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