The local public broadcast station is asking the city for funding to help launch a new channel called Voyager with 24-hour, seven-days-a-week programming.
Paul Grove, president and CEO of WTCI-TV Channel 45, addressed Chattanooga City Council members this morning and spoke about the proposed project.
The station asked for $250,000 from the city in the 2012-2013 fiscal year budget.
“We believe this is what public television is supposed to do,” he said, “create a dialogue.”
He said the new channel would focus only on local issues such as the Gig City project, gangs and politics.
For complete details, read tomorrow’s Times Free Press.
Cliff has worked for the Times Free Press for five years and covers Chattanooga city government. He previously covered Rhea County, as well as transportation and growth and development in Southeast Tennessee. A native of Maryville, Tenn., Cliff graduated in 2003 from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis on journalism. Before coming to Chattanooga, he was a crime reporter with Hernando Today, a supplement of The Tampa (Fla.) ...
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