LOCAL broadcaster Paul Moulton will present the case for the establishment of ManxTV at the first public meeting of the Positive Action Group in 2012.
He will outline The Case for ManxTV at the Manx Legion Club, Market Hill, Douglas, on Monday (January 30) at 7.30pm.
Mr Moulton, who has experience of working with local radio and latterly with ITV Granada, says he feels passionately that the Isle of Man deserves a local visual media outlet to broadcast on local island issues.
He said: ‘I frequently tune into news coverage in the Channel islands via satellite broadcast. There needs to be the same service here in the Isle of Man. Any TV coverage on island issues, in whatever form, would potentially give worldwide coverage of our way of life. I welcome this opportunity to explain my viewpoint to the Manx public.’
Also contributing to the PAG debate will be broadcaster Roger Watterson, former vice-chairman of the long gone Isle of Man Broadcasting Commission, and Graham Cregeen, MHK for Malew and Santon, who chaired last year’s Tynwald select committee on the television licence fee.
Admission to the event is free and open to all.