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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I wish someone would threaten that in the US. You wouldn’t believe how much of local newscasts here is national news and regurgitated product press releases. And yet the “local” news runs like ten times per day.