UK broadcast regulator has written to local TV channel operators to remind them that local news must remain at the centre of their offering.

  • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I can’t help but feel that this is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Commercial TV is in the toilet as everybody moves to online services. We can see what’s happened with local newspapers disappearing followed not that long later by the national press. It’s great for an unaccountable regulator to pontificate about a requirement for so many hours per day of news, but really does anyone under 60 really need that today? If you want news then you would look at a news source- why would you wait until the next scheduled news bulletin on your channel in an hour or 2 hours time?