"We don't recognise London Live as a Local TV station. It's a London station therefore it's national."
I think that London Live itself is probably more like a national station than local, but I think he's wrong in saying that a London station can never be local. There's enough going on in London for a service that is just for and of interest to Londoners.
The Evening Standard is as much of a national paper as the Birmingham Mail is
London Live does appear to resemble a national station only because the majority of the programming it shows has previously been seen on national channels.
It's licence commitment however is to show at least 8 hours of 'original' programming each day, which in my opinion could have easily been achieved by proving a decent rolling news service at breakfast, lunchtime, early evening and late evening, using the acquired repeats to provide a decent sustaining service and 'eyeballs' for the channel.
It still has this commitment but is failing to deliver both on quality and quantity.
Some things I've spotted on the schedule of Big Centre TV..
They seem to have bought some cookery programmes from Latest TV Brighton, including Cook It with Andrew Kay and International Chef Exchange, but the latter is only being shown one on a Sunday afternoon.
There is 90 minutes of Bowls EVERY weekday afternoon.
The Sofa Club is a technology programme on nightly at 19:00 except Wednesdays - if this is a new edition every time I will be impressed.
The only current affairs programming is late on a Friday evening. However, pleased to see a big commitment to news.
The schedule is heavily reliant on Cuppa TV which is on 4 or sometimes 5 times a day.
If they are going to repeat stuff, they should do it more evenly, rather than some being repeated heavily and others only getting one outing.
A bit of digging deeper, the catch up TV link on BCTV's website takes you to NEXI.TV who are a Birmingham based internet TV company, with 6 shows on BCTV - if you go to the Bollyheat programme page, you'll also see a Latest TV link, so it looks like it's a two-way thing, with perhaps BCTV selling content on behalf of producers.
BWC Wrestling is also broadcast on Estuary TV, not sure who makes it.