Local TV

right you are.

Although looking, it appears they only said 6.30pm.

You do realise we have DST in the UK? - we're currently an hour ahead of GMT (GMT+1 = BST: British [so called] Summer Time)

A video on Sheffield Live's Vimeo account has an interview with a 'founding member' about today's launch.

https://vimeo.com/106909825

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77772000/jpg/_77772531_sheffieldlive.jpg

Well... it's launched.

ETA: What do you think "TX LOST 16" means?

Feedback on Sheffield Live's Facebook isn't positive.

https://www.facebook.com/sheffieldlive

Yikes...soo we've gone from one extreme (London Live) to the next... Looks like some really low budget cable channel from 1995. Hats off to Notts TV for the right balance, sheesh..

Launch presenter Charlotte Reid on Twitter this evening after her eventful first bulletin.

Interesting that Sheffield is community owned and run. If they're not in it to make huge amounts of money, and can cover their costs, then they may find a small but loyal audience that will watch?

They talk about broadcasting to non-English speaking parts of the community which could be an interesting direction to go in.

That said - there are baselines of quality, and if you drop below them output - however well meaning - can become uncomfortable to watch.

I understand they're using one transmitter currently which doesn't cover the whole city. Is the current one covering those areas with high density ethnic minority populations?

Not really. Because of the hilly terrain around Sheffield, there's about 7 different transmitters people can get their signal from. It's not unusual to see houses on the same street with aerials pointing in different directions to get the strongest signal. It's a problem the BBC and ITV have struggled with for years, because some are even pointed at Belmont in Lincolnshire.

Crosspool - the mast they're currently using - is the "main" Sheffield transmitter. It just isn't received by everybody.

Eeek... Looks like public access channel quality. Awww well bless their hearts, maybe it will get better over time.

I think, in reality, that is kind of what it is aiming to be some of the time. (Their archive slot sounds very close...)

Though I doubt they want their main news programme to be thought of as that... The sad thing is that you don't need lots of expensive kit to make a studio look tolerable - but you do need people who know what they are doing to set things up and teach people (or show them what not to touch...)

Similarly you can train people to make basic, watchable news packages simply and effectively using very simple systems. But you need to know how to do basic sound editing, how to shoot for an edit, and how to tell a story.

(BBC News was effectively cuts-only until the early 00s for all of its main bulletin news editing. Two machine front-panel editing was still the norm long after the move to 16:9 production, as they were still cutting to and TX-ing from Beta SP, even though they were shooting on DVCam...)