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I suspect selling ad space for the Local TV channels is a tough job at the best of times but they've only had to worry about the "local" "news" in recent years. Can't see 8 year old often cheaply produced content which isn't local to the majority of areas it's airing in even covering the costs of selling the ad space in the first place.
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(30-04-2024, 11:55 PM)London Lite Wrote: KMTV also use DailyMotion for uploading their local bulletins and to stream the local channel up to 720p.
www.dailymotion.com
Perhaps it’s easier for them to get revenue for the advertising?
(01-05-2024, 01:52 PM)Brekkie Wrote: I suspect selling ad space for the Local TV channels is a tough job at the best of times but they've only had to worry about the "local" "news" in recent years. Can't see 8 year old often cheaply produced content which isn't local to the majority of areas it's airing in even covering the costs of selling the ad space in the first place.
Must be particularly difficult in South Wales where the advertising spend is already with GB News.
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(01-05-2024, 03:24 PM)Jon Wrote: Must be particularly difficult in South Wales where the advertising spend is already with GB News.
At one point, they pulled the plug entirely on what was Made in Cardiff and turned that into the ‘generic’ channel with all the various local blocks in turn.
This is a fairly typical example of what Local TV usually fills their half hour with, when it’s not voxes or PTCs on a street corner - Zoom interviews padded out with the most generic stock library footage you can find.
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Yes, the report on the First Minister of Wales had about 30 seconds of footage of him in the Senedd and 90 seconds of two still images of the outside.
The old Made bulletins up on that Daily Motion pages from 2018/19 actually look decent enough - they at least have a host in a studio rather than on a street corner.
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(01-05-2024, 07:20 PM)Brekkie Wrote: The old Made bulletins up on that Daily Motion pages from 2018/19 actually look decent enough - they at least have a host in a studio rather than on a street corner.
AFAIKK, the last time they had studio presentation was when all of the local bulletins were being presented from Leeds following some drastic cost cutting (and that didn't even last, either)
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Ofcom have now published the approach and timetable for renewing:
www.ofcom.org.uk
Seems to be "Ofcom may only refuse an application for renewal of a L-DTPS licence if:
• It appears that the Licensee has failed to comply with any of the conditions included in their licence; or
• We are not satisfied that the Licensee would, if their licence were renewed, provide a service which complied with the conditions to be included in the licence as renewal"
And there is an application fee of £10k apparently, which might be seen as a substantial amount of wonga for an operation that is watched by virtually nobody.
Under the criteria its going to be interesting to see how most of these operations have complied with the licence conditions especially with regards to first run programming, but the news from yesterday sort of muddies the waters a bit now as to what ultimately will happen.
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It’s no mean feat that this week marks ten years since still-local and still-indie Notts TV went on air.
They’re marking it with a birthday special going out tomorrow - and a golden duck hunt…
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Happy 10th Birthday Notts TV - one of the few local TV channels to actually deliver on its remit.
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(27-05-2024, 09:21 AM)Omnipresent Wrote: Happy 10th Birthday Notts TV - one of the few local TV channels to actually deliver on its remit.
Out of interest, how have they, and a handful of others, managed to make the local TV model work whilst the vast majority have had to cut their services to the bone?
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(27-05-2024, 09:17 PM)Spencer Wrote: Out of interest, how have they, and a handful of others, managed to make the local TV model work whilst the vast majority have had to cut their services to the bone?
Notts TV is owned by Nottingham Trent University (NTU), which funds the channel and has always had strong links to broadcast journalism training.
The licence was originally won by a consortium of Nottingham Post Media Group, NTU, Confetti Media Group and Inclusive Digital.
NTU bought a controlling stake in Confetti Media Group not long after launch and I'm guessing the other partners were bought out at some point.
