UTV and NWN Media's Wales Live partnership had previously been announced as the preferred bidder for the Government’s Independently Funded News Consortium (IFNC) pilot project in Wales.

However the Secretary of State for Culture Jeremy Hunt announced on the 8 June 2010 that the IFNC projects for Wales, Scotland and North East / Border area were not to proceed.

Wales Live will continue to work towards sustainable and high quality cross-platform local news.