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What happened to Local TV?

Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?

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Andy Brain is a co-editor of Red Pepper and founder of Pacifica Affiliate community station Beware! The Radio

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