Originally Posted by -ajm-:
“Is travel a licence requirement or just local news?”
I don't think it is, but I have read somewhere on Ofcom's localness guidelines that travel news can be used to demonstrate the 'localness' of a station.
Global's stations could easily do networked drive-time shows and drop in regional travel news, as was demonstrated when Capital were live at the torch relay concert. The show was networked at drive time, with local news & travel dropped in.
They could do it over time, change to this. Although I guess in some areas some people would still expect to hear something vaguely local at drivetime?