cities in Slovakia. They're funded by a local authority grant and advertising.
Eric Tesug <(Address removed)> said:
FYI There are already local TV services for towns and cities in Slovakia.
They're funded by a local authority grant and advertising.
Balls to grant funded radio/TV during these times of financial crisis. I'd rather the money was spent on nurses and hospitals than wasted supporting bunches of ego-trippers that nobody will be listening to/watching.
Isn't this very similat to what ITV was originally ? They are just proposed to be a bit smaller. ITV had to combine their channels to make them competative in the modern age and eventually ended up with a single ITV1 with only about an hour a day of local opt out mews and current affairs programming in each region. A couple af areas of the UK have aleady tried local TV ,but nobody watched it and it closed - Solent TV was one i can think of. I think it's a non starter , despite the fact that the transmission on digital networks is now much cheaper to carry than in the past on analogue. A handfull of licences might get taken up , but i suspect that most will close again within five years.
