The National Youth Agency: Comment - Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative

24 March 2009 1 min read Andy Hopkinson

You know the common complaint "There's nothing on the telly." Hundreds of channels to choose from but nothing you want to watch, unless you like repeats of cookery programmes or a diet of ever increasing despair from the news channels as the jobless totals climb sky high whilst the economy collapses in the other direction. So you spend your evenings channel hopping and getting increasingly frustrated both with your choice of viewing and what you might be missing on the other side.

Well, I'm delighted to tell you there is now a real alternative. It's in the shape of the recently launched online Positive TV.

As its website says: "There is a huge amount happening in the world to excite and inspire viewers that never gets reported. Positive TV reports on people and events from around the globe that are helping to create and shape a positive future. Positive TV reports on what's breaking through rather than what's breaking down from a local and global perspective.

"Positive TV was created out of a passion to discover positive news from England and the wider world, to focus on the many wonderful and inspiring people, events, businesses and organisations creating positive change and working on real solutions."

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