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Hello,

I hope you are enjoying summer and having a great time. I am enjoying my
summer, except for one thing, ls:tv needs help.

Your Student Television needs station your Help!

ls:tv at present, as you will know, owns it's own series of networked television
sets around our union. On this network we broadcast everyday we can during the
academic diary. Our network allows us total control in terms of, advertising,
length of broadcasts, live shows etc. All in all it is the perfect system for
ls:tv, and is our station's most important asset. However, all of this is in
jeopardy. Our union has been approached, and is now talking, with a company
called Sub TV.

Sub TV is a business who sets up its own series' of television networks in
student unions across the country. Its aim is to lend itself out to
advertisers and gain profit from the massive unique student market. They are
creating a monopoly in this area, and as such are already in many of the
leading university unions, including some with established student television
stations such as ls:tv.

If our union signs the 10 year contract with Sub TV, ls:tv will be changed
forever. We would lose our network, and as such will lose the freedom we have.
We would instead play out in a designated time slot on their network, leaving
us limited to how long we have on air, how much we can advertise, and could
subsequently lose the ability to broadcast live (an ability that is integral to
the shows we produce).

ls:tv is fighting this decision to bring in a company and a business to replace
the freedom we deserve. Our union's motto is 'Not for PROFIT just for
STUDENTS'. Therefore, we are asking for your help to remind the union of this.
You can help by simply emailing the societies officer John Schless at
socs@luu.leeds.ac.uk and say in your email that you support ls:tv, and that Sub
TV should not be allowed to come into our union. Preferably, it would be
brilliant for everyone to email at 5pm on Tuesday 20th of June, or around this
date. This is so that they recieve all our replies at once to make a bigger
statement. However, if this is not possible, please email whenever you can.

I hope you can help, and thankyou for reading this email.

Remember, socs@luu.leeds.ac.uk

Phillip Marriott
Leeds Student Television Station Manager
unilstv@leeds.ac.uk

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if theres still time left, u cud take the matter 2 union council in sept... argue ur case n well wot UC says goes, it gets embedded in union policy & the union can't break its own constitution

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