12-04-2024, 11:18 PM
(12-04-2024, 11:10 PM)James2001 Wrote: The reason why STV2 never took the funding, as they obviously wouldn't have wanted the BBC using their reports and they were probably the only ones making something of a quality the BBC might have considered using anyway.The fact there are still independent local channels, means it wasn’t a totally failed experiment. The trouble is the ones run as profit making entities haven’t lasted. But the ones run more like community radio have largely lasted. So ultimately I think the mistake was allowing larger group that were profit orientated.
And when an ITV franchisee with all their resources couldn't make local TV work, it really tells you what a bad idea it was.