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ITV Local Yorkshire goes live

I'm pleased to say that as of today ITV Local Yorkshire has officially launched to the public. The Calendar News team in Leeds has been fantastically supportive and are now promoting the service on air - including a package to go out on this evening's show.    

If you don't know what ITV Local is, I would encourage you to have a look. The service is open to development right now and so we are keen to enter into what ITV calls "Partnerships with the public" - this sounds very BBC, but for once I think ITV may have opened the gates to something which could pip them to the post in regard to community facing television.

The Leeds team has a lot of freedom to develop the site in ways that reflect our communities. I happen to believe that material exploring aspects of faith in the region could be very strong - we have an Archbishop in the region and very lively Muslim and other communities. There are alternative worship groups like Host and Visions forging new ground so let's see where we can go.

If you are a local film maker or community group interested in entering into a media partnership please let me know. It is likely that we will be significantly involved in the Leeds International Film Festival and we are already making contact with filmaking outfits like Inspired Youth in York.

e.mail me or the team directly at yorkshire@itvlocal.com if you think we could collaborate in any way

Last Day at Greenbelt

Last Day at Greenbelt
Originally uploaded by markwaddington.

This is Coldcut from last night who, for me, were one of the highlights of Greenbelt this year.

As always the festival is a fantastic place to take stock and receive fresh inspiration for the year. Over the last 25 years Greenbelt has been a constant in my life, outliving most other activities, and consequently it's a place where we meet many friends. 

Mark Yaconelli's talks were also very good. I love his very simple, personal, human, real lifeness. The humorous images he paints in his story telling are as good as any tale told by the likes of Bill Bryson.

Playing at VJ with Joel was just the most fantastic thing, and grateful that he wasn't put off by an old bloke thrashing around on a laptop a few feet away; I think I would like to do this some more if I get the opportunity.

Anyway, if you are a DJ looking for some visuals, I'm the man.

VJ/DJ @ Greenbelt

Here's the nice poster made up by the talented DJ Joel for his Greenbelt slot. I'm thrilled to be playing a supporting role providing the visuals. The idea on the visuals side of things is that the audience will provide some of the clips - so if you are at Greenbelt in Cheltenham please consider sending some short clips to upload@yourplace.tv

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