It's not just the Beeb that cutting

Iain Dale writes a good post about the effect of the ITV network cutting back on local news, subject refered to in this blog earlier.

Iain writes

It seems to be completely mad that ITV wish to but their regions from 12 to 9. ITV Meridian plans to axe the programme which serves the South East and replace it with one which covers an area from Southend to Weymouth, and up to Swindon. At a time when the internet means that localised services are expanding all the time, ITV is moving to centralise their news operations. Perhaps the day of local TV news really is over

TV news is going to get a lot of attention this week when it appears that the BBC job cuts are going to be directed at news services rather than channels/programme principles.Let's not take our eyes off what is happening at Itv.