The GMG decision to sell the Manchester Evening news stable to Trinity Mirror is clearly an important development in the ever-changing landscape of the UK's provincial press. However, from a broadcast news perspective, it is the absence from the deal of Manchester television station Channel M which is particularly interesting.
As mentioned elsewhere on this blog, the Tory idea for securing plurality in regional television news is the creation of dozens of city-based services across the country akin to Channel M. Trinity's decision not to buy the station may have been purely a strategic one. However, if the station is not soon snapped up from a GMG which seems willing to sell, a question mark would surely hang over the viability of the services which are a key tranche of Tory broadcasting policy. And maybe then Jeremy Hunt's vehement opposition to those ITV regional news pilots might seem a little out of step.
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