Harold Mitchell becomes chairman of Sydney community television station TVS

Tim Burrowes

August 25, 2010 1:22

Media buyer Harold Mitchell has become chairman of Sydney’s community TV station TVS as the broadcaster attemtps to make the most of the potential larger audience available from it becoming available on Freeview.

Mitchell, boss of Mitchell Communications Group which is currently being sold to Aegis, was already a member of the TVS board.

Meanwhile, Rachel Bentley, a UWS media lecturer and associate head of the university’s school of communication arts, has been appointed TVS’s new CEO. Former CEO Laurie Patton left the organisation in April.

Bentley is executive producer of TVS’s Dare I Ask?, which is a joint production with Metro Screen.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Anonymous 25 Aug 10

There goes the neighborhood.

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