YouTube hosts TVS highlights

Last week TVS - Sydney's increasingly popular community television channel - became the first Australian station to simultaneously stream live via the internet.  Viewers can watch TVS online by going to the website www.tvs.tv

And from today TVS now has a YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com/TVSTelevisionSydney.  Highlights of the channel's most popular programs will progressively be added to the site.

TVS Chief Executive, Laurie Patton, said the decision to transmit live via the web and post segments on YouTube reflected the station's long term desire to be available across all distribution platforms.

In response to requests from some program makers TVS recently amended its licence conditions to allow individual program segments of no longer than five minutes to be posted on YouTube and the like.  As it happens there was limited interest from community program providers in being seen online and few availed themselves of the opportunity.

"However, in recognition of the fact that this represents an additional promotional vehicle for TVS we have decided to do it ourselves," Mr Patton said.

18 February 2009

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