No public subsidy for outdated regional news.
Jeremy has warned media consortiums bidding for public money to supply regional television that a Conservative Government would not continue with the scheme.
‘This is because we want to see the emergence of a radically different, improved and forward-looking local media sector. Not just local TV – where we are about the only major developed country not to have proper city-based TV franchises – but profitable, hungry and ambitious local radio, local newspapers and local websites as well.’
You can read Jeremy’s full speech HERE and media coverage of it in the Guardian HERE and Telegraph HERE.
