LOCAL TELEVISION PUBLICATIONS from the Institute of Local Television


LOCAL television REPORT - ACTO local public service television papers,  
ISBN: 1 899405 04 6, published by School Press/ACTO/Institute of Local  
Television, (December 2005), £13.50 inc p&p 144 pgs. 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.
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LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED: essays on local television 1994-2005  
published by School Press for the Institute of Local Television,  
(August 2005). £13.50 inc p&p 112 pgs, Softback
LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED provides a vigorous critique of the political  
impact of public service broadcasting since 1990 and argues for two  
hundred plus independent local, community and municipal television  
channels in line with developments underway across Europe. LOCAL  
TELEVISION RENEWED outlines how these proposals for local TV channels  
can be introduced as part of digital switchover from 2008 and expanded  
via broadband.
LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED is the fifth volume on local television to be  
published by the Institute of Local Television - published either with  
John Libbey, the Community Radio Association (CRA, now the Community  
Media Association) or on the ILT imprint: School Press.
LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED: essays on local television 1994-2005, ISBN:1  
899405 03 8, Dave Rushton, published by School Press (2005) £13.50 inc  
p&p 112 pgs Softback CONTENTS Preamble; Introduction; Technical  
Background; Virtual Reality; Vicarious and Experiential TV News; A  
General Theory of Spectrum; Defining the Social Geography of Local News  
Identity; Assessing opportunities for local digital TV across Europe;  
Add/Drop and the Local Network Channel. APPENDICES: A Local Television  
Reader; Scottish Local TV Forum Report; Some pointers for filming local  
TV news and short documentaries
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CITIZEN TELEVISION: a local dimension to Public Service Broadcasting,  
ISBN: 0 86196 433 0 edited by Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey &  
Institute of Local Television (1993) £19.50 inc p&p 232 pgs Hardback  
CONTENTS PART ONE - Research & Analysis: Citizens and the Local Choice.  
Edinburgh Television Study, Peter Kitchenman; Cable Company Franchise  
Commitments, Adrian Friedli; Highways Authority Experience of UK Cable  
Build, Inken Schindler; Local Authority Cable Briefing, Lyndsey  
Bowditch; Reading the ITC’s Mapping Regional Views, Dave Rushton;  
Survey of Local Channels on UK Cable, 1992, Julie White; A Local Future  
on Cable?, Dave Rushton PART TWO - Commentary & Critique, Local Public  
Service Television. Making Local Work, Dave Rushton; Amendments to the  
ITC’s Draft Invitation to Apply for Channel 5, Amanda Gibbs & Dave  
Rushton; Channel 5 and Local Television, Dave Rushton; ‘Star Rating’  
Channel 5 Transmitters, Dave Rushton; The European Meeting of Local  
Television, Dave Rushton. APPENDICES, Section 7 Cable and Broadcasting  
Act, 1984; Local Channel Survey, 1989, Peter Kitchenman; Tables 9-14,  
16, 19 & 21, Peter Kitchenman; Cable Growth, 1983-1992; Pilot Local C5  
Survey Edinburgh, 1990, Lyndsey Bowditch; C3 Regional Populations and  
C5 Transmitter Populations
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LOCAL TELEVISION REVIEWED: essays on local television 1982-1993, ISBN:  
1 899405 003 Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey & Institute of  
Local Television (1994) £9.50 inc p&p 48 pgs Softback CONTENTS  
Introduction; Cable, Cable TV and Video; Work! Work!!; Cultural,  
Racial, Economic, Political, Social & Class Bias (etc) ... on TV;  
Swindon Viewpoint, Aberdeen Cable, Cable Authority and the Grapevine  
Channel; Origins of UK Cable; Cable, Channel 4 and Tape Distribution.
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CREATING LOCAL TELEVISION: local and community television under the  
Restricted Services Licence, 1 899405 01 1 Dave Rushton, published by  
John Libbey, Institute of Local Television & CMA (1997) £10.50 inc p&p  
78 pgs Softback CONTENTS PART ONE - Policy and Intervention. Policy and  
intervention; PART TWO - Preparing a TV RSL; Locating frequency  
channels for TV RSLs; Blueprint for a TV RSL; Organising a TV RSL;  
APPENDICES.
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DON QUIXOTE’S ART & TELEVISION: seeing things in art and television,  
ISBN: 1 899405 02 X Dave Rushton with an introduction by Terry  
Atkinson, published by School Press (1998) £8.50 inc p&p 48 pgs  
Softback. CONTENTS Introduction, Terry Atkinson; Noisy Channel; Art &  
Artifice: or designs on the past; Open Channels and Media Literacy.
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