Region. promoting visitation

The University of Western Sydney has teamed with Television Sydney to produce a new weekly TV news show, “Local Loop”, promoting visitation in Greater Sydney. Local Loop is researched, produced and presented by students from the University of Western Sydney, giving them valuable firsthand experience of working in a television production unit. The show commences on Friday, September 23 at 6:45pm on TVS digital channel 44.

Region. Plea from community TV

TVS, Sydney’s community TV station, based in Penrith, along with similar stations in other capital cities, have lobbied the Federal Government for funding to help with the changeover to digital transmission. The not-for-profit stations have an estimated national audience of four million people, but they say without government help the industry will be dead in two years. The Australian Community Television Alliance's Laurie Patton is the secretary and chief executive of TVS told the ABC it was ironic that while the Federal Government was actively encouraging people to switch to digital television, it was leaving a vital part of the television broadcasting community behind.

Region. TVS sets up a foundation

TVS, Sydney’s free-to-air community TV channel has set up the Television Sydney Foundation to seek tax-deductible donations from viewers and from socially engaged companies and individuals. Funds will be used to support the creation of locally made programs from the Sydney communities. TVS, located at the University of Western Sydney’s Werrington South campus, at Penrith, is a not-for-profit company licensed under the provisions of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Services Act (1992) governing community television. Its transmitter’s coverage includes Wollongong, the lower Blue Mountains and Central Coast.