I'm starting my own TV channel

Hi all,
Im starting up my own tv channel. It will be availiable through cable, with Telewest. Im trying to make a deal to give me a channel but it takes ages. The channel will focusing on news, entertainment, technology and music. No sport, as its boring and i cant get deals with all the major people But im still happy, im in the process of designing the idents and bumpers. Im using flash mx, do you think thats a good choice? Thanks me.

You weren't by any chance responsible for this?

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/nobb_tv_copy1.jpg

luckily im not.

Sounds good. How you gunna broadcast it ? You gotta network control room ?

er... when you rang up Telewest Customer Services to ask about getting a channel, this 'taking ages' didn't go along the lines of 'just hold on the line for a minute sir', at which point some music sounding incredibly like a dialing tone started playing, did it?

Sorry about being skeptical, but seeing as anyone setting up a channel tends to do so in the utmost of secrecy (eg Setanta, CBM.. until it went tits up), I have my doubts over someone posting all this (and implying he's a one-man operation). It would be highly unlikely even on Sky, so on Telewest....

why should i keep it quiet? its good to let everyone know. I think at least. How lonng does it take Telewest to get you a channel space? Its ages.

Not just how long - I think they wanna see some cash first.

time to start crying they said NO. So ive decided that im going to introduce it as a Internet Channel via streaming. I dont know if this has ever been done before, but i couldnt care as im trying it now. I think this is a good choice cause now the whole WORLD can view it (as long as they have broadband) which is cool as ill be reachinbg a wider audience. luigi

Well I'm not surprised that they rejected you. A one man band operation isn't really going to impress the people at Telewest in the slightest.

Even if you stream over the web, you will need loads of outgoing bandwidth - at least 256kbps per stream for broadband if you want a reasonable picture and sound quality in Real or WM. Given that the adverage cable/DSL line in the UK does has a max of 256kbps upload, you will find it very hard to do it. It's just not realistic unless you have a very expensive leased line to cater for viewers.

Nevermind the clear losses you would make - I find it hard to imagine you earning enough from advertisers to compensate from buying the rights to programmes, getting a dedicated 2Mb line etc.
It just seems daft...leading me to the conclusion that you're takin the p*ss.

Good site

Anything sounds better than NTL's (Non) Local Channel, ex-CWC areas Channel 14, most of the time the picture quality is worse than Yes 661.