Memorandum submitted by MIMAC ( Moving
Image Media Access Centre )
MIMAC ( Moving Image Media Access Centre ) is
a media access centre serving Fife and north east central Scotland.
We are involved with ( as a programme maker ) and passionate about,
community TV and Internet broadcasting, as this is key to our
ability, and that of the community we serve, to be able to distribute
our culture and views to a wider audience.
We have been following closely progress on Local
TV through our Scottish membership organisation for community
video—MEDIA ACCESS PROJECTS SCOTLAND( MAPS ), which represents
community video and TV interests from the Borders through to the
Highlands.
It is vitally important in all areas—and
especially for rural communities—that Local TV reaches all
households and that these channels offer a genuine public purpose
to the local scale, for education, social inclusion, government
and health information.
We have seen from the experiments of the RSL's
in Scotland, the potential, and urge your Committee to investigate
a smaller tier of public service broadcasting at local level available
to all.
January 2007
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