LOCAL TELEVISION PUBLICATIONS and DVDs
from the Institute of Local Television
SEPTEMBER 2006 Catalogue
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NEW FOR 2006
Volumes of Community TV ‘key texts’ - short films on DVD bound with a
written introduction and related papers outlining the development of
Community Television from the 1970s to the present day.
VOLUME ONE (44 pgs) with DVD looks at European traditions which
influenced the development of labour movement filmmaking, later
community cinema and community cable TV in Europe and the UK
COMMUNITY TELEVISION ‘KEY TEXTS’ VOLUME ONE - £25.00 inc p&p
Introduction, SECTION ONE: Origins of UK Cable, Cable Channel 4 and the
Independent Sector SECTION TWO: Open Channels for Germany and bound
with the following short films on DVD - DEADMEN ECHO (1982) Montage
from the (mostly silent) workers’ films of the 1930s incorporating
clips from various archives with a spoken analysis. EUROPEAN MEETING OF
LOCAL TELEVISIONS (1991) Council of Europe meeting on local and
community TV. Community TV examples from Germany, UK and The
Netherlands with a valuable analysis of community television by
Professor Nick Jankowski. OPEN CHANNELS FOR EUROPE (1999) A compilation
of short Hi-8 videos on some of the different approaches to community
and access TV to be found in Germany, Sweden and Israel
VOLUME TWO (51pgs) with DVD explores recent local terrestrial TV
examples and the emergence of a consensus towards local public service
television ambitions following the introduction of the UK’s restricted
services local TV licences in 1997
COMMUNITY TELEVISION ‘KEY TEXTS’ VOLUME TWO - £25.00 inc p&p
Introduction, SECTION ONE: Finding purpose in a new Broadcasting Bill
(1995) SECTION TWO: Local television as local communication space,
SECTION THREE: e-tv - TV using 2.4GHz microwave, and bound with the
following short films on DVD - CAPITAL NEWS (1995) Supported by The
Scotsman newspaper, Capital News was a broadcasting project involving
students from local universities and colleges in setting up and running
a local TV news studio. Held to coincide with the Edinburgh
International Television Festival in 1995, the Government’s Department
of National Heritage stopped the broadcast just moments before it was
due on air. The project continued - ‘broadcasting to tape’ - providing
evidence to help convince regulators that local television offered a
real alternative to regional television news. TOUBIE JACK’S CHANNEL SIX
SHOWREEL (2001-2002) On small budgets the local TV services, Edinburgh
Television and Channel Six Dundee differentiated themselves very
clearly in their short-form programming, commercials, TV graphics and
logos. Toubie Jack’s showreel demonstrates that high production values
can be achieved from basic desktop computers and software. e-tv
ABERFELDY (2002-3) A field trial of a low-cost licence-exempt
neighbourhood TV technology which ran from September 2002-October 2003.
Here, King Alfreds College filmed interviews and presentations from the
Community TV Forum held in Aberfeldy in September 2002.
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LOCAL TV ENGINEERING FOR NON-ENGINEERS
Inserting Local TV channels into the digital terrestrial network has
been made possible through the introduction of a technique called
‘add/drop’. Each LOCAL CHANNEL ATLAS outlines the scope for local TV
channels in different parts of the UK.]
The Pocket LOCAL CHANNEL ATLAS (Scotland) - £9.00 inc p&p 40pgs.
ISBN: 1 899405 05 4. The ‘add/drop solution’ explained. The terrestrial
Local TV option proposed by ACTO and described in Ofcom’s Digital Local
as “the most consistent and convenient solution and potentially offers
the widest reach for Local TV of all the terrestrial options.” Add/drop
explained and applied to delivering Local TV throughout Scotland (2005).
The 2nd Pocket LOCAL CHANNEL ATLAS (Scottish Borders, Cumbria, Kent,
Northern Ireland, North West) -£8.00 inc p&p 32pgs.
ISBN: 1 899405 06 2. As above with introduction to add/drop but showing
coveragte plans for parts of England.
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ACTO - LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION DIRECTORIES
ACTO is a directory circulated fortnightly as an information resource
and discussion forum on Local TV. FOC and distributed by email to over
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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 - £13.50 inc p&p 144 pgs.
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.
Papers from editions 11-20 of ACTO have been compiled into LOCAL
television REPORT - VOLUME TWO - including an interrview 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 - £28.50 inc p&p 200pgs with DVD
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.
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INSTITUTE OF LOCAL TELEVISION SERIES
LOCAL TELEVISION RENEWED: essays on local television 1994-2005 -
£13.50 inc p&p 112 pgs
ISBN:1 899405 03 8, Dave Rushton, published by School Press (2005)
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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ILT BACK CATALOGUE
DON QUIXOTE’S ART & TELEVISION: seeing things in art and television -
£8.50 inc p&p 48 pgs
ISBN: 1 899405 02 X Dave Rushton with an introduction by Terry
Atkinson, published by School Press (1998) Softback. CONTENTS
Introduction, Terry Atkinson; Noisy Channel; Art & Artifice: or designs
on the past; Open Channels and Media Literacy.
CREATING LOCAL TELEVISION: local and community television under the
Restricted Services Licence - £10.50 inc p&p 78 pgs
1 899405 01 1 Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey, Institute of
Local Television & CMA (1997) 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.
LOCAL CHANNELS UNDER LOCAL CONTROL: a debate on broadcasting policy for
Scotland and the English Regions £10.50 inc p&p 75pgs.
ISBN: 1 899405 07 0, edited by Anna Malina. published by Institute of
Local Television (1995) Introduction: Local Control – a social debate,
Anna Malina; Channel 5 under Local Control, Dave Rushton; Broadcasting
for Scotland, Nigel R Smith; Policy in the Use of Broadcasting
Frequency, David Tolman; Message from Robin Corbett Independent
Production and Channel, Philip Reevell, Planning Channel 5 Programming,
Andrew Sharps; Scottish Association of Smallscale Broadcasters, John
Gray; Development of Local TV Policy in the Netherlands, Nick
Jankowski; European Broadcasting Priorities, Henry McGubbin MEP,
Concluding Proposal, Dave Rushton.
LOCAL TELEVISION REVIEWED: essays on local television 1982-1993 - £9.50
inc p&p 48 pgs
ISBN: 1 899405 003 Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey & Institute
of Local Television (1994) 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.
CITIZEN TELEVISION: a local dimension to Public Service Broadcasting -
£19.50 inc p&p 232 pgs
ISBN: 0 86196 433 0 edited by Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey &
Institute of Local Television (1993) 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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