Tories propose 80 local TV stations

According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge
of the subject?

Chris

Chris wrote:
According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece


I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Ofcom have wasted (IMHO) loads of our money devising frequency plans to
cater for this mad (IMHO) plan.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/cond...eaved/summary/

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Chris wrote:
According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge
of the subject?

I'd say so. If ITV can't afford local news can't see how a local TV
station could pay for itself. Unless run by volunteers.

Chris

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Chris wrote:
According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge
of the subject?

I'd say so. If ITV can't afford local news can't see how a local TV
station could pay for itself. Unless run by volunteers.

Chris


Governments of either colour are always looking for a stick to beat the BBC
with so they'd take funds out of the BBC licence fee for the non-existent
'public broadcasting benefit' that such a service will offer.

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Reinventing the wheel again then.

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According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and nobody's
aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge of
the subject?

Chris

I propose a day like they used to have in Iceland where ther is no tv for a
whole day.

Brian

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According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and nobody's
aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge of
the subject?

Chris

Mark Carver wrote:
Chris wrote:
According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV
stations to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece


I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV
will still come from a limited number if sites that are not
city-specific. I guess you could add some new local transmitters but
they would need to transmit their own local multiplex on an additional
frequency and nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Ofcom have wasted (IMHO) loads of our money devising frequency plans to
cater for this mad (IMHO) plan.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/cond...eaved/summary/


Thanks Mike. That looks like it. The document describes the "81 possible
sites" that the times article quotes.

I can't help thinking that in the future the city populations that such
local stations are aimed at will get their TV and other media on-demand
through a high speed internet connections rather than over the air.
That way anyone who wants to produce local content can make it available
- although whether there would be an audience is another matter.

Chris

Brian Gaff wrote:
I propose a day like they used to have in Iceland where ther is no tv for a
whole day.

Brian


Better get the sky+ disk filled up ready then

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:24:03 +0100, Chris
wrote:

According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece

I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge
of the subject?


The Roman politicians kept their plebs under control by entertaining
them with circuses - gladiators killing each other and lions eating
Christians.
Modern day politicians want to keep the populace quiet by feeding us
with *virtual* circuses on the magic box. The more channels the
better.

Chris wrote:
According to today's Times, the tories would introduce local TV stations
to 80 towns and cities after 2012.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6715236.ece


I assume the 2012 date is something to do with the end of digital
switchover but I still don't see how it would work. Terrestrial TV will
still come from a limited number if sites that are not city-specific. I
guess you could add some new local transmitters but they would need to
transmit their own local multiplex on an additional frequency and
nobody's aerial would be pointing at them anyway.

Maybe the new service would be internet based and we would use media
players and mobile phones to watch.

Is this just another example of politicians spouting with no knowledge
of the subject?

Chris
A bit like the BBC's idea, which was running successfully as a pilot, of
local TV on DTT. And was deemed not needed by the government.

Richard