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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I can receive London Live on Freeview, and I live in the Thames Valley.
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They work quite well in the US.
The idea I think is to provide an alternative to the BBC for local programming. They need to add other programmes to it to draw in the audience and boost advertising revenue. Should get better with time.
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The US is far bigger than the UK though, I think that this country is too small for them to survive.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
That's not the full picture though.
Besides the costs of licensing the local TV channels, there is some funding from the licence fee, as detailed below. Were they also given a low Freeview channel (8) as well?
"Separately on Thursday, the BBC Trust published details of how it plans to allocate up to £25m in licence fee money to help the local TV multiplex licensee to fund its capital start-up costs, including transmitters and other equipment, between 2013 and 2017.
The BBC said the local TV multiplex licencee was "of course free to consider whether they could fund their plans independently of the BBC funding".
Another £5m of licence fee money will be allocated annually over three years from 2014 for the BBC to buy content from local TV service operators, provided it is "suitable for inclusion in a UK public service (i.e. a BBC service) and the price represents value for money""
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...al-tv-services
I think it's an interesting experiment and I think it could work in a few of the larger cities. |
I'm sure he will be aware of this, it's good to point it out though. Whilst the BBC are having to consider cuts eg BBC Three, this Government has frozen the licence fee. In addition they have effectively forced the BBC to provide fundin for S4C, The World Service, Local TV, The DSO help scheme, Broadband etc.
In the case of London Live, the Government has enabled funding for an extremely rich family to open their own TV channel. An outrageous waste of public money when essential services are being cut.