Teesside TV

Teesside TV
Launched 30 March 2017
Owned by Local Television Limited
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
Audience share Local TV Macro Network:[Note 1]
0.01% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB)
Country United Kingdom
Broadcast area Middlesbrough and Teesside
Headquarters University of Sunderland
Sister channel(s) Birmingham TV
Bristol TV
Cardiff TV
Leeds TV
Liverpool TV
North Wales TV
Tyne & Wear TV
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 7
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 159

Teesside TV (formerly Made in Teesside) is a local television station serving Middlesbrough and Teesside and parts of County Durham. The station is owned and operated by Local Television Limited and forms part of a group of eight local TV stations.

The station's local offices are based in Middlesbrough.

History

In November 2013, the broadcast regulator OFCOM announced Made Television and Trinity Mirror had been awarded a licence to run a local TV service for the Middlesbrough and Teesside areas.[1] The licence had also been contested by a locally based group known as TeesVision.

The previous year, Made Television had also been awarded the licence for the Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland areas, which launched as Made in Tyne & Wear in November 2014.[2] There were three other bids for the licence - Neon TV, Metro8 Newcastle and YourTV Newcastle.

Made in Teesside began broadcasting on Freeview and Virgin Media platforms at 6pm on Thursday 30 March 2017. The station is run jointly with its sister Tyne and Wear station from studios at the University of Sunderland with production staff also based locally in Middlesbrough. In November 2017, studio production of daily news and magazine programmes was transferred to other Made TV stations.

On Thursday 25 May 2017, Made in Teesside and its sister channels began carrying acquired programming from the UK & Ireland version of factual entertainment channel TruTV as part of a supply agreement with Sony Pictures Television. The station simulcasts TruTV in two daily blocks from 1-5pm and from 9pm-1am (8pm - midnight on Tuesdays to accommodate America's Got Talent).[3][4] As of November 2017, the Made network simulcasts CBS Reality for eleven hours a day.

Programming

Teesside TV is required to broadcast 37 hours a week of first-run programming.[5]

As of February 2018, the station's sole local programme is North East Live, a rolling four-hour block of pre-recorded local news, sport and features airing each weeknight from 5-9pm. A half-hour regional block also airs on the generic Made Television networked feed on digital satellite each weekday evening at 7.30pm.[6]

Programmes produced by the other Local TV Ltd stations also air on the channel along with acquired programming from independent producers and other broadcasters around the UK, including the thrice-daily programming blocks from CBS Reality - airing from 9-11am, 1-5pm and 9pm-2am.

References

  1. ↑ Audience data for Local TV channels across England, Wales & N. Ireland are measured and reported together, as "Local TV Macro Network".
  1. ↑ Made Television and Trinity Mirror land Middlesbrough local TV licence, theguardian.com, 27 November 2013
  2. ↑ Made in Tyne and Wear awarded TV licence, Press Gazette, 6 December 2012
  3. ↑ Made Television reveals all-new summer line up, Made Television, 25 May 2017
  4. ↑ TruTV on Made, Made Television, 25 May 2017
  5. ↑ Teesside channel given greater flexibility over schedule, a516digital.com, 25 May 2017
  6. ↑ Made TV splits Sky and Freeview local TV feeds, a516digital.com, 4 January 2018
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.