Ofcom | Northern Ireland local TV station launches
The Belfast-based channel broadcasts on Freeview channel 8 and Virgin channel 159.
NvTv describes its programming as a mix of local news, current affairs, arts, culture, music and heritage.
NvTv is the eighth local TV station to take the air and follows on from last week's launch of .
Local TV
Ofcom is responsible for licensing local TV stations on digital terrestrial TV and has now issued 30 licences across the UK.
A second phase of licensing is already under way and there is continued interest from potential applicants in launching channels.
In July, Ofcom invited applications for new local TV channels in seven areas - Aberdeen, Ayr, Carlisle, Dundee, Forth Valley, Inverness and Stoke on Trent.
Local TV licences awarded so far:
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The Belfast-based channel broadcasts on Freeview channel 8 and Virgin channel 159.
NvTv describes its programming as a mix of local news, current affairs, arts, culture, music and heritage.
NvTv is the eighth local TV station to take the air and follows on from last week's launch of .
Local TV
Ofcom is responsible for licensing local TV stations on digital terrestrial TV and has now issued 30 licences across the UK.
A second phase of licensing is already under way and there is continued interest from potential applicants in launching channels.
In July, Ofcom invited applications for new local TV channels in seven areas - Aberdeen, Ayr, Carlisle, Dundee, Forth Valley, Inverness and Stoke on Trent.
Local TV licences awarded so far:
| Basingstoke: That's Basingstoke | Guildford: That's Surrey | Nottingham: Notts TV |
| Belfast: NvTv | Leeds: Made in Leeds | Oxford: That's Oxford |
| Birmingham: City TV Broadcasting | Liverpool: Bay TV Liverpool | Preston: YourTV Blackpool & Preston |
| Brighton & Hove: Latest TV | London: London Live | Reading: That's Reading |
| Bristol: Made in Bristol | Manchester: YourTV Manchester | Salisbury: That's Salisbury |
| Cambridge: Cambridge Presents | Maidstone: KMTV | Scarborough: Yorkshire Coast TV |
| Cardiff: Made in Cardiff | Middlesbrough: Made in Teesside | Sheffield: SLTV/Sheffield Live |
| Edinburgh: ETV | Mold: Bay TV Clwyd | Southampton: That's Solent |
| Glasgow: GTV | Newcastle: Made in Tyne and Wear | Swansea: Bay TV Swansea |
| Grimsby: Estuary TV | Norwich: Mustard | York: The York Channel |