KentTV.com was an internet-based broadband television channel providing content relating to the county of Kent in the United Kingdom. It was launched in September 2007 by Kent County Council 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.
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About KentTV
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Kent 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.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
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The Kent TV Board of Governors is responsible for:
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As of January 2009, The Board of Governors consists of the following members:
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) were given equal say.