Residents of Bangor, Barnstaple, Bromsgrove, Derry/Londonderry, Forth Valley, Gloucester, Inverness, Kidderminster, Limavady, Luton, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Stratford-upon-Avon, will have to cry themselves to sleep tonight, after the news that Ofcom isn't going to issue local tv licences for their towns.
The decision was taken after a 'public consultation', to which there were six responses. Two were from existing stations, arguing that money 'saved' from these previously-proposed licences should be re-distributed to them. Professor Tim Luckhurst, from KMTV, a collaboration between the Kent Media Group and the University of Kent, argued "that the BBC can afford to provide longer-term additional financial
support to the existing stations". Craig Chettle, of Notts TV wrote "We believe that there remain latent economies
in the BBC which could be introduced with relative ease to create an ongoing budget of the scale previously enjoyed." Selfless, huh ?
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