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November 2021

  • Vials filled with doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine ready to go at the San Diego Fire-Rescue Training Facility.

    How anti-vaxxers and ivermectin advocates have co-opted US local news

    Local outlets may lack audience size, but they can can provide a veneer of legitimacy to fringe groups, experts say

July 2020

  • The plan is expected to see the BBC save £25m.

    One in six jobs to go as BBC cuts 450 staff from regional programmes

    Well-known local presenters to lose jobs and concerns raised about news quality

May 2020

  • BBC logo on the front of a building

    BBC local news programming in balance due to budget cuts

    Award-winning Inside Out investigations and regional political debates under threat

March 2019

  • An interview underway at Ambur local radio station in Caldmore, Walsall

    We can’t afford to let local news fade away

    Letters: Local newsgathering is in crisis, but all is not lost, says Tim Luckhurst

May 2016

  • Saga Norén in The Bridge.

    BBC changes raise questions on its remit

  • Telly McTellyface

    Media Monkey
    Local TV group rides the Boaty McBoatface wave

October 2015

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Don't make the BBC bail out the busted flush that is local TV

    Roy Greenslade
  • Mustard TV

    BBC and Ofcom asked to help Norwich TV station cut the Mustard

June 2015

  • LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 22:  (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME. MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTO BY DAVE M. BENETT/GETTY IMAGES REQUIRED)  Evgeny Lebedev (L) and Alexander Lebedev attend a champagne reception at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Gala held at the Stud House, Hampton Court on September 22, 2011 in London, England.  (Photo by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)

    London Live makes £12m loss

    Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev’s TV business says it is on track to reduce its losses by about half in the current financial year

May 2015

  • Auckland

    Greenslade
    London Live's Steve Auckland says 'we can't keep propping it up'

    Evening Standard’s local TV partner may not survive if losses continue to mount

April 2015

  • London Live

    Former BBC iPlayer boss: local TV is 'years behind in its thinking'

    Anthony Rose criticises Ofcom’s implementation of the service, saying it would have been better to deliver it via the internet

March 2015

  • Made in Leeds: interviewed drinkers about their 'pulling' technique

    Media Monkey
    Local TV station debuts with a C-bomb in 'how to pull' show

    Made in Leeds rapped by watchdog for airing offensive language on its very first show – and then repeating it at 8am
  • Ed Vaizey: hailed London Live as 'another great success'.

    Media Monkey
    Ed Vaizey overplays the local TV factor

    Culture minister appears to be speaking tongue-in-cheek when he claims Jeremy Hunt’s initiative is ‘a stunning success’
  • Ed Vaizey

    Ed Vaizey defends appointment of ‘incredibly impressive’ BBC Trust chair

    Communications minister says Rona Fairhead will do a very good job, while admitting governance of corporation would be an issue for charter renewal

February 2015

  • Ashley Highfield.

    'Local media can deliver in a way the BBC never can' – full text of Johnston Press CEO's letter

    Read the full, unedited text of Ashley Highfield’s open letter to the BBC in response to publication of its report on the future of news

January 2015

  • Evgeny Lebedev

    London Live local television station to cut third of staff

    Evgeny Lebedev’s channel to re-invest savings made from around 20 people going from news and current affairs team into programming content

December 2014

  • Greenslade
    Westminster seminar to discuss the future for local media

    Speakers lined up to for big discussion next spring

November 2014

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Jury still out as local TV celebrates its first anniversary

    Roy Greenslade
    After launches in 12 towns and cities, visibility, quality and revenue remain problematic, contends Roy Greenslade
  • Birmingham

    Local TV licence for Birmingham given to Kaleidoscope after City TV collapse

    Ofcom hands contract to new consortium that includes former City TV backer Mike Prince
  • Richard Nixon Eating with Zhou Enlai and Chang Chun-chiao

    Media Monkey
    Ofcom boss channels Zhou Enlai in downbeat take on local TV ‘revolution’

    Media Monkey: Ed Richards: ‘Too early to say’ if city TV stations will succeed
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