Campaigners Push for York TV Station
Campaigners have vowed to press ahead with plans for a local TV station for York, and say a web-based channel could be up and running sooner than first hoped.
York missed out when the Government granted the first licences earlier this month, but the team behind the plans say they have not been deterred.
Carl Wolf, business development manager at SCY, who helped spearhead York’s bid, said the regulator OFCOM had chosen areas that had the largest population coverage, and where stations were therefore easiest to set up from a transmitter point of view.
He said: “It appears that OFCOM are recreating regional television and not something that will provide hyper local news. The York partners have always been concerned over the benefit of using digitally terrestrially transmitted local TV as it uses legacy technology, and does not allow people to watch TV on demand.”
He said York missed out because it falls between two transmitters, Emley Moor and Bilsdale, but he said a better option was to focus on a web-based TV station, via internet protocol (IPTV).
He said this would allow viewers to watch when they wanted to, without being tied to scheduled programmes, and could allow more channels to cover different genres.
He said it could also be viewed by York tourists when they returned home.
Source: The Press
