12-03-2024, 12:46 AM
(11-03-2024, 11:52 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote: Comux multiplex and run the transmission contact with Arqiva. Theoretically they offered playout and other services to Local TV but the big two Made/Local/Talk & That's hosted their own playout, not sure anyone used Comux beyond the bare minimum
I imagine the few indie stations left still rely on Comux playout? (Big Centre was a somewhat ironic example - based in Walsall yet played out in Birmingham, then once bought up, moved - briefly - to Brum while playout moved to Leeds)
There was a period where local programming on the Made stations had been streamlined into a half-hour 'Made TV News' programme across the stations - each edition was roughly 50/50 local and generic content, but they were all recorded at the Leeds studio (there was a Wales Today piece on the streamlining of local TV which pointed this out)
As such, this arrangement lasted all of 3-4 months at best before they reverted to the VT blocks.
The local magazine shows had been replaced with a similar hybrid programme called The Big Daily - which was meant to be produced from the Birmingham studio. Within a couple of weeks of launch, Birmingham ceased production, the remaining staff were made redundant and the show itself disappeared not long afterwards.