|
|
Post by Simon Winters on Nov 24, 2014 9:50:13 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Peter Stirling on Nov 24, 2014 10:03:57 GMT
Kaleidoscope - what a good name for a TV channel eh?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:09:47 GMT
It's a very exciting piece of news! Also good is the fact that it gives Kaleidoscope a higher public profile. I look forward to hearing more news as it's announced.
|
|
|
|
Post by christian bews on Nov 24, 2014 10:28:09 GMT
if I visit one of your events in 2015 would the channel be available in Stourbridge when I visit the hotel? on what transmitter will broadcast it over there?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:51:55 GMT
It should be available on Freeview, I would think. So it would depend on what sort of TV package the hotel / house you're staying in has as regards channel reception.
|
|
|
|
Post by RossL on Nov 24, 2014 17:55:39 GMT
Local TV has been allocated FreeView channel 8 in England. KalTV will only be broadcast on the Sutton Coldfield & Brierly Hill transmitters.
The local tv multiplexes are often transmitted at lower powers than the main multiplexes so reception may depend on a decent signal level at the receiving aerial.
From wiki, the Sutton Coldfiels transmitted powers are:
main mux power - 200kw
Kal local mux power - 10 kw!
The antticipated coverage area is shown on the map in the link in Simons first post
|
|
|
|
Post by Simon Winters on Nov 27, 2014 12:32:24 GMT
A really major topic of conversation on this forum over past years has been to lament the lack of interest by broadcasters in our television heritage, and their similar lack of interest in the recovery of missing programme material.
BBC 4 has done a little bit of work in this area, but in general nothing much is happening at all on the UK’s tv screens. The recent Channel 4 documentary on the 1970s is a case in point – was eagerly watched but turned out to be a lecture on how terrible everything in the past used to be, and how we are so much better people today. Archive clips were used to put down the 1970s and laugh at it.
Add to that the incessant pandering to younger audiences, who often don’t watch television anyway.
There is a lot of missing tv still ‘out there’, and the broadcasters do next to nothing to campaign for it’s return. Remember ITV cancelling it’s ‘Raiders’ series after episode one went out? The BBC’s reports on archive tv and missing tv are often infantile (eg on The One Show) .
For me, the local tv franchise awards were the very last hope for getting a fresh set of people to run stations, in the hope of the topics dear to our hearts being covered in some way.
With many local stations having a local film archive available to them, there was the chance of screening really good vintage local documentaries at the very least.
I live in London and have had plenty of chances to watch London Live. It’s utter rubbish, a waste of space, only interested in the young, and now failing miserably. I must say I’m rather glad. I live in hope if it being taken over one day.
I don’t think any other local tv station has gone for much archive tv content, if any at all.
Which is why I for one was delighted to hear that Ofcom have awarded the Birmingham franchise to two people who care passionately about our preserved and lost tv heritage, Chris Perry and Mike Prince.
Mike Prince was a major figure at ATV and Central, and in recent years he has contributed to numerous celebrations of missing and archive tv, including at Stourbridge, BAFTA, the BFI and on ITV Local News. He has a fondness for the old ITV which we all dearly miss. Ironically, that appalling Channel 4 documentary used a previously missing clip of Mike doing ATV invision as part of it’s demolition job on the 1970s.
Chris Perry of course has a 30-year track record of hunting down and celebrating archive tv and missing tv, and also has a fondness for the golden days of UK tv.
I for one see this new channel as being pretty much the very last hope of a tv station run by people with a passion for missing and archive tv, a passion for the golden age of tv, and it gives hope that someone can break the spell that decrees that all broadcasting must pander to the young and to the lowest common denominator.
Of course, this franchise has statutory commitments to Ofcom, so it will not be an archive tv station. But, we can all hope that the principles that these two chaps hold dear will result in some archive tv content, and also gives hope to those of us who believe that UK tv can do much better than it currently does in so many ways.
Luckily, the Midlands also has the excellent MACE archive at hand, with a whole collection of great archive tv material just waiting to be let out of the vaults! And MACE already has an excellent relationship with Chris Perry, from what I have witnessed at Stourbridge events.
So, let’s celebrate this chance that Ofcom have given for these lucky Midlands viewers. It’s a great chance to advance the things we all believe in.
If this station does do some of these things as part of its general service, and does it well, who knows, London Live and others could potentially learn lessons and do the same.
The Local TV idea could become potentially a force for celebrating our lost and archived tv heritage on an area by area basis supporting and exposing the excellent regional archives. Missing tv may be returned by viewers.
Global Moderator – I cannot think of a thread that could be more on-topic in terms of campaigns for missing and archive tv than this one, by the way. I hope the members agree.
|
|
|
|
Post by richardwoods on Dec 16, 2014 22:46:21 GMT
Great stuff, couldn't agree more.
|
|
|
|
Post by John Green on Dec 16, 2014 23:05:03 GMT
Yes,I figured that older threads would get moved here,but I'm guessing that we can start new ones?
I so wished,when this one was started,that it referred to a new vintage-TV channel a la Nick at night.I don't think that I'm interested in local TV.
|
|
