York to get own TV station (again)

Ofcom has awarded licences to run local TV services in York and Middlesbrough on digital terrestrial TV (DTT).
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The awards follow legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences.

The channels will be broadcast on DTT by the local multiplex, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on DTT.

In York the licence was awarded to “The York Channel” Website: www.oneandother.com

York did have a Local TV station for a couple of years at the beginning of the last decade.

However there were reception and content problems and it didn’t last for long.
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