The government’s plans for local TV puts too much of an onus on these stations to provide content for the national networks: local TV should focus on local issues

The government‘s framework for local TV aims to support local stations by buying their content to syndicate nationally. But, in the second of three articles, Sally Broughton-Micova, finds that a lack of local material and the relatively small amounts of money that are involved means that the government’s plans for commercially self-sustaining local TV stations are not realistic.