Monday, 23 November 2009

Andy Stegall and Christine Alsford

Andy Stegall of ITV, Sky (and just of this week the BBC)OR Christine Alsford (ITV Meridian social affairs correspondent) will be the guest editor for WINOL this Wednesday. We have also signed these two very senior and current broadcast news and sports journalists up to lead the basic 'off line' training of year one in television news production (making packages etc) after easter. Andy and Christine worked with us last year and we are delighted to welcome them back, playing an even more central role in the development of the course. We also heard today that the university is backing WINOL's bid for a free to air digital TV franchise (channels 33,34 and 35 on the digital transmitter at Foley on the Isle of Wight). If this succeeds Winchester will by 2012 be the first university in the UK to transmit news (and entertainment and educational) channels in this way. The channel will be available on set top boxes (if the plan goes ahead) in up to two million homes in the south. It is part of a major new journalism research project at the university into community broadcasting and alternative economic models for broadcasting news and factual programming in the future.

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