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• 06.12.10
  Why, IMHO, 81 into MyCornwall.TV and YourNorwich.TV won’t go; whatever Messrs Parry and Shott think, the answer to local ‘TV’ will bubble up from below… Advertising, General, Journalism | (3)

  There are many, many reasons why this caught my eye this week.  www.MyCornwall.TV  First things first. It only actually caught my eye courtesy of Mr Will Perrin; who tweeted it out with due reference to '#ifnc' on whose 'beauty panel' he sat and the news of whose demise came as no great shock to anyone last Tuesday.   As in the demise of the 'Independently Financed News Consortia' as opposed to Mr Perrin; he, last time I looked, was alive and kicking and still talking about local.   We, of course, had our own reasons to follow the fate of the IFNCs with particular interest; with ...

  Tagged: IFNCs, Jeremy Hunt, MyCornwall.TV, Roger Parry
  
• 01.24.10
  Making Mr Hunt’s vision of city-based TV stations flesh will take a large dollop of networked thinking: a few random thoughts from GMG’s Oxford gig… mycity.tv and all that. Advertising, General | (1)

  I guess as very much the new boy of the party, it's rather beholden on me to add my thoughts regarding events of last Thursday and GMG's Oxford Media Convention 2010. And if the thoughts that follow initially appeared somewhat at odds and unconnected, apologies; I think there's a link there somewhere. Just. Given the still-fledgling state of www.addiply.com, we opted not to book the Presidential Suite at The Randolph this year; instead it was a B&B in Summertown. Was fine; a bus ride in. And for those who know their north Oxford, it was bang opposite BBC Oxford on Banbury Road. Could see ...

  Tagged: Guardian Media Group, IFNCs, OfCom, Trinity Mirror
  

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