Midlands local channel now testing

[Analoguesat]

Big Centre TV are now reported to be testing on Freeview channel 8 on the Sutton Coldfield & Brierley Hill transmitters.






They are operated by Kaleidoscope - the archive tv people, and look whats to be seen on the promo loop!




Preview loop

 

[Captain Jack]

Ross, are there ANY "local" TV channels that have been successful since their launch? Seems to me like a massive failure...

 

[Analoguesat]

FRom the Guardian reports Ive been having a look at the STV ones dont seem to be doing too badly, and in the smaller English towns there seems to be a reasonable audience.

I still think most of them will end up

a) closing OR

b) amalgamating into a quasi national "local" mutiplex so they can sell more advertising

No doubt some of them will limp along with ever diminishing audiences before the backers throw the towel in - there is no real demand for local tv in the UK - we have seen that already with Manchester, Solent TV & any others that were on satellite in recent years - they all closed.

 

[A nonymous]

Seems to me like a massive failure...

I don't know if it will be. We're an odd lot from the West Midlands, Myself and Analoguesat are testament to that z

you'll be suprised at the crap we will watch

Nano

 

[Analoguesat]

Big Centre TV launched at 1800 this evening. Ive just had a look at their webcast

http://www.bigcentre.tv/watch-live

and spotted a Midlands institution



Yup its Crossroads

They ask for an email on the link but any old gibberish works ;)

 

[Analoguesat]

If you are into UK ice hockey check the game at 2200

 

[timo_w2s]

I heard they where going to show Crossroads. I used to watch it with my mum as a young child, not so much out of choice really but because it was on in the background...

 

[Analoguesat]

Apparently theres a possibility of some old Tiswas episodes getting a rerun too

(And theres a lot of the shows missing so if you have any on video tape please let me know as I know a man who would be very pleased to copy the tapes, for return to the archives.)


Its about 90% missing from the archives!

 

[statalite]

Have to provide name and email to watch the stream that's a bit sneeky of them.

 

[Archived-1]

I heard they where going to show Crossroads. I used to watch it with my mum as a young child, not so much out of choice really but because it was on in the background...

I am quite sure from memory, crossroads stopped then started again a few years after ?, i used to watch it with my parents

 

[Analoguesat]

Have to provide name and email to watch the stream that's a bit sneeky of them.

You can put anything _ I used "a@b.com"

 

[statalite]

You can put anything _ I used "a@b.com"

Of course yes, totally went over me

 

[timo_w2s]

I am quite sure from memory, crossroads stopped then started again a few years after ?, i used to watch it with my parents

Yes, didn't they make a re-make in the late 90s or something? Judging from the screenshot this looks more like the original going by the moustache and picture quality (or is it Analoguesat's dodgy RF link? ;)).

Edit: Oh can't be RF if it's a webstream, never mind.

 

[Analoguesat]

Not the best screengrab Ive ever done but the webstream ones are tricky - by the time Id got that one using print screen, pasted into my image manipulation programme & was ready to do another one the bloody programme had finished

 

[lovelyperson]

.....on the Sutton Coldfield & Brierley Hill transmitters.

Born and bred in Sutton Coldfield and i purchased my first property overlooking the Pype Hayes golf course for some 2000 english pounds and Crossroads was based and recorded in the nearby ( 300m) Penns Hall Hotel......happy days !

Wow...long time ago!

 

[Analoguesat]

FRom the Guardian reports Ive been having a look at the STV ones dont seem to be doing too badly, and in the smaller English towns towns there seems to be a reasonable audience.

I still think most of them will end up

a) closing OR

b) amalgamating into a quasi national "local" mutiplex so they can sell more advertising

No doubt some of them will limp along with ever diminishing audiences before the backers throw the towel in - there is no real demand for local tv in the UK - we have seen that already with Manchester, Solent TV & any others that were on satellite in recent years - they all closed.

My (b) prediction is coming true. A comment from fm a516 on a DS thread says some of the local tv channels have banded together under the Local TV Network banner so they can sell national advertising

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=77781712&postcount=41

Its the start of close cooperation between the channels.

 

[statalite]

I wonder if it will lead to big centre coming to satellite?

 

[Analoguesat]

Very unlikely - its just not worth the extra transmission costs for the tiny channels for the handful of extra in area viewers it would bring in.

 

[statalite]

Agreed but some are still on satellite.
With big centre being Birmingham it serves a good chunk of population.

 

[A nonymous]

Theres some class stuff on tonight

Admit it AS, your jelous that you cant get it in glorius Brummie vision directly off Sutton Coldfield TX