[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Inactive Digital

What you descibe sounds like ITV all over again That would be egg on the faces of Ofcom and it's predecessors - allow the various ITV franchise holders to water down their seemingly unsustainable PSB obligations to regional programming, only to start the process of a regional TV network all over again but with reduced coverage.

Originally Posted by nodrogd

ITV. Independent Local Radio (as it was once). Lovely nice local services. But all more interested in saving money and joining the race to the bottom, which of course they were then allowed to do by the very regualtory body that now want to give us local services by milking money off the BBC (which is the only outfit still providing local services on TV & Radio).

What a crazy country we live in. Are the services there for the people, or the people there for the services? If you are a commercial organisation it will always be the latter.

Totally agree​.