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Creative Vision & The Broadcasting Trust

Creative Vision is a regional media studion based in Wales.

Television Trust for Scotland (TTS) was set up in 1989 to provide education and training for those seeking to broadcast on community TV channels. As a charity TTS has been run by volunteers working in small-scale broadcasting and education since then. Early projects included the Berlin Tapes – monthly magazine programmes broadcast on Offener Kanal – comprising student and community videos. Research projects with the Institute of Local Television included videos and interviews with staff working at community TV stations throughout Europe, including student TV stations in Sweden and Germany. TTS was involved in one of the first trans-national community TV broadcasts when ISDN was used to broadcast a concert from Craigmillar High School in Edinburgh on to Berlin’s Offener Kanal. From 1999-2001 TTS provided programming and training for young people with access to the local TV stations Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee. These followed two themes Diverse TV – producing programming by cultural and linguistic minorities and The Politics Show – which introduced the complexities of politics – community, local, national, UK-wide and EU – to young people. During this time some of our projects were supported by the EU – including Voyager – in which exchanges and contacts occurred with counterpart programmes across Europe.
In 2002 TTS produced Rebuilding Scotland for the Scottish Executive, on planning policies and design in rural Scotland. Training schemes were also developed with Channel Six Dundee. Skatus Exodus was one programme produced in Dundee on skate-boarding. Those involved have since continued working with Gregor Dewar - two of whom came across to Berlin last month.

In 2002-03 TTS provided the community channel ‘e-tv’ for the Institute of Local Television’s year long trial of the 2.4GHz TV transmission system in Aberfeldy. ‘e-tv’ mixed community and arts programmes from TTS’s archive with locally produced programmes on archaeology, youth activities, local history and tourism.

TTS are currently working with the Leith Community Media Group to develop a TV and radio facility in Leith. Small-scale TV projects across the UK draw on TTS (and in future The Broadcasting Trust) to assist with training and community media development.

The TTS archive is gradually being made available on the web. Access to a limited number of videos is through ‘localtvonline.com’. In the New Year twenty-five hours of the archive will be accessible in this way – at three levels of compression – with cultural programmes also available on video for interested community broadcasters to use. The Trust’s educational programmes are also available on DVD and the contents of the already published DVDs are shown on our website.

TTS is completing its merger with the Association of Scottish Small-scale Broadcasters to form The Broadcasting Trust. The new Trust will begin work in 2004 with an extended brief to focus on all electronic community media developments – radio, TV and internet – and to continue to support training and other initiatives which increase awareness of community broadcasting opportunities.

TTS works closely with the Institute of Local Television – a not-for-profit company – to cover small-scale broadcast and community media research and development, training, production and dissemination. Charities in the UK are unable to take a lobbying and policy-forming role. The Trustees of the Television Trust for Scotland have continued into The Broadcasting Trust are Brendan Murphy, Sandie Goodyear and Dave Rushton – with extensive community radio, social research and policy and TV experience since the early 1980s. Brendan and Sandie helped found the UK’s first community radio station – Heartland FM - some fourteen years ago. The Broadcasting Trust also has a non-profit trading arm - Broadcast Forum Ltd.

Trainers working with TTS and The Broadcasting Trust vary with the volume and character of project-work but currently include TV graphic designer Toubie Jack, producer /director Gregor Dewar and our broadcast engineer Asif Naseer.