VETERAN television astronomer Patrick Moore took on a starring role when he switched on Blackburn College's new cable channel. Open Campus Television was the first educational TV channel to be launched in the country and offered six hours of programmes a day. It was transmitted from the college's media centre and staffed by media studies students.
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