Comments on: Local TV station fades to black – a victim of our times http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/ BRASSmedia.ca - bringing web 2.0 to the enterprise Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Loss of local TV – feel the pain « BRASSmedia http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/#comment-1455 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:37:23 +0000 http://brassmedia.ca/?p=1020#comment-1455 [...] 10, 2009 Our local TV station – CHCA-TV faded to black at the end of August this year. Even though some folks felt that it stopped being a local station [...]

]]> By: Local TV a pawn in the battle between networks and cable « BRASSmedia http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/#comment-1410 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:11:38 +0000 http://brassmedia.ca/?p=1020#comment-1410 [...] on how they turned five strong local TV stations into failing and eventually failed businesses (CHCA-TV in Red Deer for example)? Or are they just mad that cable companies are raking in the dough ($2billion profits for 2008) [...]

]]> By: Television studio in your basement – TWiT TV « BRASSmedia http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/#comment-1390 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:09:47 +0000 http://brassmedia.ca/?p=1020#comment-1390 [...] Red Deer is without a broadcast TV station at the end of this month but if anyone out there is interested in starting up a web based TV operation maybe you should take Leo’s setup as your model. It might be low-tech by CNN or CBC standards but it’s all NEW-tek – relying on mostly digital components to bring his shows to the inner-nets. As Leo said in his recent TWiT (this week in tech) show, only the microphones will be analog. It’s not nearly as costly as a traditional broadcast studio but does a great job in delivering a technically acceptable end product over the web. [...]

]]> By: deano http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/#comment-1358 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:10:24 +0000 http://brassmedia.ca/?p=1020#comment-1358 Movement to make CHEK local community owned TV – why not the same with CHCA in Red Deer?

http://www.pugetsoundradio.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1248732877

]]> By: tipsy http://brassmedia.ca/2009/07/23/local-tv-station-fades-to-black-a-victim-of-our-times/#comment-1353 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:30:30 +0000 http://brassmedia.ca/?p=1020#comment-1353 Sad story but this is our modern reality. If something is not giving the wanted income it’s dissapearing. And no matter is it something totally unworthy even one article in newspaper or is it something really important to local or worldwide community.

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