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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：地方电视台节目更精彩 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习：地方电视台节目更精彩 GRE考试精品课程训练  FOR more than a decade staff and media students at the Grimsby Institute, a college in Lincolnshire, have broadcast worthy programmes to a smattering of nearby cable TV subscribers. In November their audience quadrupled. With a new name—Estuary TV—and a prominent spot on Free view, a free digital television platform, their news and discussion shows now reach 350,000 homes around the Humber. A station long propped up by grants and donations is courting advertisers.  十多年来，林肯郡格里姆斯比学院的一些员工和传媒专业的学生，一直为附近零星几户有线电视用户播报有价值的节目。11月，他们的听众翻了两番，而且名字改成了河口电视，同时还在免费数字电视平台Free view上占据了显要位置，现在亨伯河附近收看他们新闻和讨论节目的用户达到了35万家。一个昔日需要靠补助金和捐款苦苦支撑的电视台现在居然可以招商引资了。  Estuary TV is the first of 19 television stations launching in Britains towns and cities over the next year—the fruits of a plan laid out in 2010 by Jeremy Hunt, then the culture secretary, to revitalize local media. Ministers hope they will help promote small businesses, train new creative talent and generally make people more civic-minded. London will get a station in March, Birmingham in the summer. Of com, the television regulator plans to license about 30 more.  河口电视是19家电视台中第 一个登陆英国乡镇的电视台，下一年的目标是城市，2010年文化部长亨特为了复兴地方传媒业而制定了此计划，现在的发展就是计划结出的果实。部长希望这个举措可以带动小型企业，培训新兴有创意的人才，并且逐步让人们变的越来越热心公益。明年3月，伦敦就会新增一电台，而伯明翰在明年夏天也会跟随其脚步。电视总局英国通讯部计划，明年会再批准成立30余电视台。  High costs and low positions on on-screen TV channel guides have killed previous efforts to launch local services. So the government has tilted the market to help them. In England and Northern Ireland local television will air on Free view channel eight, a coveted slot. A single operations centre in Birmingham, set up with ￡25m($41m) from the television license fee, will keep them on air. Over three years the BBC will dole out a further ￡15mto the stations, in exchange for local footage that can be used in its own news reports.  屏幕上电视的高成本、低地位，使先前许多开展