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Hmm, I'm not convinced - on demand services work fine for people who know what they want to see but surely one of the points of this would be to get at a 'lay audience' (I dislike that term but I can't think of another way to describe what I mean). If it is a traditional channel then people will stumble across it through channel hopping. -- Rhys Phillips Lightning, Electrostatics & EMH x4704 -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of RevealingResearch Sent: 02 May 2012 09:57 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science TV channel names Hi everyone, this sounds like a great idea, but I agree there are already a lot of good online science channels already. Perhaps it is the distribution, services like BBC iPlayer and 4OD are so easily available through my PS3, an app on my phone (incidentally I do have the TED talks app which is a good example, but the interface could be a bit slicker), and on my virgin media box I can access all these services, and on smart tv's you can access all these as well as youtube. Maybe if there was a good vehicle that brought together the best of online science content from all the aforementioned sites, but made it more publicly accessible through your tv by using the same distribution methods as these other services - there's definitely no need to go down the traditional tv channel on satellite route these days as technology is going towards on demand services through your tv. Just my 2p! Dr. Helen-Louise Murphy Public Engagement Assistant Revealing Research University of Dundee E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: 01382 386660 Web: www.dundee.ac.uk/revealingresearch Twitter: @revealsresearch -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sutcliffe Hilary Sent: 02 May 2012 09:48 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science TV channel names Yes, I love that, it still makes me laugh that they dare call a channel Dave! Albert? There is Mark Henderson's Geek Manifesto coming out soon too. Though I think there are more good science channels out there than I realised, I am not sure there is a gap. H Hilary Sutcliffe Director MATTER 7 Adam Street London WC2H 6AA Tel: +44 (0)208 693 0053 Mob: 07799 625064 Twitter: http://twitter.com/hilarysutcliffe Email: [log in to unmask] Blog: http://www.matterforall.org/blog/ Website: www.matterforall.org skype: hilary.sutcliffe On 2 May 2012, at 09:38, David Ault wrote: Maybe we want a more highbrow version of Dave... 'Richard', perhaps..? On 2 May 2012 09:13, hmptnu <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think people tend to forget how easy it is for the wrong connotations > to arise when naming communication channels. > > For example Sci-Com could quite easily be a propaganda outlet from one > of the seemingly multiple US security agencies. While the People's > Science Channel sounds to me like it's coming from the People's Republic > of China! > > The BBC's Horizon programme is an example of good naming, and I always > thought an excellent series. I haven't seen it too much recently though, > so don't know what's happened there. > > You can use some quite humorous names to suggest science content in a > new channel. For example "Nerds Incorporated" or "Geeks Incorporated". > Though I doubt anyone would be courageous enough to choose these names > for a channel! > > Or you can question, e.g. "Future Perfect?" or "Mirage or Reality?". Or > imply a Godlike position, e.g. "The Ant's View" or "View from the Burrow". > > In the end it is content that determines a channel's "weightiness", of > course. Make the content good enough, and people will forgive a funny name. > > This is all IMHO, of course. > > Philip > > ********************************************************************** > Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html > You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. > > Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. > It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html > and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html > > Email commands: > 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, > send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: > > set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] > > 2. 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