They are due to start operating by October, and will include city news, sports and community participation.

BBC: STV awarded Glasgow and Edinburgh local TV licences

Last year, Facebook began showing ads to its mobile audience by shoehorning corporate-sponsored content into users' news feeds, which also include updates from friends and brands they follow.

NPR: Eyes On Facebook Mobile Event As Company Evolves

The newsletter included information on where the Conchords would be playing next and undoubtedly had they ever gotten more than three fans included on the newsletter, it would also include news on future gig information.

FORBES: 5 Entrepreneurial Lessons Taught By The Flight Of The Conchords

They include Piperlime, an online shoe site created by Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) 19 months ago that offers a similar shipping and return policy as Zappos.

FORBES: A Step Ahead

We have selected them on the basis that they produce an RSS feed of news stories available through Moreover, that the stories are originated and not simply a rehash of agency stories, that they are general news sites, not campaigning or single issue sites, that the feed does not include adverts, and finally that they have a certain scale across your city, county or region.

BBC: links to other news sites