'Can Local Television Work? Enthusiasm. Martin Shipton Looks at Both Sides

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ANY in television are puzzled that at a time when the BBC is having to make its biggest spending cuts ever, the future of S4C is uncertain and advertising revenue is drying up, 165 towns - including six in Wales - could soon have their own TV channels.

The Welsh sites - Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Bangor and Mold - make up an incongruous list until you realise they are where our nation's major TV transmitters are based.

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'Can Local Television Work? Enthusiasm. Martin Shipton Looks at Both Sides

Concerns have also focused on comments by media expert Ian Hargreaves, a professor in Cardiff University's journalism school, that the school could become involved in a TV project in the capital city.

David Donovan, national org...

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