{"id":3706,"date":"2011-07-01T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2011-07-01T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:47:23","slug":"a-modern-21st-century-digital-network-for-scotland-or-a-tired-clichd-tv-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/a-modern-21st-century-digital-network-for-scotland-or-a-tired-clichd-tv-station\/","title":{"rendered":"A modern 21st century digital network for Scotland, or a tired clich&eacute;d TV station?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Iain Hepburn&#8217;s] manifesto for <a href=\"http:\/\/iainmhepburn.com\/2011\/07\/01\/how-about-a-real-digital-network-for-scotland\/\">a truly digital network for Scotland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dump the plans for a new state broadcaster. <\/p>\n<p>Take the money earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to provide a free baseline 3MB broadband service and router for every home in Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>Take the bandwidth earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to launch a cross-platform interactive Scotland channel.&#160; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Run a wee TV station, or make a huge difference to the life of many in Scotland, empowering them with tools, access and content not filtered by a handful of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh? Count me in for the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Iain Hepburn&#8217;s] manifesto for a truly digital network for Scotland: Dump the plans for a new state broadcaster. Take the money earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to provide a free baseline 3MB broadband service and router for every home in Scotland. Take the bandwidth earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to launch a cross-platform interactive Scotland channel.&#160; Run a wee TV station, or make a huge difference to the life of many in Scotland, empowering them with tools, access and content not filtered by a handful of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh? Count me in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576,52],"tags":[2444,2442,2443,2445],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","category-web-2point0","tag-access","tag-iain-hepburn","tag-scottish-network","tag-sdn","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-XM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}