Where i live near Rochdale/Manchester, there's a couple of local radio folk programmes that i listen to that are excellent - Lancashire drift(radio lancashire - thursdays at 8pm) which has been going for yonks and is brill. There's also Ali O'Brian's Sounds of Folk (Mondays on GMR at 8pm) still in its early days but is well worth a listen. So perhaps local radio is the answer to the British 'folk' media drought. I decided a long time ago, trying to get the national radio/tv to give our traditional music and performers sufficient airtime and recognition is like p'ing against the proverbial wind!