Local TV only merits top billing on the programme guide by producing original local content – not by being a supporting player in Rupert Murdoch’s culture wars 🖊️ iburrell via ipaperviews
has occupied most of the schedule on eight of the services, including those in Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds., Mike Graham and Julia Hartley-Brewer, as they go about their self-proclaimed war on woke.is reviewing the 34 local TV services but on the basis of proposals that they should continue for at least another 10 years. “We want to see this continue,” said John Whittingdale, the media minister.
Originally the brainchild of Jeremy Hunt, local TV was intended to emulate the success of cable channels in America’s big conurbations. “If New York can manage six local TV stations, the idea that London cannot sustain one is bonkers,” Hunt argued. But from the outset the venture struggled to find audiences and, with a few isolated exceptions, it has failed to deliver on its promises.
The unlikely front-runner of local TV was the Grimsby-based Estuary TV, which began in 2013 with a schedule that included a cookery show,. Estuary TV lasted longer than most local channels but closed in 2018. London Live became the local station for the capital after the hotly contested licence was obtained by the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev and his son
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