Monday, July 19th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
During the last parliament there was an attempt to launch regional news broadcasts, which would replace the local news coverage that is shown on ITV.
This plan was scrapped by the coalition government on the grounds of cost, but it appears local news provision is back on menu.
The culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has released a timetable that could see the local media providing a very local TV news service but, before this can take place, the media regulator Ofcom will have to change the rules that currently prevent cross media ownership.
In order to address this issue, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has issued a draft timetable that will see these rules relaxed and open the door for local press to run local TV stations.
SatelliteTVforPCelite.org – How To Watch Local Channels On PC – Watch TV on your PC. No extra equipment required. Watch local TV, world TV, Live TV, satellite TV from countries of all world in different languages on your PC with anyTV not just at home, but at the OFFICE … Download – Features – Screenshots – Purchase www.anytvplayer.com – Cached – Similar 2. Watch NBC, CBS, FOX, And Other Local Channels Online 12 May 2008 … Watch NBC, CBS, FOX, And Other Local Channels Online. … Free PC TV Online. Did you know there was such a thing? … ezinearticles.com/?Watch-NBC…Local-Channels…id… – Cached – Similar 3. Can You Watch Local TV Channels on Computer Online? – Only One … 13 Jun 2008 … Are you ready to watch local TV channels online on your computer? Are you ready to transform your PC/laptop into a satellite TV stations? … ezinearticles.com/?…Watch-Local…Channels-on-Computer… – Cached – Similar 4. Watch Live TV – Over 1750 Online TV Stations TV Online Watch … Watch +2000 Worldwide Channels on your Pc/laptops Free Using just internet connection.No additional hardware require.No TV Tuner Card,No Satellite Dish,No … tv-channels.qarchive.org/ – Cached – Similar 5. Free TV Internet TV Online watch channels on PC Movies HDTV scifi … Internet tv portal for totally free TV downloads and streams worldwide online tv, satellite tv, web tv, listings, watch tv online,watch TV PC, television pc … Adult – Movies & TV Shows – Live Sports – Sports www …
Friday, November 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Common sense has prevailed again at the BBC Trust as they reject plans for the BBC’s ultra local services; the impact it would have had on local newspapers – a collapsing market – would have been devastating. Below are some of the circulation falls that happened to daily newspapers in Wales between 2006 and last year; I suspect the ensuing year has been even worse for them:
Welsh Dailies Circulation Falls
2006 – 2007
Wrexham Evening Leader
-3%
Daily Post
-8.9%
Denbighshire Free Press
-3%
North Wales Weekly News
-7.6%
Rhondda Leader
-7.4%
Pontypridd Observer
-8.2%
Merthyr Express
-5.6%
Western Mail
-5.5%
South Wales Echo
-10.2%
South Wales Evening Post
-6.2%
Carmarthen Journal
-4.3%
Cardigan Advertiser
-4.1%
Western Telegraph
-3.5%
Milford Mercury
-5.7%
(Press Gazette)
As the above businesses try to move their readership online, free and professionally produced competition from the Beeb would have seen many of them fail.
The BBC also finds it difficult to operate on a local level – its support for outpost studios is notoriously bad and it ha constantly attempted to centralise its services.
However, there remains an efficient vaccum for hyperlocal content, including hyperlocal TV services which the money being carved from the BBC’s licence fee by OFCOM could go some of the part towards funding this. The trouble here is that one subsidised service is being replaced with another.
In the US local TV stations have long been a mainstay of their broadcast industry and Internet TV now offers similar options in the UK for a combination of syndicated and local content. ITV’s strategy of trying to preserve largescale mainstream audiences instead of aggregating smaller, potentially more valuable, audiences will, I suspect, prove to be wrong.
The only question is – will existing news providers step up to the mark in these difficult times, or is this an opportunity for new businesses to establish themselves ?
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
RGB Networks and TANDBERG Television Enable Telecom Carriers to Seamlessly Insert Local Ads into High Definition MPEG-4 AVC Video Programs – November 11, 2008 Anaheim, California – At the TelcoTV 2008 conference, RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, and TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ: ERIC), are demonstrating their advanced integrated ad insertion solution for telecom carriers, which enables them to earn additional advertising revenue by inserting local ads into MPEG-4 AVC High Definition (HD) programming.
Local campaigners in Medway against the building of Kingsnorth coal fired power station stage a protest to support the Climate Camp. http://www.visionon.tv
