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To All:
Forgive my intrusion into your discussion but the issue of "outsider's
onslaught" is a serious competitive threat to any small local organization.
While your article is focused on radio, the same issue applies (even more so)
to television.

Here in the US, the latest craze in TV is the direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
that beams popular television programming directly into the home and competes
against the offerings of the local cable television operators.

The only way the cable operator can compete is differentiate their products
from the DBS companies. Since DBS can not provide LOCAL INFORMATION, this is
how the local broadcaster can be different.

I think that providing local information is not only a means of survival for
the local broadcaster but it is also a duty from the point of view of being a
public service provider.

Our company promotes the delivery of local information and provides products
to cable operators that help support this idea. We have established a web page
at http://www.xmission.com/~frl/frlcatv1.htm that discusses the needs of
Community Access Television.

After seeing the article referenced herein, I believe I will add a reference
to this discussion list on the page. If anyone has any other ideas for
content, please let me know.


James Harvey

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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 04:24:02 -0400
From: johnb@ingrid.misa.org.na (John Barker - MISA)
Reply-To: devmedia@uoguelph.ca
Sender: devmedia@uoguelph.ca
Subject: MEDIA-SOUTH PACIFIC: Gearing Up Against Outsiders' Onslaught
To: kwakely@uoguelph.ca

>Here is an article recently posted by MISA, which may be of interest
>>
>>
>>               Copyright 1995 Inter Press Service.
>>          All rights reserved. Distribution via MISANET.
>>
>>                        *** 31-Aug-95 ***
>>
>>
>>MEDIA-SOUTH PACIFIC: Gearing Up Against Outsiders' Onslaught
>>
>>   By Kalinga Seneviratne
>>
>>MELBOURNE, Aug 31 (IPS) - Many South Pacific island broadcasters
>>are bemoaning the entry of foreign media organisations into
>>their  territories, but some local station officials prefer to
>>see the  potential competition as a challenge.
>>
>>   Instead of wasting time worrying about losing their viewers
>>and listeners to the newcomers, a few broadcasters in the
>>region's small nations are busy hatching schemes to give a good
>>fight for audience share.
>>
>>   At the tenth annual assembly of the Pacific Islands
>>Broadcasting Association (PIBA) held here last week, many
>>delegates expressed concern that their governments' new media
>>liberalisation policies would spell doom for the struggling
>>public broadcast systems in the region.
>>
>>   But in the island of Niue, where the population is about
>>2,200, the local public radio station has come up with a model
>>that promises to hold its own against the impending 'foreign
>>invasion'.
>>
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>
>David Lush
>Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
>Private Bag 13386
>Windhoek, Namibia
>Tel. +264 61 232975, Fax. 248016
>e-mail: dlush@ingrid.misa.org.na
>

John Barker, Coordinator (Broadcasting)
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Private Bag 13386, Windhoek, NAMIBIA
Tel: +264 61 232975 Fax +264 61 248016
E-mail johnb@ingrid.misa.org.na




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