Dear Colleagues,
As Ofcom prepares for its consultation on the auction of digital
spectrum the possibility of Local TV as digital terrestrial television
and public service will come sharply into focus. For an informed
discussion during that consultation it is useful to have access to 'The
case for Local TV on DTT'.
Copies of the first twenty 'ACTO local public service directories' are
available free for downloading, printing and circulation as pdf files
from
http://www.maccess.org.uk/members/ilt.html
Earlier reports to Ofcom are also available from this site.
For library use printed copies of papers from the ACTO directories are
reproduced regularly - with the first two volumes outlined below.
Orders for printed copies can either be placed via email to
[log in to unmask] or through academic book suppliers.
With regards,
Dave Rushton
Director
Institute of Local Television
Papers from the first ten editions of ACTO have been compiled into the
LOCAL television REPORT VOLUME ONE.
LOCAL television REPORT - ACTO local public service television papers,
VOLUME ONE ISBN: 1 899405 04 6, published by School
Press/ACTO/Institute of Local Television, (December 2005). Softback.
CONTENTS I Preamble. ii Introduction. ONE Questions & Answers: Natalie
White’s: Questions on the Future of Local Television; Ofcom’s:
Assessing the Future of Local Television and Interactive Services: A
Survey for Stakeholders. TWO European Background: Assessing
Opportunities for Local TV Across Europe; THREE Case Histories:
Triangle TV Auckland; Open Channels Germany; Open Channel Berlin;
Teveline: Reality Show vs Real People; Channel Six Dundee plus Audience
Research; ‘e-tv’ in Aberfeldy. FOUR Local Spectrum & Costs: The
Add/drop Solution and Local Network Channel; How Big or Small is Local
TV?; A Stab at Local TV Costs. FIVE Shifting Policies: Media Literacy,
Local Licences and Local Government; God’s Own Spectrum: Local TV and
the Public Good; Regional Variations in Production Spend; Bigger
Picture on the Smaller Screen; Valuing Local Public Service Television.
SIX Nutshell: ACTO Checklist to Ofcom, April 2005. £13.50 inc p&p 144
pgs.
Papers from editions 11-20 of ACTO have been compiled into LOCAL
television REPORT - VOLUME TWO - including an interview on DVD
conducted by Marsha Ramroop of BBC Local TV West Midlands with Dave
Rushton, Director Institute of Local Television on - Why independent
Local TV?
LOCAL television REPORT - ACTO local public service television papers,
VOLUME TWO ISBN: 1 899405 08 9, published by School
Press/ACTO/Institute of Local Television, (September 2006). Softback.
CONTENTS Introduction, ONE Review & Analysis: Ofcom’s Digital Local:
Options for the future of local video content and interactive
services, Ofcom’s Digital Local: Response and Further Review. TWO Local
Public Service Television Broadcasting: What is not clear about Public
Service?, European Local Public Service Television, Delivering Ofcom’s
Digital Local with Public Purpose. THREE European Background: Assessing
Opportunities for Local TV Across Europe, John Glover, Ofcom. FOUR:
MORI’s Local TV Study for Ofcom, Speed Reading MORI’s ‘Programmes in
the Nations’. FIVE: Local TV: Who’s interested? Scottish Local TV Forum
Peter Williams, Kent; Eva Dekanovska, Slovakia; Nic Millington,
Herefordshire; Brendan Murphy, Perthshire. Borders Local TV Briefing
Scottish Borders Council, John Askew; Fife, MiMAC, Fife, Graeme
Campbell; Belfast NvTv, Northern Visions. SIX Digital Frontline:
Technical Overview, Programming Introduction, Grant & Production Funded
Local TV. SEVEN Switchover and the Consumer: Trisha McAuley, Scottish
Consumer Council. SEVEN Local DTT Engineering: Achilles’ Heel or Fall
Guy?, Add/Drop, Serge Francois, Terayon. £28.50 inc p&p 200pgs with DVD.
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