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First 20 locations for new UK Local TV stations revealed

Local TV will represent "a fundamental change in broadcasting", Hunt predicts.

By Dominic Ponsford Published 13 December 2011
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Local TV will represent "a fundamental change in broadcasting", Hunt predicts.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has identified the 20 towns and cities which are to be in the vanguard of his Local TV experiment.

This follows the announcement in August of 65 potential sites for Local TV.

The "pioneer" Local TV areas, which could have stations by 2014, will be: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea.

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Thu, 2011-12-15 20:32 — Scotty

Its great to see this - I only hope the BBC fat cats are taking this seriously - Some of their 3 billion a year income from our licence fees should be diverted to local TV's as well.
There is no justification for the numbers of highly paid non productive managers that ponse around the BBC

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