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4 February – Thorn EMI sells its stake in Swindon Cable to British Telecom and the new owners axe Focus on Swindon and other local programming and replaces it with bought-in content. 1987. No events. 1988. Swindon Cable's TV channel is relaunched as Swindon's Local Channel. This sees the return to the service of local news, sport and one-off ...
The roots of cable TV in Swindon go back to 1928, when a company called Radio Relay transmitted two audio channels on a wire that ran around the town to a relatively small number of homes. Since radio sets were not freely available and some houses did not have electricity, this was the answer to the new radio invention – a loudspeaker on the ...
Swindon cable's TV channel is relaunched as Swindon's Local Channel. This sees the return to the service of local news, sport and one-off documentaries. 1989. 5 February – Satellite television service Sky Television launches. The new channels – Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport – are carried on cable. 1990
BBC News Arabic: Arabic news channel available in the Arab World. Operated by BBC World Service. BBC News Persian: Persian news channel available in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Operated by BBC World Service. BBC America: United States, a mixture of comedy, drama and lifestyle programming. Joint venture between BBC Studios Channels ...
ITV News West Country is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country. It is broadcast from studios in Brislington, Bristol, with district reporters and camera crews based in newsrooms at Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Taunton, Swindon and Gloucester. The programme currently transmits into two sub-regions.
Grampian TV [note 3] Central Scotland 31 August 1957 Scottish Television / STV Scottish Television Scottish TV [note 3] Northern Ireland: 31 October 1959 Ulster Television: UTV: Channel Islands: 1 September 1962 [33] Channel Television: Channel Television / CTV CTV Channel North East England: 15 January 1959 [34] Tyne Tees Television: TTTV ...
GRT-5 News Channel China: Guangdong Radio and Television: Chinese (Standard Chinese and Cantonese) GXTV-6 News Channel China: Guangxi Radio and Television Chinese and Zhuang: HainanTV-5 News Channel China: Hainan Broadcasting Group: Chinese: HBTV Public & News Channel China: Hubei Radio & Television Station: Chinese: HLJTV-5 News & Legal ...
Temporary channel for the 2012 French Open and 2012 Summer Olympics. [202] — — 595 — Praise TV Destiny Broadcasting Network Europe Limited 2012-08-13 Licence revoked by Ofcom. [203] 62 — — — TV Stars Cellcast Group 2012-08-14 Failed to launch. 90 — — — TV News Cellcast Group 2012-08-14 Failed to launch. — — 198 — Sumo TV ...