Editing Independent Local Radio (section)

{{Short description|Commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom}}
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[[File:Independent Local Radio logo.png|thumb|right|Logo used by the [[Independent Broadcasting Authority]] for promoting Independent Local Radio services in the 1980s.]]<!-- FAIR USE of Image:Independent_Local_Radio_logo.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Independent_Local_Radio_logo.jpg for rationale -->
'''Independent Local Radio''' is the collective name given to [[Commercial broadcasting|commercial radio]] stations in the United Kingdom. 

As a result of the buyouts and mergers permitted by the [[Broadcasting Act 1990]], and deregulation resulting from the [[Communications Act 2003]], most commercial stations are now neither independent (although they remain independent from the [[BBC]]) nor local, as almost all of them are now relays of a national brand, with all remaining locality reduced to nothing more than a weekday regional programme and localised commercials, news, weather and peak-time travel information.

The same name is used for Independent Local Radio in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].