http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...remy-hunt-bust
Birmingham City's one BUST - London's one seeing "zero" viewing figures and applying to reduce local content - and lets not forget, this needed a whole new freeview mux - and takes up a channel on VM that could be used for something else.
A service designed by a government committee, what do you expect?
I'd sooner have Tru TV on VM and resort to Freeview for the lame duck local channel.