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For example, a local sports programme will present results, interviews and coverage of games or matches, just like a network sports programme, but it would only feature teams and players from within the broadcaster's transmission area.

In some cases a [[television network]] programme may include a local element as well. This is particularly the case in the [[Television in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] and still happens today{{when|date=November 2023}} with ''[[The Politics Show]]''. The [[BBC]] regions will all [[opt-out]] at the same time from the main programme to present a locally produced segment.

Sometimes locally made programmes that are not too specific to the transmission area, will be sold to other local stations for broadcast in their region.

Historically there was a large percentage of local programming on television. Late in the 20th century this has significantly fallen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/speeches/2004/11/ipprrf|title=What Future for Regional TV?|last=Foster|first=Robin|date=November 2004|publisher=Ofcom|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041523/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/speeches/2004/11/ipprrf|archivedate=30 September 2007|accessdate=2007-06-12}}

</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://keywords.dsvr.co.uk/freepress/body.phtml?category=&id=842|title=We must save regional TV|last=McLaughlin|first=Paul|date=November 2004|publisher=Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928002355/http://keywords.dsvr.co.uk/freepress/body.phtml?category=&id=842|archive-date=28 September 2007|accessdate=2007-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=887 |title=Ofcom slashes ITV local programming |accessdate=2007-06-12 |date=February 2005 |publisher=[[National Union of Journalists]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608224445/http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=887 |archivedate=8 June 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/insidetv/regionalism/regionalism_a_s.php|title=Regional TV – a spent force?|last=Hopkins|first=Stephen|date=March 2006|publisher=Transdiffusion|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913024631/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/insidetv/regionalism/regionalism_a_s.php|archivedate=13 September 2007|accessdate=2007-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/insidetv/regionalism/deja.php|title=Regional TV – Déjà vu Down Under|last=Palmer|first=Danny|date=June 2003|publisher=Transdiffusion|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404071532/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/insidetv/regionalism/deja.php|archivedate=4 April 2007|accessdate=2007-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00194.htm |title=NZ made programmes lowest since Charter introduced |accessdate=2007-06-12 |last=Kedgley |first=Sue |date=May 2007 |publisher=[http://www.greens.org.nz Green Party of New Zealand] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930030703/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00194.htm |archivedate=30 September 2007 }}</ref> In many cases the only local programmes on a television station today will be the [[local news]]cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stateofthemedia.org/2004/local-tv-intro/|title=State of the US local news media|author=Project for Excellence in Journalism|year=2004|publisher=Journalism.org|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509012859/http://stateofthemedia.org/2004/local-tv-intro/|archivedate=9 May 2011|accessdate=2007-06-12}}</ref>

The above can also apply to [[radio station|radio]]. A national [[radio network]] may have local studios or affiliates who opt-out at various times to present local programs and content.

In the late-1950s, many of the early Australian television series such as ''[[Melbourne Magazine]]'' (1957), [[Sydney Tonight]] (1956-19591956–1959), and ''[[TV Talent Scout]]'' (1957-19581957–1958) were broadcast in only a single city.

==Canada==

In Canada, historically local television stations produced a significant volume of local programming, including newscasts, locally or regionally oriented talk shows, and variety entertainment programs such as ''[[Tiny Talent Time]]'' or ''[[Homegrown Cafe]]''; a few stations, such as [[CHCH-DT|CHCH-TV]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]] and [[CJOH]] in [[Ottawa]], also distributed some of their local programming more widely through [[television syndication]], most notably CHCH's ''[[Hilarious House of Frightenstein]]'' and CJOH's ''[[You Can't Do That Onon Television]]'', both of which were broadcast across both Canada and the [[United States]].

With the cross-national [[consolidation of media ownership|consolidation]] of Canadian media ownership in the 1990s and 2000s, network-affiliated stations now rarely produce much more than their own local or regional newscasts, although some stations may continue to produce a small amount of additional local programming. Independent stations may produce more local programming, although such stations are now rare in the Canadian media landscape.