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| Headquarters | Grimsby Institute, Nuns Corner, Grimsby, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire |
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| Owner | Community Interest Company |
Channel 7 is a local television station based in the United Kingdom.
Coverage
Channel 7 is the UK's longest running local television station and reaches approximately 140,000 homes in North and North East Lincolnshire on Virgin Media's digital television network channel 879.[1]
Channel 7 is licenced with Ofcom.[2]
History
Channel 7 was originally set up in Immingham's Immage 2000 Studios in 1996 by Mark Fenty for the local community to showcase their talent and for information about local area and its events. The studios were officially opened in 1997 by Lord Puttnam.[3]
The channel was purchased by the Grimsby Institute in 2001 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the further and higher education college.
Channel 7 officially launched in January 1998 and is situated at the Grimsby Institute's main campus at Nuns' Corner. Prior to that it was situated at the Immingham Resource Centre, in the south part of Immingham, opposite Eastfield Junior and Infants school.
In 2009, Channel 7 was moved from Channel 107 to 879 as part of the Digital Switchover and broadcasts from the Great Coates head-end in the Grimsby region.
On 12 September 2012, Ofcom announced that Channel 7 had been awarded the licence to operate a local TV channel for the Grimsby area.[4] The channel is expected to begin broadcasting from the Belmont transmitting station sometime in 2013 under the name Lincolnshire Living and will be available on Freeview channel 8.
Programmes
Featured Programmes on Seven are:
- Lincolnshire Living
- Fit Family Food
- Street Beat
- Lingard's Lincolnshire Rambles
- Ernie's Pitstop
- Voxx
Other programmes that have appeared on Seven include:
- Start the Day with Chris McRae
- Lets Go Fishing
- Scene on Seven
- The Market Place
- Soundbite
- Joe Frater's Professional Boxing
- Paul's Watercolour World
- Artist Tea
- Chi
- Fast Slug
- In Focus
- Lincolnshire Hotpot
- Viewpoint
- Young, Gifted and Green
- Faces And Places
- Nunny TV
Presenters
Many celebrities have presented programmes on Seven. Most notably:
- Julie Peasgood (Brookside, Emmerdale)
- Keeley Donovan (BBC Look North Weather Presenter who trained at Channel 7)
- Gary Williams (celebrated swing singer [1])
- Leanne Brown (BBC Look North)
Other faces you may see from time to time include:
- Chris McRae ( The first face seen on Channel Seven - Soundbite - and a regular presenter)Joined before airing and instrumental in Programming.
- Emma Lingard (Emma has been on Channel 7 since it started in 1998)
- Hugh Riches
- Emma Turner
Past presenters include:
- Stuart Allen
- Rob Dabb
- Michelle Portess
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Former Channel 7 logo used until 2009.
References and notes
- ^ "What is Channel Seven?". Grimsby Institute.
- ^ Ofcom licence
- ^ "Sir David Puttnam opens Immage Studios". Borderlines Film Festival.
- ^ "Ofcom awards first local TV licences". Ofcom. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
External links
- Official website
- Turning Point Television - the makers of 'In Focus'
- Focus 7 - the makers of 'Young, Gifted and Green'
- Immingham Resource Centre[dead link]
- Immage Studios
- Nunny TV