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Old 02-04-2014, 15:40   #1861
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Re: Coming soon to Virgin TV 2014
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
The US is far bigger than the UK though, I think that this country is too small for them to survive.



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.
I don't think it's new money, though, Richard. Isn't this funded from the licence fee? The BBC were already wasting that, so it's a question of the pot being made to go further.

The fact that the channel is run by a rich family makes no difference. If anything, it could be better, because they may decide to put some of their own money into this if there is a likelihood of a return on investment.

I am not sure how the local channels are expecting to survive, but they could all put something into a pot for programming that would be available on all the local channels, which they would then supplement with local programming. That might be a cost effective way of growing an audience.
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