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The terms '''local programme''', '''local programming''', '''local content''' or '''local television''' refers to a [[television program]]
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 ''[[
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
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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]] (
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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 on Television]]'', both of which were broadcast across both Canada and the [[United States]].
The term is also generally accepted to refer to television programming that is not produced by a broadcast or other media source for national or international distribution ([[broadcast syndication]]). Usually programming of local interest is produced by either a [[Public, educational, and government access]] (PEG) television organization, [[cable TV]] operator or [[broadcast network]] [[affiliate]] stations that offer local [[radio news]] and [[television news]].▼
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.
===Placeholder use of term===▼
Additionally, the term is used in a more generic form in the United States, [[Canada]], [[Mexico]] and other countries in the [[Western Hemisphere]] as a [[Placeholder name|placeholder term]] within published national program guide listings in publications such as the post-2006 format ''[[TV Guide]]'' or ''[[USA Today]]'' which only carry the default schedules of national networks, where the "local programming" designation replaces detailed listings for a local station that would be impossible to print in a national publication. Outside of local newscasts and some rare non-news programming however, the term merely describes time periods under a local station's control, where [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] content airs rather than true local programming. For equivalent [[electronic program guide]] listings for [[set-top box]]es, the term is used mainly with PEG stations which do not have a schedule compiled by a cable operator as a default placeholder; other instances are with only broadcast stations who outright refuse or do not release their program listings due to lack of staff, though as advertisers usually demand a minimum schedule to place their ads on a television station, the vast majority of broadcast stations do provide program listings.▼
In radio, virtually all Canadian commercial radio stations are officially programmed locally, although many stations cut costs by contracting some dayparts out to [[voice-tracking|voice-tracked]] hosts who are not actually located in the station's physical studio or even necessarily in the same city, using a [[home studio]], and may even be performing their show from the United States. The [[CBC Radio One]], [[CBC Radio 2]], [[Ici Radio-Canada Première]] and [[Ici Musique]] networks consist primarily of networked national programming, although all include [[CBC Radio One local programming|some degree of local programming]] in certain time blocks. Radio One and Première stations have a significant number of production centres which create and air their own local morning and/or afternoon talk shows, while Radio 2's and Ici Musique's local content is limited to local news and weather updates.
===List of local programs in the United States===▼
== United States==
▲The term is also generally accepted to refer to television programming that is not produced by a broadcast or other media source for national or international distribution ([[broadcast syndication]]). Usually programming of local interest is produced by either a [[Public, educational, and government access]] (PEG) television organization, [[cable TV]] operator or [[broadcast network]] [[Network affiliate|affiliate]] stations that offer local [[radio news]] and [[television news]].
▲===Placeholder use of term===
▲Additionally, the term is used in a more generic form in the United States, [[Canada]], [[Mexico]] and other countries in the [[Western Hemisphere]] as a [[Placeholder name|placeholder term]] within published national program guide listings in publications such as the post-2006 format ''[[TV Guide]]'' or ''[[USA Today]]'' which only carry the default schedules of national networks, where the "local programming" designation replaces detailed listings for a local station that would be impossible to print in a national publication. Outside of local newscasts and some rare non-news programming however, the term merely describes time periods under a local station's control, where [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] content airs rather than true local programming. For equivalent [[electronic program guide]] listings for [[set-top box]]es, the term is used mainly with [[Public, educational, and government access|PEG stations and networks]] which do not have a schedule compiled by a cable operator as a default placeholder; other instances are with only broadcast stations who outright refuse or do not release their program listings due to lack of staff, though as advertisers usually demand a minimum schedule to place their ads on a television station (and most of these stations are associated with smaller national [[digital subchannel]] networks which do provide a default schedule for distribution), the vast majority of broadcast stations do provide program listings. Wikipedia itself also uses this designation in its series of [[Lists of United States network television schedules|American network television schedule]] articles for non-network programming time.
==United Kingdom==
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Many [[List of television stations in the United Kingdom#Local TV broadcasters|local television stations]] in the United Kingdom ceased broadcasting due to a lack of viability, but some stations are still being broadcast
*[[Midlands Asian Television|Midlands Asian Television (MATV)]]▼
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==See also==
* [[Advertorial]], a common form of local programming in North America where local businesses advertise their products and services
* [[Regional television in Australia]]▼
▲* [[Local television in the United Kingdom]]
* [[Local television in Greece]]
* [[Local origination (disambiguation)]]
* [[Network affiliate]]
▲* [[Regional television in Australia]]
* [[Regional variation]]
==References==
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