Made in Television, the local TV group led by Top Up TV co-founder Ian West, has won the local television licence for Leeds.
Ofcom has handed a 12-year licence to Made in Leeds, and the station will launch on Freeview in late 2013 and serve around 840,000 homes in the Leeds area on digital terrestrial television.
In a post on the @madeinleeds Twitter page, the station wrote: "Leeds! We Made it!"
Made in Leeds will go live in November 2013, airing on Freeview channel 8, but also on Virgin Media, giving the network a potential audience reach of over 1.1 million people across Leeds and the wider region, including Wakefield, Dewsbury, Halifax and Huddersfield.
The station will broadcast "an eclectic array of new shows", including local news and current affairs, along with programmes on arts and culture, entertainment, music, sport, property and cookery.
Jobs will be created at Made in Leeds, including for journalists, producers,...
Ofcom has handed a 12-year licence to Made in Leeds, and the station will launch on Freeview in late 2013 and serve around 840,000 homes in the Leeds area on digital terrestrial television.
In a post on the @madeinleeds Twitter page, the station wrote: "Leeds! We Made it!"
Made in Leeds will go live in November 2013, airing on Freeview channel 8, but also on Virgin Media, giving the network a potential audience reach of over 1.1 million people across Leeds and the wider region, including Wakefield, Dewsbury, Halifax and Huddersfield.
The station will broadcast "an eclectic array of new shows", including local news and current affairs, along with programmes on arts and culture, entertainment, music, sport, property and cookery.
Jobs will be created at Made in Leeds, including for journalists, producers,...
- 2/15/2013
- Digital Spy
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