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There’s yet more bad news for the team behind One Plymouth TV.
Regular readers will remember we reported that the city’s very-own telly station had put back its start date from this month to sometime next year (click here to refresh your memory).
Now it appears the media business run by its founder has ceased trading.
Automatic TV And Media, based on the Hoe, has been officially wound up, and
is insolvent.
The firm, run by One Plymouth TV’s David Orton, specialised in corporate video and design and broadcast programming.
Philip White, operations manager at One Plymouth TV, told the Plymouth Herald that the channel was still holding talks with Sky and planned to start broadcasting early next year.
Mr White said he did not think the death of Automatic would impact on investor confidence in One Plymouth TV, and that the total amount owed was “small handfuls of thousands of pounds”, with Mr Orton the main creditor.
Plymouth’s Twofour may wish to disagree – it’s seeking the return of more than £10,000 owed for using its “services”. Oh dear.
We still have our fingers crossed for the One Plymouth project, especially given the wealth of talent poached from local schools, universities and colleges involved in the thing, but things aren’t looking good.
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