A New Local Channel Ch6 is on the Way

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Ch6

is planned
with 25million of BBC Former money.


Just Reported on Ch4News.


It means ITV Local News can go onto Ch6
which helps ITV - who wanted Ex BBC funding
for there local news


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/19/jeremy-hunt-new-television-channel

[Novo]

Get WWE on there, it will be just like old days

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Get WWE on there, it will be just like old days



It can have many shows
its all being set up soon.

Many Small Companies are behind it.


"Hunt hopes the new UK-wide channel will act as a "spine", probably with national programming mixed with local content from around the country to make it attractive to advertisers and therefore commercially viable."

[Jords]

Should be better than Channel 5 anyway. :laugh:

[arista]

will it be on freeview :)


Yes it will have to be on that.

[ILoveTRW]

Very American, I like.

[Patrick]

I have put together a list of shows, some new and some not new, that they can show in order to be the best channel The UK has EVER seen.

The Video Game Show
EastEnders | Walford's Gangsters
The Real World
Big Brother 12
1000 Ways To Die
A Shot At Love With Caroline Flack
The Real Hustle
Porn Through The Night


Sorted.

[Scarlett.]

I hear they're is plans to add a 6th channel into the main channels

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a298824/hunt-unveils-plans-for-local-tv-channel.html

[Patrick]

Oh he's boring.

I thought he'd be a legend and take on Big Brother and all that but he's just being a dull bastard who wants to air like the local Binco session or something.

Fails.

[Patrick]

This is the type of channel that deserves to have Doctors thrown at them.

[Scarlett.]

A sixth public service channel would have to be different from the others, Channel 6 sounds like it would be

[Kerry]

Dunno what number they'd give it. Sky One has 106

[Jordan.]

Channel 6 = Sky. http://www.greendaycommunity.org/Forum/public/style_emoticons/Dark/hmph.png

[Scarlett.]

Dunno what number they'd give it. Sky One has 106

Six, PSB's get the first slots, Sky probably once had 5's slot too

[Beastie]

Channel 6 could be the BB channel. If BBUK ends up with a year long BIG BROTHER!

[Kerry]

Six, PSB's get the first slots, Sky probably once had 5's slot too

Bloody 'ell. Just when I get used to just shoving the numbers in!

[Scarlett.]

The PSBs for each channel are

BBC One - Filled with programming for pretty much everyone
BBC Two - Documentary and different programming
ITV1 - Same as BBC One, must compete with BBC One
Channel 4 - Experimental channel, must keep trying to push the envelope
Channel 5 - No ones even sure anymore xD

[Kerry]

Still remember C5's launch. What a kerfuffle that was! Retuning everyones TV's across the land, it was so mad!

Then everyone was so excited about this new free channel which promised alsorts. Fuss for nowt :joker:

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/02/channel-6-bid-local-television

Its on its way.

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Six, PSB's get the first slots, Sky probably once had 5's slot too


No 105 is Ch5 on Sky.



Ch6 is soon
it goes on Freeview first.

[Scarlett.]

No 105 is Ch5 on Sky.



Ch6 is soon
it goes on Freeview first.
But Channel 5 started in the late 90's Sky began in the 80's :p

[Jessica.]

Channel 6 could be the BB channel. If BBUK ends up with a year long BIG BROTHER!

Oh that reminds me of this weird free channel on Sky in africa somewhere, there was like a gang of girls all living in a house and they were live on the tv channel 24/7, I didn't understand their language but I watched it a few times. I wish I could remember what it was called. :joker:

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But Channel 5 started in the late 90's Sky began in the 80's :p


So what it gets Public Funded shows.
So it is Ch5 on all systems.


Sky is the Leader
in HD broadcasting - Giving us bigger choices.

[seanraff07]

Hopefully it's better than ch5 has been so far.

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Hopefully it's better than ch5 has been so far.


No it will not be.


It has to get funds
daytime could include Great Local News Reports
then a hour of ads,


So its not meant to match other channels.

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"Channel 6, the national network set up to deliver local TV across the UK, today outlined what it claims will be the biggest boost to the independent TV production sector in 30 years.

CEO Horwood promised that Channel 6 would not be a "mishmash" of old US series and claimed that if the station gets the national contract it will deliver "the biggest boost to the UK's independent production sector since the launch of Channel 4 a generation ago".


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/15/channel-6-channel-5


Bold claims from CEO Richard Norwood.
Its still in the early stages.

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Under our plan, which has been fully costed by industry experts, we will launch the national network and around 9 local affiliates on Freeview, cable and satellite in 2013, building to 39 by 2017.

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/02/02/18215-channel-6-claims-local-will-grow-uk-tv-backbone/

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will it be aloud to show local sport?

It could do
as that would be connected to Local News
but slots are still being worked out
early to rule it in or out.

[Judas]

Sounds like a waste of money.

[arista]

Sounds like a waste of money.



Well they are on track
so time will tell on that.

[Judas]

Well they are on track
so time will tell on that.

I don't really see the need for it, we already have good 'local' news produced by the BBC/ITV. All this will do is take readers from the already dying local print media and remove listeners local radio.

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I don't really see the need for it, we already have good 'local' news produced by the BBC/ITV. All this will do is take readers from the already dying local print media and remove listeners local radio.



Things are changing


The local print problems
are running along side of this
with or without Ch6.


For example Local News on a Saturday
by the BBC - you are lucky sometimes to get 5mins worth
you could miss it so easy as the Sports take over.


You need to see the Final product
its to early to say you think we do not need it.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/02/luke-johnson-paul-jackson-local6

Luke Johnson ex- Ch4 and Paul Jackson ex-ITV
put in the bid for Ch6


Luke Johnson, the former chairman of Channel 4, has teamed with former BBC and ITV executive Paul Jackson to bid for culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's new national TV channel.

"Their group, Local6, is the ninth bidder to publicly declare an interest in running the channel, which is intended to provide a national spine for Hunt's initiative to create a new network of local TV services. Tuesday was the deadline for initial submissions of interest to Hunt.
Johnson, the entrepreneur and former Pizza Hut owner, stepped down as Channel 4 chairman at the end of 2009. Jackson is a former head of entertainment and comedy programming at the BBC and ITV."



Both of these men ran Channels
so they would be Ideal.