Can local TV stations work in the UK?

Name: Can local TV stations work in the UK?
Uploaded: 2012-08-13T17:32:07.000Z
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: The application deadline has passed for the right to run local TV stations across the UK. As many as 21 new services could be set up under the plans, originally announced by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.

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Today marked the deadline for towns and cities across the UK to apply to run new local digital TV stations.

Is it an important milestone for regional broadcasting, or an economically unviable service for which there's no proven demand?

Chris Vallance reports.

13 August 2012