London Live

I wonder how awkward that was? What To Watch seems pretty much the same as it was and I recorded and watched the London Film Club show but wasn't that impressed. Wasn't that a name they gave to a strand for showing actual films a while ago because it sounds very familiar?

The strand is London Film House

I wonder how awkward that was? What To Watch seems pretty much the same as it was and I recorded and watched the London Film Club show but wasn't that impressed. Wasn't that a name they gave to a strand for showing actual films a while ago because it sounds very familiar?


So it is.

Steve Auckland on London Live:



http://www.cityam.com/245573/good-result-job-done-meet-independent-newspapers-last-chief

To lose £6.3m suggests they had to spend at least that amount, something which isn't really evident on screen.

Mobile bills for the LiveU packs?

Staff don't grow on trees, rent for a prime location in London, depreciation of facilities?

Well if they keep going for a few more years you would hope the trend would be that they end up breaking even somehow.

Part of it has to be if Two Beards is still interested in his vanity project? The Independent website is making money, despite closing the loss making print part of the business. The Standard is making money, yet London Live is still losing money despite cutting the debt in half.

Any potential buyer will have to take on the costs of operating the 5.5 hours per day of news. That's TV struggle with providing a basic service, so that's them out of the equation. Made TV possibly with the cost savings of networking some output from other sites or an independent organisation who can reduce costs further without degrading the news output.

Viacom. They could extend their Channel 5 news contract with ITN to cover the news output, they've got a massive existing catalogue of shows to fill the schedule, and they've already got all the back-office operations like ad sales.

I reckon they could turn London Live into a better channel and still cut costs.

They wouldn't have any interest in taking over a failing channel with expensive PSB requirements when they can easily launch a new one with no such handcuffs.

I wonder what the annual costs of producing the 5.5hrs a week are vs the other output they produce, programmes they buy and everything else.