New city TV channel to air next year
THE team behind a new television channel for Sheffield are hoping to reach up to 400,000 people with their programmes after being awarded a licence to broadcast.
Sheffield Local Television, or SLTV, was told yesterday by communications regulator Ofcom that it had won a competition to run a channel which will focus on the city.
Steve Buckley, chairman of the social enterprise company which will run the station, said there were ambitious plans for output with a hope to start broadcasting by the end of 2013.
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Hide AdHe added: “This is completely new territory but we have done a lot of research. We will be providing four hours a day of original local content, including news, cultural programming, entertainment and music.”
The channel which will carry local advertising, employ a “core team” of broadcasting professionals and recruit around 80 volunteers to help.