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I think Radio Scotland has some opt outs for Orkney and Shetland and Radio Wales has certainly had splits for sport for North Wales, but not sure if we ever had any separate programming.

Historically, there were some local opt-outs for mainland Scotland too (i.e. Radio Highland, Radio Aberdeen, Radio Tweed) which around the early 90s were parred back to just local news bulletins - there were six regions, IIRC - at breakfast, lunch and Drivetime.

I'm not whether those regions still do news opts - but Radio Orkney and Radio Shetland do at least three opts a day (a half-hour news programme, an hour-long evening show and a shared lunchtime bulletin)

By the same token, Radio Wales ran similar opt-out bulletins for the North East area previously served by Radio Clwyd until 2002 - think it was only around that time that the opt to carry Wrexham's games was established.

STV did a pilot once for a Scottish Six they integrated everything into the mix, including speaking with ITN, Shame that never happened.

The ill-fated Independently Funded News Consortia (IFNC) pilot that never was.

The trouble is for its good intentions - bumping up the number of local opts to six etc (even though another consortium was lined up to take over the then-Tyne Tees and Border region) - people were quick to point out it was a handy way to ditch the existing STV North service.

AFAIK, the most we saw of the 'pilot' was actually an elongated promo fronted by John MacKay.

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In the event, STV lost the contract - likewise ITV Wales were due to lose out to a UTV-led group - but the change in government that year killed the pilot dead with the incoming Tories favouring local TV instead (and as we know, STV had its hands burnt again when they tried the 'Scottish Seven')*

* cues Halla Mohieddeen walking off and throwing her script away

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