Kent TV
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Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
in the United Kingdom. It was launched in September 2007 by Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Kent County Council is the county council that governs the majority of the county of Kent in England. It provides the upper tier of local government, below which are 12 district councils, and around 300 town and parish councils. The county council has 84 elected councillors...
and is run Independently by Bob Geldof's media company Ten Alps. Content is produced in one of four ways, in house, user generated, commissioned and acquired. A decision was made in February 2010 to axe the enterprise at the end of the pilot period, in March 2010.
About KentTV
Source:KentTVKent TV (KentTV.com) is the new internet TV channel for everyone living and working in Kent. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can watch video programmes about local issues, the arts, business, education, health, leisure, local government, tourism, travel and much more. Kent TV was launched by Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Kent County Council is the county council that governs the majority of the county of Kent in England. It provides the upper tier of local government, below which are 12 district councils, and around 300 town and parish councils. The county council has 84 elected councillors...
(Kent.gov.uk) and is operated by the independent media company, Ten Alps Digital (TenAlpsDigital.com).Ten Alps Digital is part of Ten Alps – a factual media company that provides and manages content on TV, radio, internet TV, and print.
Board of Governors
Source:KentTVThe Kent TV Board of Governors is responsible for:
- Creating and developing the Editorial Specification for Kent TV
- Monitoring the Channel’s performance
- Ensuring that the Channel delivers good value to the people of Kent
- Ensuring that the Channel is fair and impartial
- Arbitrating on complaints from visitors, in the last resort, if the complainant is not satisfied with the response from the Kent TV production team.
Source:KentTV:
As of January 2009, The Board of Governors consists of the following members:
- Cheryl Armitage, Media Consultant, Armitage Bucks Communications
- Ian Chittenden, County Councillor for Maidstone North East
- Nigel Dacre, Ten Alps Project Director
- Peter Gilroy, Chief Executive Kent County Council
- Charlie Hendry, Chief Fire Officer and Chief Executive for Kent Fire and Rescue Service
- Martin Jackson, Media Consultant
- Richard King, County Councillor Ashford Rural West
- Adrian Leppard, Assistant Chief Constable
- John McGhie, Kent TV Editor
- Geoff Miles, Managing Director of The Maidstone Studios
- Tanya Oliver, Head of Strategic Development Unit / Interim Corporate Communications Manager
- Ray Parker, County Councillor Northfleet & Gravesend West
- Steve Phoenix, Chief Executive of West Kent PCT
- Ann Sutton, Chief Executive of Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT
- Paul Wookey, Chief Executive, Locate in Kent
Criticism
Criticism from local media companies, politicians and residents surrounding the funding of KentTV prompted Ten Alps figurehead Bob Geldof to address the issues in a short interview with the internet station which was also shown as part of a 2008 BBC News segment. Bob Geldof stated that KentTV was a "vital public service, which is all we ever wanted to be" and that "Its old media versus new media – it’s the old establishment versus new kids on the block ...and it's obviously commercially driven. I think the local papers fear that they are going to lose revenues. But empirically, that's just not so".During the 2008 BBC Segment local politician Trudy Dean suggested that the channel was biased towards the Conservatives, and rarely interviewed other political parties, the channel's editor John McGhie responded by stating that in the same way that Labour cabinet members in the national government were on the BBC more because they were in office, so too were the Conservatives locally in Kent and that on all party political matters, all three parties within KCC (Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Kent County Council is the county council that governs the majority of the county of Kent in England. It provides the upper tier of local government, below which are 12 district councils, and around 300 town and parish councils. The county council has 84 elected councillors...
) were given equal say.
External links
- KentTV.com - KentTV.com Internet Channel Website
- Ten Alps Digital - Ten Alps Digital, Contracted to Run KentTV.com
- Kent County Council - Council that Launched KentTV.com
- Ten Alps - Ten Alps PLC, Parent Company Website