[cma-l] Local TV - consultation deadline 23 Sept

[Tony Bailey]

If that was TV-TV, when I watched it they hadn't got as far as moving 
pictures. If we are talking about Local tv using their own tx, a digital 
bouquet with only one channel? - not very practical.

Tony Bailey

Ian Hickling wrote:
>  
> 
> I have to say that I don't have a great deal of confidence in the 
> concept of local TV - having been unvolved in exactly such a project in 
> Reading 10 years ago.
> But I am in agreement with Steve on the transmission aspects.
> Hooking up with or into existing station equipment and service areas 
> would be far too costly and coverage would not be relevant.
> Transmission planning for suitable coverage is identical in process to 
> what we do now with FM - for CRs, ILRs and RSLs.
> The structures and antenna systems required for Band IV/V TV are a 
> totally parallel technology.
> The transmission and linking electronics are again relatively cheap and 
> readily available.
> Only the digital encoding aspect is currently complex and pricey - but 
> that will inevitably reduce with development and demand.
> So the infrastructure hardware wouldn't be a problem.
> Only the provision of suitable quality and quantity of broadcast 
> material as I see it.
> That and selling airtime!
>  
> Does this all sound a bit too familiar?
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> *Ian Hickling
> **Partner
> transplan UK
> *
> 
> 
>  
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:52:45 +0100
> To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> From: sbuckley at gn.apc.org
> Subject: [cma-l] Local TV - consultation deadline 23 Sept
> 
> Dear all
>  
> Earlier this month CMA and Sheffield City Council 
> hosted a national consultation event on DCMS 
> proposals for local television. Over 50 
> participants converged on Sheffield from as far 
> afield as Scotland, London and the South West. 
> The event was supported by CM Solutions, Cultural 
> Industries Quarter Agency and 
> Showroom/Workstation who are also working, as 
> part of a wider consortium, to develop a 
> Sheffield local television channel. There was a 
> strong consensus among those present that, 
> although the general commitment to develop local 
> TV should be warmly welcomed, the proposal to 
> require local TV channels to use a single 
> monopoly provider (MuxCo) for transmission should 
> be rejected. Instead the local TV channels should 
> be free to own and operate their own transmission 
> systems, in the same way that community radio currently does.
>  
> The deadline for comments to DCMS is Friday 23 
> September. Please join us and others in calling 
> on Jeremy Hunt to say No to the MuxCo monopoly.
>  
> Responses should be sent to: local.tv at culture.gsi.gov.uk
>  
> For those of you that missed the event or are 
> beavering away on a more detailed response to the 
> DCMS consultation, below is a summary of the 
> conclusions and recommendations and attached is a 
> copy of my presentation to the event.
>  
> Best wishes
>  
> Steve
>  
> //
>a-l


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