TV channel bid (From Oxford Mail)
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TV channel bid
11:00am Friday 11th May 2012 in News
OXFORD: Operators have begun bidding for the right to run a new Oxford TV channel.
The city is one of the first 21 areas in the UK given the opportunity to launch its own local TV station as part of a new Government initiative. Potential operators now have until August 13 to apply to Ofcom for a licence.
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Major Oxford
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12:07pm Fri 11 May 12
Dilligaf2010
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12:51pm Fri 11 May 12
Andrew:Oxford
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1:00pm Fri 11 May 12
Captain J wrote:That was the trouble. When the station launched, the vast majority of appropriate audience had migrated to digital TV.
Did anyone ever actually watch the last Oxford channel?
They were left with technophobes and people too poor to buy a digital receiver.
King Joke
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5:00pm Fri 11 May 12
Local budget content could just as easily be put out on an internet channel, with no need for a transmitter.
LORD PETER MACVEY 0X2 6EG
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2:57am Sun 13 May 12
King Joke wrote:It will be Digital Terrestrial.
Local TV could be fun, but really is analogue TV going to be watched by anybody? Most modern TV sets are permanently tuned to digital and, more recently, IPTV.
Local budget content could just as easily be put out on an internet channel, with no need for a transmitter.
LORD PETER MACVEY 0X2 6EG
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4:13pm Mon 14 May 12
LORD PETER MACVEY 0X2 6EG wrote:And unlike you, most of us are not lucky enough to have the "Interweb" to watch the Oxford Channel online.
King Joke wrote:It will be Digital Terrestrial.
Local TV could be fun, but really is analogue TV going to be watched by anybody? Most modern TV sets are permanently tuned to digital and, more recently, IPTV.
Local budget content could just as easily be put out on an internet channel, with no need for a transmitter.
King Joke
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4:17pm Mon 14 May 12
Captain J says...
11:51am Fri 11 May 12