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How long will it last one wonders.

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Well, London Live is struggling and their request to decrease the amount of live programming to cut costs shortly after launching has been refused by Ofcom.

If our capital city cannot sustain a local channel, I very much doubt that any of the others will survive.

IMHO Hunts vanity project is dead in the water as predicted and the money wasted at a time of austerity could have been put to much, much better use.

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There is quite a convincing argument that London is not like the rest of the UK and should not be seen as a reliable testbed for local TV. LondonLive is sensibly changing to target the readers of sister company the Evening Standard rather than the Janet Street-Porter type approach it initially went for. This may make well increase its success, it certainly should help reduce costs. It remains to be seen how well it does but we can't extrapolate the performance of one operator in an unrepresentative city to say that Local TV does not work.
Whilst there is no evidence at this early stage that the project is dead in the water, I am inclined to agree with you that it is a bit of a pet project. I would have preferred to have seen the money spent on retaining BBC3 on cable, terrestial and satellite platforms.

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i think the trouble with local tv is what do they actually show? they arent funded enough to make actual original shows so any shows they make will look cheap. or do they just show rolling news footage?? but why would i want to watch news focused on liverpool 24/7?

Man buys pastie which looks like pope. Dog runs away from owner and kills duck.

there isnt enough news in liverpool to warrant a channel. will be interesting to see how they deal with it.

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What i think could work for local tv is if they get involved with the local sports teams etc maybe show a sunday league match live, come to a deal with football clubs to show things like the u21s matches live etc, get more involved in the communities too.
Easier said than done i know but it could work.

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So much history, culture and sport in Liverpool, there are opportunities there, plus the region has a very strong identity, it's really whether it can be done for the right quality and price. A channel there would probably neeed to collaborate with lots of other institiutions there like the Universities, music venues, museums, Tate, football clubs to make a success of it and to reduce costs.

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The owners of the following Local TV Channel has confirmed that they will be on Virgin Channel 159 from launch:

-Belfast: NvTv (Launching September 29th)
-Bristol: Made in Bristol (Launching October 8th)
-Cardiff: Made in Cardiff (Launching October 15th)
-Leeds: Made in Leeds
-Liverpool: Bay TV Liverpool
-Southampton: That's Solent
-Edinburgh: STV Edinburgh (Launching January 2015)
-Oxford: That's Oxford
-Basingstoke: That’s Basingstoke
-Guildford: That’s Surrey
-Reading: That’s Reading
-Salisbury: That’s Salisbury

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You could have biographies on the Beatles, Kenny Everett, Cilla, jimmy Tarbuck, Tom O Connor, Ray Quinn, Craig Phillips, Edwina Currie the list just go on!!!!

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Maybe they will show Brookside?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...d_in_Liverpool

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Scouse olympics????:D

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Would love to see that back best soap ever!

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hahaha i would watch it if it has brookside.

good old ron dixon

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We watch a really good selection on Notts TV where there is plenty of variety.

Here is a selection on catch up

http://www.nottstv.com/videos

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My reasoning for viewing London as a testbed for the other local TV stations was that it has a high density of population and would be attractive to advertisers.

Why do you think that London cannot be compared to the rest of the UK?

Local TV catch up!!! I never even thought about that, this puts many of the smaller cable channels to shame for not having a catch up service at all.

Also, local TV stations are restricted to their target areas on both cable and satellite. The reason being given is that this is because of rights issues. Making programmes available via VOD makes a mockery of this (perhaps they only show content they have created themselves).