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By Ben Carrington, Bond University journalism student
Television studios are being set up in Market Square so local businesses and the community have a platform to create their own online broadcast channel.
Gold Coast Community Television have created the initiative and will use a secured online platform called Safe Worlds to launch the channels with less risk than the World Wide Web.
Safe Worlds software designer Alan Metcalfe said the new media platform, which is going live in less a month, will allow businesses and individuals to have their own television station.
”The Gold Coast as a whole needs to do more to aggressively promote itself to the world, that’s what Gold Coast Community Television is all about,” he said.
Varsity Lakes studio manager Louis Elliot said the community television service will help promote new businesses and events in a unique and cost effective way.
“The online channels will begin with sections including lifestyle, sports, science and technology and eventually move into individual businesses having their own channel,” she said.
“The Gold Coast has very few jobs in the media industry and that’s why we are loosing all of our local students domestically and internationally.”
Alan said the organisation had been in negotiations with Bond University and they have organised an internship program that will begin next semester.
“What is missing in the Gold Coast area is a way of moving Bond students, mostly media students, more effectively into the community and business,” he said.
"The internship program will help students understand the business model of Safe Worlds and once students are competent they can move out to start their own community service anywhere in the world.”
The station has already employed Bond Film and Television graduates to help set up the Varsity Lakes studios.
"Currently the Bond students that we have employed are doing really well and we look forward to educating numerous students in the years to come,” Alan said.
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