[Keith]

However I also notice from the same webpage, the exasperating comment:  " outside of these reductions [to local content quota amounts], failures to meet programming output obligations [for Local TV providers] have only been noted by Ofcom a handful of times over the last 10 years "

Which seems to suggest to me simulcasting Talk TV (and previous CBS Reality) appears to count towards the quota, which is ridiculous because CBS Reality on its own aired Judge Judy all day, which is an American show that was made on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles...

If they are "due to expire on 25 November 2025" there's will have been a general election by then, and quite likely a change of government.

I personally think that most of these "local" TV channels take the proverbial these days and are now local in name only. It would be nice if OFCOM (and/or government) could insist that if the "local" channel wishes to remain in it's channel 6/7 position it must air two hours of original local content between 6am and 11pm every daily. Alternatively they could relinquish their channel 6/7 position for a much lower channel number. I suspect this might sink most of the rebranded local Talk and That's channels, but it would at least end this farse.