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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.
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Agreed, but the difference between the new cable channels set up and ITV as was is that ITV worked. The local areas served have to be big enough to be economical.
There is already egg on faces. Better to admit that and start rectifying the position by enlarging the franchise areas.