{"id":3677,"date":"2011-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2011\/12\/13\/ofcom-makes-local-tv-proposals\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"ofcom-makes-local-tv-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2011\/12\/13\/ofcom-makes-local-tv-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom Makes Local TV Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LONDON: The U.K. regulator Ofcom has identified 20 sites for local TV stations should the proposed legislation get passed by Parliament. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton &amp; Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea are the locations Ofcom will advertise licenses. A further 24 areas have been identified for a future round of licensing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&quot;These are selected from the sites where local TV is technically possible  and we consider there is a potential local service operator, and  selected to achieve a range of locations across the U.K., and a range of  scales of operation,&quot; Ofcom said in its released statement. &quot;We also take into account evidence of strong local  demand.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The government hopes to license the first local stations from summer 2012. The BBC license fee will finance some start-up costs, but advertising is likely to be a main source for funding the services.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&quot;I am confident these new stations will provide local communities with  programming which is relevant to their daily lives, will support local  democracy, boost the big society and enhance local communities,&quot; said Jeremy  Hunt, the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">culture secretary <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The U.K. regulator Ofcom has identified 20 sites for local TV stations should the proposed legislation get passed by Parliament. Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton &amp; Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea are the locations Ofcom will advertise licenses. A further 24 areas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ofcom Makes Local TV Proposals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ofcom Makes Local TV Proposals . LONDON, December 13: The U.K. regulator Ofcom has identified 20 sites for local TV stations should the proposed legislation get passed by Parliament. . 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