Category: West Midlands Local TV
Date: 02.06.2006
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Four talented Birmingham and Black Country individuals have outshone hundreds of other hopefuls to be selected to read the weather bulletins for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Local TV Pilot Service
for Birmingham.
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Open auditions were held at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Birmingham's Public Space in The Mailbox on Friday 26 May.
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Sharon Hayles from Granville Square, Birmingham; Kimberley Bell from Kings
Heath, Birmingham; Andrew
South from Wolverhampton; and Joy Smith from Walsall have been given the chance to gain one week's unpaid work
placement each, during which the successful candidates will read ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Birmingham
TV and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Black Country TV weather reports.
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At the auditions candidates were asked to step in front of a camera and read a short weather
script from an autocue and say in one minute why they should be the next voice of
the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local TV pilot.
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A panel of judges pored over the recordings before
choosing the four winners.
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Chas Watkin, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local TV Launch Editor, says: "We were overwhelmed with the
number, and quality of entrants, for the competition to present the weather on
Birmingham TV.
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"Kimberley, Sharon, Andrew and Joy set the very highest standards, and we look
forward to having them work with us in the coming weeks."
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s local TV pilot began in December 2005 in six different areas of the
West Midlands: Birmingham, Black Country, Hereford and Worcester, Staffordshire,
Shropshire and Coventry and Warwickshire.
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The pilot will run for nine months to test out demand for a local television
news service.
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The pilot scheme uses the latest broadcasting technology to create
different kinds of local television news on broadband and digital satellite TV
and possibly soon on remote devices such as mobile phones.
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