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I was in the paper on Friday
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:52 pm
by SHARPBLUE
Seems that my stuff about The Old Swindon Cable is getting a bit of media attention.
As my local paper did a two page feature on Friday about the archive material I have put online.
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:59 pm
by GeeJee
So what did you exactly do?
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:26 pm
by SHARPBLUE
GeeJee wrote:So what did you exactly do?
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/lookingback/
I have a lot of archive material from the TV station that closed down. Using Google Video and YouTube I have been able to share this material with people from my town. My local paper are doing a series of articles about archiving the past in Swindon, as Swindon Cable was a pioneer in Local Community Broadcasting and the first company in Europe to do what they did back in the 70's, 80's and 90's - I felt that some of my material was important to share with people in my area. NTL closed the station down in 2000 when they took over (
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The local paper found the video's online and decided to feature what I was doing as part of the Looking Back Project they are working on. Incidentlly I am putting a site together for all this material to 'centralise' it all and to make it easier to find.
If you want to take a look at a bit of the history this is the first intro video I put online:
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news ... ack/part1/
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:00 pm
by AnDrOiD
Congrats SHARPBLUE!
Was that your 15 minutes of fame!?
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:27 pm
by SHARPBLUE
AnDrOiD wrote:Congrats SHARPBLUE!
Was that your 15 minutes of fame!?
Nah. Been in there before when we released our CD.
The worst interview I did was on TV in 1987 after Michael Ryan shot 16 people in the Hungerford Massacre, I come from Hungerford and was there that day... got interviewed for ITN news, I never saw the piece but quite a few did. I didn't know what to say at the time and was a bit shy. Plus the shock of what had been going on - it was all surreal.
