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Rillington · 10-02-2023, 17:56

At the end of the 2000s, ITV in England stopped broadcasting non-news regional programming in England

Now the BBC is seemingly about to do the same. Inside Out ended a few years ago and I believe that the replacement pan-regional This is England series is also about to end thereby signalling the end of non-news regional programming in England by the BBC.

And the local TV experiment has also effectively ended with the local channels seemingly only broadcasting brief news bulletins.

Should the English cities and regions have some sort of provision for local and regional programmes outside of news or are we in an era where people no longer want to watch non-news programmes on television about their local city and region?

10-02-2023, 17:56	#1
Rillington cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Services: Virgin Media, DAB Posts: 1,156	The end of regional/local TV in England At the end of the 2000s, ITV in England stopped broadcasting non-news regional programming in England Now the BBC is seemingly about to do the same. Inside Out ended a few years ago and I believe that the replacement pan-regional This is England series is also about to end thereby signalling the end of non-news regional programming in England by the BBC. And the local TV experiment has also effectively ended with the local channels seemingly only broadcasting brief news bulletins. Should the English cities and regions have some sort of provision for local and regional programmes outside of news or are we in an era where people no longer want to watch non-news programmes on television about their local city and region?