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BBC Director-General Greg Dyke has announced a £25 million investment in regional broadcasting and ground-breaking broadband digital TV and learning initiatives centred on Hull, the East Riding and Lincolnshire.
'Hull will be seeing the future of broadcasting before the rest of the country,' he said today at the launch of the ambitious, multi faceted development project and interactive trial.
The BBC's unrivalled technological and programme-making expertise will combine to create innovative new kinds of learning, news and entertainment services. These will be trialled across Hull, delivered direct to homes and schools across the community, offering users unprecedented levels of interactivity through the unique broadband TV platform that Kingston Communications have constructed across the city.
'We are opening the door to a new era. New interactive technologies provide the BBC, as a public service broadcaster, with a unique opportunity to get closer to our audience - and for them to get more back from the BBC,' said Mr Dyke at a launch event which Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott also attended.
The new initiatives include:
-Launching a new, dedicated TV region - broadcasting local news seven days a week for viewers across Hull, the East Riding and Lincolnshire
-Creating a new state-of-the-art broadcasting centre in the centre of Hull which will be home to BBC Radio Humberside, one of the country's most successful local radio stations
-Integrating a ‘drop in' Open Centre for local people within the new building, providing free ICT , basic skills and multi media training. A mobile bus with built in studio and computers will offer the same accessibility to a wider community across the region.
So everyone is Hull can celebrate .... not sure what the new TV region means ... whether it'll be totally separate from Look North with it's own 1830 programme - or just an opt like now
BBC Director-General Greg Dyke has announced a £25 million investment in regional broadcasting and ground-breaking broadband digital TV and learning initiatives centred on Hull, the East Riding and Lincolnshire.
'Hull will be seeing the future of broadcasting before the rest of the country,' he said today at the launch of the ambitious, multi faceted development project and interactive trial.
The BBC's unrivalled technological and programme-making expertise will combine to create innovative new kinds of learning, news and entertainment services. These will be trialled across Hull, delivered direct to homes and schools across the community, offering users unprecedented levels of interactivity through the unique broadband TV platform that Kingston Communications have constructed across the city.
'We are opening the door to a new era. New interactive technologies provide the BBC, as a public service broadcaster, with a unique opportunity to get closer to our audience - and for them to get more back from the BBC,' said Mr Dyke at a launch event which Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott also attended.
The new initiatives include:
-Launching a new, dedicated TV region - broadcasting local news seven days a week for viewers across Hull, the East Riding and Lincolnshire
-Creating a new state-of-the-art broadcasting centre in the centre of Hull which will be home to BBC Radio Humberside, one of the country's most successful local radio stations
-Integrating a ‘drop in' Open Centre for local people within the new building, providing free ICT , basic skills and multi media training. A mobile bus with built in studio and computers will offer the same accessibility to a wider community across the region.
So everyone is Hull can celebrate .... not sure what the new TV region means ... whether it'll be totally separate from Look North with it's own 1830 programme - or just an opt like now
