[CMA TV] ACTO - COMMUNITY RADIO CAMPAIGN FOR LOCAL TV

[Dave Rushton]

Dear Colleagues,

The COMMUNITY RADIO CAMPAIGN FOR LOCAL TV launches in two weeks.

To supplement its Petition the CAMPAIGN FOR LOCAL TV is being provided 
ten x 8-15 minute radio interviews with authors appearing at the August 
2005 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Covering Irish literature, 
the Indian consciousness in a global world, the indefensible might of 
The Corporation, the novel in Eastern Europe the Viking sagas and Local 
Television (oh yes!) these interviews are free to broadcast on 
community radio.

Leith FM has been airing these interviews over Christmas and New Year 
and the viewer response has been ..... Fantastic - 'I loved the 
interviews' wrote the station coordinator. One viewer even emailed the 
station ..... 'It's 4.00pm on 29 Dec 2005 and I am listening to the 
best interview on LeithFM .... Who is the American guy and who is the 
interviewer. I want to buy his book. Great stuff. Electra'

Now here's the deal - together with the 140 minutes of interviews there 
is a short commercial promoting the Campaign for Local TV which ACTO, 
the Institute of Local Television and The Broadcasting Trust are 
supporting: all we would like you to do is air the commercial when you 
transmit an interview and possibly and if appropriate to interview a 
Campaign for Local TV activist who is campaigning for Local TV your 
area.

If you are on-air and would like these Interview CDs together with the 
Campaign for Local TV commercial please email local.tv at virgin.net with 
your address and mark the email 'CDs'.

With best wishes,



Dave Rushton
Institute of Local Television