[CMA TV] Local TV Publications

[Bill Best]

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From: Dave Rushton <local.tv at virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:28:41 +0000

LOCAL TELEVISION PUBLICATIONS from the Institute of Local Television

LOCAL television REPORT - ACTO local public service television
papers/,* ISBN: 1 899405 04 6, published by School Press/ACTO/Institute
of Local Television, (December 2005), £13.50 inc p&p 144 pgs. Softback.
CONTENTS I Preamble. ii Introduction. ONE Questions & Answers: Natalie
White’s: Questions on the Future of Local Television; Ofcom’s: Assessing
the Future of Local Television and Interactive Services: A Survey for
Stakeholders. TWO European Background: Assessing Opportunities for Local
TV Across Europe; THREE Case Histories: Triangle TV Auckland; Open
Channels Germany; Open Channel Berlin; Teveline: Reality Show vs Real
People; Channel Six Dundee plus Audience Research; ‘e-tv’ in Aberfeldy.
FOUR Local Spectrum & Costs: The Add/drop Solution and Local Network
Channel; How Big or Small is Local TV?; A Stab at Local TV Costs. FIVE
Shifting Policies: Media Literacy, Local Licences and Local Government;
God’s Own Spectrum: Local TV and the Public Good; Regional Variations in
Production Spend; Bigger Picture on the Smaller Screen; Valuing Local
Public Service Television. SIX Nutshell: ACTO Checklist to Ofcom, April
2005.
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LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED: essays on local television 1994-2005/*
published by School Press for the Institute of Local Television, (August
2005). £13.50 inc p&p 112 pgs, Softback
*/LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED/* provides a vigorous critique of the
political impact of public service broadcasting since 1990 and argues
for two hundred plus independent local, community and municipal
television channels in line with developments underway across Europe.
*/LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED/* outlines how these proposals for local TV
channels can be introduced as part of digital switchover from 2008 and
expanded via broadband.
*/LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED/* is the fifth volume on local television to
be published by the Institute of Local Television - published either
with John Libbey, the Community Radio Association (CRA, now the
Community Media Association) or on the ILT imprint: School Press.
*/LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED: essays on local television 1994-2005/*,
ISBN:1 899405 03 8, Dave Rushton, published by School Press (2005)
£13.50 inc p&p 112 pgs Softback CONTENTS Preamble; Introduction;
Technical Background; Virtual Reality; Vicarious and Experiential TV
News; A General Theory of Spectrum; Defining the Social Geography of
Local News Identity; Assessing opportunities for local digital TV across
Europe; Add/Drop and the Local Network Channel. APPENDICES: A Local
Television Reader; Scottish Local TV Forum Report; Some pointers for
filming local TV news and short documentaries
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CITIZEN TELEVISION: a local dimension to Public Service
Broadcasting/, /ISBN: 0 86196 433 0 edited by Dave Rushton, published
by John Libbey & Institute of Local Television (1993) £19.50 inc p&p 232
pgs Hardback CONTENTS PART ONE - Research & Analysis: Citizens and the
Local Choice. Edinburgh Television Study, Peter Kitchenman; Cable
Company Franchise Commitments, Adrian Friedli; Highways Authority
Experience of UK Cable Build, Inken Schindler; Local Authority Cable
Briefing, Lyndsey Bowditch; Reading the ITC’s Mapping Regional Views,
Dave Rushton; Survey of Local Channels on UK Cable, 1992, Julie White; A
Local Future on Cable?, Dave Rushton PART TWO - Commentary & Critique,
Local Public Service Television. Making Local Work, Dave Rushton;
Amendments to the ITC’s Draft Invitation to Apply for Channel 5, Amanda
Gibbs & Dave Rushton; Channel 5 and Local Television, Dave Rushton;
‘Star Rating’ Channel 5 Transmitters, Dave Rushton; The European Meeting
of Local Television, Dave Rushton. APPENDICES, Section 7 Cable and
Broadcasting Act, 1984; Local Channel Survey, 1989, Peter Kitchenman;
Tables 9-14, 16, 19 & 21, Peter Kitchenman; Cable Growth, 1983-1992;
Pilot Local C5 Survey Edinburgh, 1990, Lyndsey Bowditch; C3 Regional
Populations and C5 Transmitter Populations
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LOCAL TELEVISION REVIEWED: essays on local television 1982-1993,/
/ISBN: 1 899405 003 Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey & Institute
of Local Television (1994) £9.50 inc p&p 48 pgs Softback CONTENTS
Introduction; Cable, Cable TV and Video; Work! Work!!; Cultural, Racial,
Economic, Political, Social & Class Bias (etc) ... on TV; Swindon
Viewpoint, Aberdeen Cable, Cable Authority and the Grapevine Channel;
Origins of UK Cable; Cable, Channel 4 and Tape Distribution.
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CREATING LOCAL TELEVISION: local and community television under the
Restricted Services Licence/*, 1 899405 01 1 Dave Rushton, published by
John Libbey, Institute of Local Television & CMA (1997) £10.50 inc p&p
78 pgs Softback CONTENTS PART ONE - Policy and Intervention. Policy and
intervention; PART TWO - Preparing a TV RSL; Locating frequency channels
for TV RSLs; Blueprint for a TV RSL; Organising a TV RSL; APPENDICES.
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DON QUIXOTE’S ART & TELEVISION: seeing things in art and television/*,
ISBN: 1 899405 02 X Dave Rushton with an introduction by Terry Atkinson,
published by School Press (1998) £8.50 inc p&p 48 pgs Softback. CONTENTS
Introduction, Terry Atkinson; Noisy Channel; Art & Artifice: or designs
on the past; Open Channels and Media Literacy.

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