Citizen
Television: a local dimension to Public Service Broadcasting,
edited by Dave Rushton, publishedby
John Libbey & Institute of
Local Television (1993) £19.50 inc p&p 232
pgs Hardback PART ONE-
Research & Analysis: Citizens and the Local Choice. Edinburgh
Television Study; Cable Company Franchise Commitments; Highways Authority
Experience
of UK Cable Build; Local Authority Cable Briefing; Reading the ITC's Mapping
Regional Views; Survey of Local Channels on UK Cable, 1992;
A Local Future on Cable? PART TWO- Commentary & Critique: Local
Public Service Television. Making Local Work; Amendments to the ITC's Draft
Invitation to Apply for Channel 5; Channel 5 and Local Television;
'Star Rating' Channel 5 Transmitters; The European Meeting of Local
Television. APPENDICES.
Local
Television Reviewed: essays on local television 1982-1993, Dave
Rushton, published byJohn Libbey & Institute of Local Television
(1994)£9.50 inc p&p 48
pgs
Softback Introduction;
Cable, Cable TV and Video; Work! Work!!; Cultural, Racial, Economic, Political,
Social & Class Bias (etc) ... on TV; Swindon Viewpoint, Aberdeen Cable,
Cable Authority and the Grapevine Channel; Origins of UK Cable; Cable, Channel
4 and
Tape Distribution.
Creating
Local Television: local and community television under the Restricted
Services Licence, Dave Rushton, published by John Libbey,
Institute of Local Television & CMA (1997) £10.50
inc p&p 96
pgs
Softback PART ONE -Policy
and Intervention. Policy and intervention; PART TWO-Preparing a TV RSL; Locating
frequency channels for TV RSLs; Blueprint for a TV RSL; Organising a TV RSL;
APPENDICES
Don
Quixote's Art & Television: seeing things in art and television, Dave
Rushton with an introduction by Terry Atkinson, published by School
Press (1998) £8.50
inc p&p 48
pgs
Softback Introduction, Terry Atkinson;
Noisy Channel; Art & Artifice: or designs on the past; Open Channels and
Media Literacy.
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Television Renewed: essays on local television 1994-2005, Dave
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Background;
Virtual Reality; Vicarious and Experiential News; A General Theory
of Spectrum; Defining the Social Geography of Local News Identity; Assessing
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Channel; A Local Television Reader; Scottish Local TV Forum Report; Some
pointers
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