Harold Mitchell becomes chairman of Sydney community television station TVS
Media buyer Harold Mitchell has become chairman of Sydney’s community TV station TVS as the broadcaster attemtps to make the most of the potential larger audience available from it becoming available on Freeview.
Mitchell, boss of Mitchell Communications Group which is currently being sold to Aegis, was already a member of the TVS board.
Meanwhile, Rachel Bentley, a UWS media lecturer and associate head of the university’s school of communication arts, has been appointed TVS’s new CEO. Former CEO Laurie Patton left the organisation in April.
Bentley is executive producer of TVS’s Dare I Ask?, which is a joint production with Metro Screen.
Bentley said: “TVS has the potential to become the hub of Sydney’s creative talent, and I will be using my experience in training and guiding video producers and presenters to help build a new brand of television that isn’t being broadcast on the free to air stations. Programs like Dare I Ask? represent the growing professionalism of community television, and show that TVS is the natural home of risky, cutting edge television.”
TVS is produced from UWS’s Penrith campus, and is found in the Sydney area on on Digital Channel 44. Ad sales for the station are done by Stenmark.
Mitchell is on the boards of several community organisations. He is also understand to hold a long term ambition to be chairman of the ABC.
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