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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I guess there's a possibility that a new channel might deploy this strategy (unless theirs a rule preventing a local TV station from becoming a quasi national channel).
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Not much thought seems to have gone into how these channels should fill the schedule for a 24 hour period. Sheffield Live TV carries audio from Sheffield Live community radio and a photo slideshow for much of the day. An odd solution as the remit of the community radio station is different from that of the tv station. It would have made more sense to have created a local tv network which these channels could opt in and out of to fill the schedule. A bespoke network could have content more appropriate to the nature of the channels.
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Perhaps this is why the local channels on satellite are FTV encrypted and geographically restricted by VM??
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With the current content, encryption makes little sense. Perhaps if the channels covered local sports but they don't seem to do that.
VM seems to match coverage to terrestrial coverage as far as possible but that's not a perfect solution.
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Having said that, aren't they all available online??
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Yes and no. That's TV tend to make their channels available on Freeview only, with no streaming. Made TV has live streaming of some areas, with streaming for some others "coming soon". Some of the independents are available online and I believe that STV2 is available via the STV Player.