City stations ‘Made in…’ to move on Freeview
City TV stations for Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and the North East are to move slots on the Freeview service following the departure of BBC Three as a television station.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for the Made Television channels. We’ve enjoyed excellent audience figures since launching the four stations at the end of 2014, with over 1.8 million tuning in across the network each month. These new channel positions will be see us placed directly between ITV2 and BBC4 which is really exciting.” – Jamie Conway, Founder and CEO of Made Television
Made in Bristol, Made in Leeds and Made in Tyne & Wear TV will move to channel 7 from the current channel 8 position and Made in Cardiff will move to channel 8 following the move from channel 23. Some Freeview viewers will be required to retune in their receiver box on April 5th to see the new channel listings.
The Made in Bristol, Made in Leeds and Made in Tyne & Wear channels will continue to be available on Sky Guide 117 and Virgin 159, and Made in Cardiff available on Sky Guide 123 and Virgin 159.
“With dedicated local programming every day, including news, magazine and sports shows, here at Made TV we’re incredibly passionate about broadcasting relevant, interesting and engaging content to local people. This month alone has seen us broadcast live the inaugural Bristol Lifestyle Awards honouring the best of Bristol’s lifestyle businesses, as voted by the public;and local school children take over the news programme, ‘Bulletin‘ in Tyne & Wear. With this new channel move, I’m confident even more people will be able to enjoy their city channel. ” – Jamie Conway, Founder and CEO of Made Television
The changes take effect from Tuesday the 5th of April when Made Television’s four city channels will move up the Freeview TV listings.
