David Crossley

I was the person who started York Student TV in November 1967. Initially it was a combined film/TV production outfit called "York University Tele-Film Productions" - a clumsy name which lasted less than a year and bit the dust when the film part was separated off into a separate student society.

The original idea came from a lecturer in the Education Department at York whose name I now forget. I was a Biology and Education student who was peripherally involved in student filmmaking that was then part of the student Drama Society. The Education Department had just acquired some early video equipment, together with three technical guys to run it and essentially didn't know what to so with it. The lecturer suggested to me that I should start a student TV society to make use of the equipment and the whole thing went from there.

I now live in Australia (Sydney) and have done for 40 years - I came here after graduating from York - where I run my own consultancy company providing advice on energy and environmental policy and programs. I do come to the UK about once a year to visit my father (who's now 91) and my sister who live south of Manchester. It's possible that I could come to York during one of these visits if anybody would be interested in talking with me. I'd certainly be interested to see where YSTV has got to 40 years later.