On the 10th October, Britain will see the launch of its first internet based political TV Channel, 18DoughtyStreet Talk TV (see the blog, here). Its founders are looking to create a network 100 citizen journalists (local and global), who, armed with camcorders, will help create the content to be transmitted.
There is some concern that the channel will be overtly right-of-centre, what with ConservativeHome founder Tim Montgomerie and Tory blogger Iain Dale, as presenters; although Iain promises non-Conservative content too.
Shows can be streamed, downloaded, and thankfully, dumped onto your iPod to enjoy in the toilet (video or audio-only). I’m pretty sure that if it isn’t avowedly non-partisan (and i don’t think it will be), it will fail to gain any genuine credibility, and as such, revenues will be low. However, anything that delivers more political-fodder to a junkie like me is more than welcome, but be sure, my partisan radar will be twitching.
An article refers to the channel in today’s Times (link).
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