[comtv-l] Swindon Viewpoint: Forty years of community television [BBC]

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As a nationwide rollout of new local TV stations begins, the only survivor
of the UK's first attempt at community television has reached its 40th
anniversary.

Swindon Viewpoint <http://www.swindonviewpoint.com/> started in late 1973
after the town was one of five chosen by the government to take part in a
public television experiment.

The service was then broadcast by fledgling cable company, Radio Rentals.

It eventually went off air in the mid-1990s, but continued online.

Chairman Martin Parry, who has been involved with Swindon Viewpoint since
1980, said it has been called the "original YouTube", and described it as a
"community media success story".
More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-25231565

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