Freeview local TV branding announced - Local TV or |local|
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV Local TV will be promoting the new services, which come on air over the next 12 months starting with Grimsby in November. They have launched a new website today Local TV - Get closer.
Responsible Minister Ed Vaizey says "This agreement marks a key stage in the development of local TV and we will soon see the first station begin broadcasting. The first station to hit the airwaves will launch an entirely new media industry in the UK. These stations are creating new jobs in our communications and creative industries, and providing people with a fresh way to be informed about their local communities."
The Local TV brand was officially launched at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF).
The Local TV site.
Comux's CEO Ed Hall says "Recently we announced contracts with all of our infrastructure partners and suppliers. We can now deliver the complete technical framework we promised to Ofcom and the 19 local licensees due to start broadcasting from this November. Today's launch of the public-facing Local TV brand means that we can now start promoting the service to the public and ensure that it receives the audience it deserves.
Local TV will become a familiar brand over the next year or two, and we fully expect that the local television service will attract a significant audience in the areas that it is available. Ofcom is currently seeking expressions of interest in a second phase of local stations across another 30 locations, and we are looking forward to the launch of the first station this autumn."
Lia Nici from Channel 7 Grimsby adds "The opportunity to launch our service on Freeview represents a major advance for us and will bring us to a far bigger audience. This has been made possible by the shared infrastructure that Comux UK has put in place which allows us to focus our investments and efforts on programme making. We're, therefore, very pleased that we will be the first station to broadcast on the new service this November."
Alongside broadcasting on digital terrestrial TV, some of the local channels are planning carriage on satellite and cable TV, and online.
Comux UK is owned in equal measure by the local television licensees.
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Saturday, 24 August 2013
Why not follow the link above that I have already posted the answer to community radio charges?
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Watlingfen: the link and quote above is for FM. Which hasn't been used for TV in the UK for at least 30 years.. Black and white days, VHF bands I and III television | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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And... It has been stated policy for some years that FM will be used for community non profit radio once BBC and commercial station are digital only.
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Sunday, 25 August 2013
Briantist: Where ever did you get the idea Radio4 was 'a mixture of programmes from the Home Service and Light Programme name your evidence. Radio 3 was the only one of four national labels and they'd already tried to re-name that as Network Three - though it was not a network. As for the re-naming which previously did give some idea of the station content and regional qualities of the Home Service - the listener/ compulsive up to then licence payer had no choice but to accept the totally undescriptive numbering. As with the itv where again regional content or opt-out is almost ended - itv wanted to end regional news but the government reminded them of the details of the Commercial TV Act. For decades people have been a little proud of being in ATV, Granada, Anglia etc areas in the same way they are as being Midlanders, Yorkshire folk etc. Itv completely ignored that in London , If BBC can 'label' their regions , as the itv companies did for decades then so can itv - the laws controlling contract rights and regional advertising haven't changed for years only the amount of advertising per hour has been allowed to almost double! (at peak up to 4 minutes from 2.5 in the years of the networking companies). It is now the industry that thinks it knows - but apart from a flawed system of audience counting it's not getting anything like the viewers for 'peak shows' ('Doc Martin' etc average quoted itv 9 million, whilst in the mid 1960's Steptoe & Son got 21 million.
I remember several people being confused when BBC 4 and BBC 3 came into operation simply because of confusion with radio 4 and radio 3 and a refusal of BBC to name the BBC TV4 and BBC TV3 one excuse was that in Europe there was already TV3 - however when it was pointed out the continental (French I believe) was not receivable on UK TV's BBC still insisted on not adding TV to the station names! I have now been told BBC do no longer use the general term 'radio' but the Audio and Music Dept.
Brian, you know commercial and national/regional boundaries are not recognised by radio waves so saying itv can't offer itv regions outside the broadcast area in incredibly naive and in effect scientifically impossible as far as unscrambled satellite transmission is concerned. Itv must also accept were regions and sub-regions meet (i.e. East Midlands and West Midlands) and particularly where the 'official' region transmitter fails to cover the particular town or community area then your final paragraph is unworkable - by itv itself!
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Watlingfen: can I suggest you do some reading?
