Following the Independence Referendum coverage by the BBC, there have been calls for a new Scottish broadcaster who will fairly report on political affairs.

Cargo Publishing MD, Mark Buckland, and writer Karyn Dougan have set up a crowd-funding page for ‘Freedom TV’, with the hopes of raising £6000 over the coming weeks:

It has been very clear in particular over the last year that the BBC’s news coverage is not only poor in quality, it is incredibly biased. We have all witnessed this. We have sat in front of our screens and watched the truth being twisted beyond recognition. This is why so many of us have cancelled our TV licences. Countless newspapers all at the beck and call of the editors in London, offering an inaccurate version of the current affairs happening in our country.

Enough is enough.

Freedom TV is the alternative broadcaster that Scotland so desperately needs; an internet TV channel that actually tells what’s going on. Covering current affairs, culture, grassroots activism involving people from all over Scotland and putting the media directly into the hands of Scots – Freedom TV offers open, fair, unbiased news coverage on Scottish affairs.

We have a crew already in place that has over 30 years of TV experience and multiple BAFTA Award winners among them. (Due to their day jobs within the media, we cannot reveal the names of those involved at this moment, for the risk of compromising their jobs. We hope you can understand this.)

We have big name guests and inspiring people signed up for recording the first shows in a few weeks,  interviewing artists, politicians, musicians, businessmen, journalists and we’re speaking to some of the alternative media groups you’ll be familiar with to get them involved – but this is not what this campaign is all about. We want to give the people of Scotland a voice.

We will be releasing an application process to put forward your idea for the TV shows you’d like to create. We’ll whittle these down to five and shoot these as pilot shows; our audience will then decide which go on to be regular shows. In this way it is YOU choosing what you want, instead watching what the current media think you SHOULD be watching. This will be at no cost to the creators who will be free to use our facilities. Freedom TV will be a platform for everyone to have their say. We want all of our voices to be heard.

To find out more, and donate to Freedom TV, visit Indiegogo.