TV channel bid

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.

Comments(8)

Captain J says...
11:51am Fri 11 May 12

Did anyone ever actually watch the last Oxford channel?

Major Oxford says...
12:07pm Fri 11 May 12

waste of money and resources but then again we like doing that in oxford

Dilligaf2010 says...
12:51pm Fri 11 May 12

I tried watching Oxford 6, but the signal was so poor I gave up.

Andrew:Oxford says...
1:00pm Fri 11 May 12

Captain J wrote:
Did anyone ever actually watch the last Oxford channel?
That was the trouble. When the station launched, the vast majority of appropriate audience had migrated to digital TV.

They were left with technophobes and people too poor to buy a digital receiver.

King Joke says...
5:00pm Fri 11 May 12

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 says...
2:57am Sun 13 May 12

King Joke wrote:
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.
It will be Digital Terrestrial.

LORD PETER MACVEY 0X2 6EG says...
4:13pm Mon 14 May 12

LORD PETER MACVEY 0X2 6EG wrote:
King Joke wrote:
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.
It will be Digital Terrestrial.
And unlike you, most of us are not lucky enough to have the "Interweb" to watch the Oxford Channel online.

King Joke says...
4:17pm Mon 14 May 12

I didn't realise it would be digital, that's cool. 'Most of us' do have the internet, it's the minority who don't we need to consider.

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