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First 20 Local TV sites

Ofcom has announced today the towns and cities that will be in the first wave of local television.

Ofcom has announced today the towns and cities that will be in
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From Ofcom:

Ofcom today is proposing 20 specific sites for consultation that should constitute the minimum rollout requirement for the local television multiplex licence that Ofcom will advertise, if proposed legislation is passed by Parliament.

These are selected from the sites where local TV is technically possible and we consider there is a potential local service operator, and selected to achieve a range of locations across the UK, and a range of scales of operation. We also take into account evidence of strong local demand.

The 20 sites are: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea.

Each of these towns or cities is the principal conurbation within the technically-possible coverage area. Some transmission areas cover secondary conurbations too, and where coverage is good enough, we will consider applications for local services targeted at these.

In addition, we propose to ask applicants for the multiplex licence how many sites they will cover, on top of this minimum. We propose to award the multiplex licence partly based on the extent of this additional coverage. Additional sites should be in areas where there is an interested local service operator. Currently we believe that these sites are: Aberdeen, Ayr, Bangor, Barnstable, Basingstoke, Bedford, Cambridge, Carlisle, Derry/Londonderry, Dundee, Guildford, Hereford, Inverness, Kidderminster, Limavady, Luton, Maidstone, Malvern, Mold, Salisbury, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent, Stratford upon Avon and York.



Further detail now at Ofcom - Licensing Local Television - How Ofcom would exercise its new powers and duties being proposed by Government.



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Monday, 19 December 2011
Briantist
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9:05 AM

Des Collier: See Local TV on Freeview - new Ofcom maps | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for the map. The service comes on a narrow beam from Belmont.

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Thursday, 5 January 2012
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Des Collier
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7:44 PM

Thanks,Brian,that,s all i wanted to know.Des.

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Sunday, 15 January 2012
Briantist
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9:03 AM

Des Collier: I stuck the UK-wide map at the top of the page too.

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