Life on Air: A History of Radio Four by Hendy, David is an excellent read and great for getting your facts straight. - see Life on Air: A History of Radio Four eBook: David Hendy: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Even Wikipedia knows
Woman's Hour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
"Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey the programme was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme (now called Radio 2).It was transferred to its current home in 1973"
Or The Archers The Archers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
"Since January 1, 1951, five 15-minute episodes (since 1998, six 12.5-minute episodes) have been transmitted each week, at first on the BBC Light Programme"
Round the Horne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia as an example of comedy
"Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme, transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. Home station BBC Light Programme"
Any Questions? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was initially broadcast nationally on the BBC Light Programme ... has gone out exclusively on Radio 4 since 10 April 1970.
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Right, going back to "BROADCASTING IN THE SEVENTIES" which is the BBC plan that renamed the networks.
The numbering was used because the existing names were not useful. Both the Home and Light programmes were mixtures of speech and music radio, and the Third programme was also used for Sports broadcasts.
In addition, the BBC were starting their local radio services.
And, as I said, the branding for BBC radio has lasted since 1969, which is hardly a failure.
There has never been a "Commercial Television Act", perhaps you are reffering to the "Television Act 1954" or one of the "Broadcasting Act 1980", "Broadcasting Act 1981" or "Broadcasting Act 1990"?
"the laws controlling contract rights and regional advertising haven't changed for years"
Silly you, you missed out on CCR - the remedy put in place when Carlton and Granda merged to form ITV plc - CRR explained: how contract rights renewal binds ITV ad sales | Media | theguardian.com Ofcom | Review of the Contract Rights Renewal Undertakings ITV Statement - Contract Rights Renewal | itvplc Welcome | The Office of the Adjudicator
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There has been little change to the rules on ITV for the amount of adverts - RADA old rules Ofcom | Rules on the amount and distribution of advertising
"The total amount of advertising in any one day must not exceed an average of
seven minutes per hour of broadcasting ... In the periods 6pm11pm and 7am9am the total amount of advertising must not,
without Ofcoms prior permission, exceed an average of eight minutes an hour"
New rules http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
"a) on public service channels time devoted to television advertising and
teleshopping spots must not exceed:
i) an average of 7 minutes per hour for every hour of transmission time across
the broadcasting day; and
ii) subject to (i) above, an average of 8 minutes an hour between 6pm and
11pm;"
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"remember several people being confused when BBC 4 and BBC 3 came into operation simply because of confusion with radio 4 and radio 3 and a refusal of BBC to name the BBC TV4 and BBC TV3"
That doesn't really fit the actual facts either.
What is now BBC Three was the evening service of BBC CHOICE. BBC Four was the evening part of the BBC KNOWLEDGE schedule.
There was never ANY discussion about having "TV" in the service names.
The TV services were called "One" and "Two" since 04.10.97 and TVARK | BBC One | 1997 | Idents TVARK | BBC Two | 1997 Idents
Even BBC CHOICE use "three" for it's idents - TVARK | BBC Choice
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From http://downloads.bbc.co.u….pdf ("BBC Engineering No 87 July 1971")
Athough the former Light, Home and Third programmes were often identified as being low-brow, middle-brow and high-brow, radio broadcasting in this country has been traditionally based on a mixed programming principle whereby any single channel offed the public a whole range programmes covering all interest and many levels of brow.
The new plans outlined in Broadcasting in the Seventies were based on a different concept - one of specialised or "generic" networks which experienced both in this country and abroad suggested was more in tune with listening habits...
In essence this mean that Radio 1 would be devoted to pop music, Radio 2 would cater for the light music listeners, Radio 3 would carry mainly serious music and Radio 4 would be strengthened for its role as the speech network carrying the main News and Current Affairs programmes."
I think I rest my case and provide sufficient evidence.
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From BBC News | UK | Dyke outlines digital BBC
"Friday, 25 August, 2000
The BBC of the future will have five channels tailored to specific audiences to enable it to survive in the digital age.
The director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke, outlined his plans for the future of the corporation in the MacTaggart Lecture in Edinburgh.
He announced the creation of two new channels - BBC Three and BBC Four - which would be aimed at particular audience groups.
BBC Three, which will come from the existing channel BBC Choice, will offer original British comedy, drama and music as well as providing arts, education and social action programming designed to attract a young audience.
BBC Four, which will develop from the BBC Knowledge channel, will be "unashamedly intellectual".
The two other new services would be children's programmes, shown during the day on BBC Three and Four - one for pre-school children and the second for children aged between six and 13."
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