UK’s First Broadband Television Station Launches

The UK’s first broadband television station, World Art Media Television (WAM TV) has launched this week.

The station, which broadcasts a range of arts, music, culture and entertainment twenty-four hours a day, has been given unlimited bandwidth from its sponsors, PSI-net. The sponsors claim that WAM TV is an important project in creating the model for future independent web TV production.

A spokesperson for WAM TV said: “The idea was to create a channel by artists for artists, that may sound a bit naff, but the truth is there are many people out there who are sick of safe TV fodder, which is directed by ratings rather than content.”

No other TV station in the UK has taken the plunge to transmit entirely on broadband, but WAM TV is confident that they are at the forefront of a “revolution”. Paul Blyth, CEO of WAM TV, commented: “This is not about competing this is about giving people a real choice in what to watch next. We want to produce something truly different and WAM TV should inspire people to look at what the internet really can offer.”

WAM TV has been in development for over 6-years and he group behind it have screened The Fringe event in Edinburgh every year since 1998 to a world-wide audience.

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