[lookoutwales]

It's not clear what the "local programming" consists of during the opt-outs, as to whether that's local news or not.

I caught one of the local blocks on 'Talk Birmingham' a few weeks ago - and it's clutching at straws at best.

It's a half-hour block - the local content usually consists of one story package and a brief news round-up at the top and a weather forecast at the end (in total, about 6-7 minutes worth)

The rest of the block is padded out by quite generic syndicated content - much the same material that you'd find on the sister Shots TV (i.e. Zoom chats and smartphone PTCs etc)

In other words, getting away with as little as possible.