Limited progress on getting WINOL streamed live around campus

I have been in contact with Chloe Battle ( part of the Design team for University of Winchester) since the start of the semester. This is because I was hoping to organise with her a way in which the WINOL bulletin can be shown live at 5 on the TV screens around uni. It seems that I have hit a brick wall as although at the start of the semester Chloe was optimistic about the possibility of linking the bulletin to the TV screens, I have since received this email pasted below:

 

" Hi Shona

I didn’t say that we would have it working by the end of November, I said that we might have time to investigate the possibility further.

I have had a conversation with the head of Marketing (cc’d) meanwhile, and her concerns are that a) there is not any sound available on the screens, so nobody watching would be able to hear the broadcast (the screens are not intended for someone to stand in front of for 5/10/15 minutes at a time), and b) if we schedule the screens to switch over to an internet/TV feed at 5 o’clock, and the broadcast was late (which it sometimes is) there would be a period of time when there would be nothing but a black box showing… which just isn’t acceptable. If we were to consider adding the Winol bulletin we would need to be assured that the bulletin would go live at 5 without fail, and run to a standard length (15 mins?) as we have to set the schedule in the plasma screen master box to switch function at exact times, there can be no variation from week to week.

Therefore at this point in time I’m afraid we just don’t think it is feasible to make the live link to the Winol bulletin. I hope that you understand.

Regards, Chloe"

 

This is a disappointing setback as linking the WINOL bulletin to the TV screens around our campus is the obvious way to obtain a larger/ wider audience from our fellow students which I believe is still a potential audience that we are missing. It isn't all doom and gloom though, as a still image advert is still being shown on the TV screens for the WINOL bulletin and also the WINOL website.