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Itshim 19-09-2012 16:12

Local TV
 
It has been announced that the contract for local TV has been awarded to Made TV ltd. In their case for both Bristol & Cardiff .

What a the chances that they will be available on Virgin. Or will freeview be the way to see them ?:dozey:

Media Boy UK 19-09-2012 17:09

Re: Local TV
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35475898)
It has been announced that the contract for local TV has been awarded to Made TV ltd. In their case for both Bristol & Cardiff .

What a the chances that they will be available on Virgin. Or will freeview be the way to see them ?:dozey:

Here is the latest I have:

Only 'Lincolnshire Living' as been confirmed as launching on Virgin TV = If they do launch on Virgin Media they will launch in the 6-- channel numbers after News Channels.

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== March 2013 ===
-Made in Bristol (Bristol, Mendip, Kings Weston relay, Ilchester Crescent relay)
-Made in Cardiff (Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend)

=== September 2013 ===
-Lincolnshire Living [Grimsby (Parts of Kingston upon Hull)] (Is Broadcasting as Seven on Virgin Channel 879 right now).
-Latest TV [Brighton and Hove]

=== October 2013 ===
-Mustard (Norwich)

©copyright 2012 Ofcom.

Keep up to date on my blog @ http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...ed-190912.html

Itshim 19-09-2012 17:36

Re: Local TV
 
Thank you - Made in Cardiff TV gets less interesting if it is covering such a wide area.
The spin I saw ( no I do not recall were ) seemed to implie it was Cardiff only.

nodrogd 22-09-2012 17:46

Re: Local TV
 
From OFCOM's Statement on licencing local television:

1.5 The L-DTPS licence is only for a service carried on this local multiplex, i.e. on digital terrestrial television (DTT). L-DTPS licensees may wish to distribute their services on satellite and/or on cable and/or online, subject to commercial negotiations. A separate Television Licensable Content Service (TLCS) licence would be required for any such simulcasts.

So, in other words, carriage on cable is subject to commercial agreement AND the TV company going to the additional expense of obtaining an additional licence for cable distribution.

Source document

Itshim 24-09-2012 09:47

Re: Local TV
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by nodrogd (Post 35476935)
From OFCOM's Statement on licencing local television:

1.5 The L-DTPS licence is only for a service carried on this local multiplex, i.e. on digital terrestrial television (DTT). L-DTPS licensees may wish to distribute their services on satellite and/or on cable and/or online, subject to commercial negotiations. A separate Television Licensable Content Service (TLCS) licence would be required for any such simulcasts.

So, in other words, carriage on cable is subject to commercial agreement AND the TV company going to the additional expense of obtaining an additional licence for cable distribution.

Source document

So in Virgins case the answer I suspect is NO:)

Media Boy UK 03-10-2012 17:27

Re: Local TV
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35475924)
Ofcom awards more local TV licences

The new licences are for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels in Bristol, Cardiff and Norwich

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== March 2013 ===
-Made in Bristol (Bristol, Mendip, Kings Weston relay, Ilchester Crescent relay)
-Made in Cardiff (Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend)

=== October 2013 ===
-Mustard (Norwich)

©copyright 2012 Ofcom.

New one been added today.

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== April 2014 ===
-Notts TV (Nottingham)

Media Boy UK 10-10-2012 13:39

Re: Local TV
 
The following Local TV areas will launch by:

-Sheffield Live (SLTV) to launch in 2013.
-NvTV to launch in Belfast also in 2013.

More on my blog later today.

©copyright 2012 Ofcom.

eep up to date on my blog @ http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...ed-190912.html[/QUOTE]

Media Boy UK 10-10-2012 17:13

Re: Local TV
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35483393)
The following Local TV areas will launch by:

-Sheffield Live (SLTV) to launch in 2013.
-NvTV to launch in Belfast also in 2013.

More on my blog later today.

©copyright 2012 Ofcom.

eep up to date on my blog @ http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...ed-190912.html

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== September 2013 ===
-NvTv (Belfast)

=== October 2013 ===
-SLTV/Sheffield Live (Sheffield)

For full info to go the 'Coming to an area near you!!!' page on my blog

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Media Boy UK 27-10-2012 11:29

Re: Local TV
 
Ofcom awards more local TV licences

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== January 2014 ===
-Thats Solent (Southampton)

©copyright 2012 Ofcom.

Media Boy UK 07-11-2012 13:37

Re: Local TV
 
More names of local TV Channels confirmed by Ofcom.

-City TV Broadcasting will launch in Birmingham by June 2013.
-Thats Oxford hope to launch in Oxford sometime in 2014.

cupcakes aka dd 09-11-2012 11:23

Re: Local TV
 
City TV will be on the air via freeview next year. The BBC is contributing £25-40 million towards capital costs of building the TV infrastructure and up to £5 million a year over three years to acquire local content.

Jameseh 09-11-2012 15:48

Re: Local TV
 
How on earth can the BBC afford that?

toady 09-11-2012 19:00

Re: Local TV
 
They can't its been forced on them. Someone feels that local TV will be the solution to everything, whereas in reality it will be a complete waste of money and will fail just like all previous attempts at local TV have

beeman 10-11-2012 15:51

Re: Local TV
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35494784)
How on earth can the BBC afford that?

I would guess it is the money the BBC has had to spend annually on the digital switch over for the past 10 odd years. which now switchover is complete is spare.

Media Boy UK 23-11-2012 13:32

Re: Local TV
 
Guardian.co.uk is reporting:

Quote:

''Ofcom has delayed a decision on awarding all the remaining local TV licences and now expects to wrap up the process by the end of February, meaning a likely three-month delay for an announcement on the lucrative London franchise. This delay means the local TV licence for the London area, which caters for 4.3 million homes, is expected to be awarded by the end of February. The five London bidders had been told informally by Ofcom to expect a decision in November.

Ofcom said the delay had nothing to do with problems over the Nottingham and Sheffield licences which emerged last week.

This means the Newcastle bid is likely to be decided by the end of December, with Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester by the end of January. The Leeds, Liverpool, London and Preston bids are now scheduled to be awarded by the end of February.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...cence-decision


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