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Originally Posted by steveh
Cable operators also had a statutory requirement to provide a local television channel, but this was dropped at some point in the nineties around the time of the big mergers.
Bell Cablemedia in East London had a scrolling information service filled with out-of-date information then for one week a year they would put out some programmes just to fulfil the legal requirements.
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I can remember when I was young we had Redifusion cable tv and they would flash any news from the area which needed the local people to know,i.e a flood warning.