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how would one start a new terrestrial channel here in the uk, if one was so inclined?

be outrageously rich

like, how did C5 get going?

wouldn't you like to know

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i was a teenager at the time, but i remember it being advertised heavily for over a year after its launch

i always thought it was weird that they would just add one more channel and nothing else

like, who says that's the way it has to be?

just imagine the amount of money, to buy up failing shows like Home and Away

It's old hat mate

I've not even owned a TV for 13 years

i know man, i just enjoy hypotheticals

the logic i'm following here is that a large reason these news/propaganda sources hold so much sway is thanks to the older generation of viewers who refuse to abandon traditional TV in favour of new media. So if new media hosts banded together to form their own broadcast channel, they would instantly gain some sense of legitimacy from these older viewers

"It's on TV, it must be true"

You'd have to get a government license and hundreds of thousands of pounds to set up a broadcasting station and get equipment

Vice tried making a TV channel

Didn't work out

he project was revived in mid-1994 when the ITC re-advertised the franchise. Tom McGrath, then-president of Time Warner International Broadcasting, put together a revised frequency plan with NTL and consulting engineer Ellis Griffiths, involving less retuning and greater signal coverage. Lord Hollick, then chief executive of Meridian Broadcasting (later United News & Media, and UBM) took up the project as lead investor as UK law prohibited Time Warner from owning more than 25%. Pearson Television, who by now owned original licence bidders Thames Television, also came on board. When McGrath left to become President of Paramount, Time Warner dropped out of the project and was replaced by CLT (known in the UK for Radio Luxembourg). Other bidders for the licence included UKTV (led by Canwest and Select TV which bid £36m for the licence, New Century Television (owned by BSkyB and Granada who bid £2m) Virgin TV (backed by Virgin Communications and Associated Newspapers who bid £22m, the same as Channel 5 Broadcasting who won the licence)[16]

Hello there wikipedia

oh man NTL, there's a name i've not heard in a long time

so you can bid 36 but 22 won

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kickstarter anyone?

fix vice first

lul

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ok looking past the financial implications, do you think that logic has any merit? Do you think this would gain any ground in waking up the population?

no

take 22M put it in your toilet and flush

hmm

I think I just find the idea of high profile youtubers banding together to form their own broadcast network such a romantic idea

well youtube and platfroms like it are the new radio

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I'm not disputing that, but my train of thought that led me here was to try and reach the older holdouts who still think the internet aint gonna catch on

TV = Legitimate in these peoples eyes

true

@Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 what do you think of the One State Solution?

I stay out of the conflict because I believe it will never end

A shared state would be helpful but I do not believe people will stop fighting

Not a chance