37 Facts About That's TV

That's TV is a national television network in the United Kingdom, broadcasting via Sky, Freesat and Freeview.

That's TV started off as the owner of a number of local television licences in several conurbations, but even though regional news can still be found via these services, these channels simulacast the classic hits and television schedule of the national That's TV channel for most of the day.

In September 2012, the broadcast regulator Ofcom announced That's TV had been awarded a licence to broadcast local TV service for Oxfordshire.

That's TV Solent began broadcasting on 26 November 2014 while a soft launch of That's TV Oxford took place on 17 April 2015.

That's TV took a controlling stake in YourTV in March 2015 with the licences subsequently re-awarded.

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In October 2016, it was announced That's TV had bought the licence for the York local TV service, formerly held by 'Hello York'.

On 2 January 2017, five That's TV stations started to simulcast Talking Pictures TV for six hours each day.

In May 2018, That's TV agreed to acquire the assets of STV's STV2 channel launching on the 15th of October.

In July 2019, That's TV announced the closure of 13 of its 20 studios in order to downsize to seven regional production centres producing content for its 20 local stations.

On 11 October 2021, That's TV Gold launched on Freesat, broadcasting 24 hours per day on channel 178.

On 4 January 2022, That's TV dropped the word Gold from its national channel branding when it changed back from its Christmas schedule, even though it was still licensed under the name of That's TV Gold at Ofcom.

On 30 June 2022, the national That's TV channel received increased coverage on Freeview after it moved into FreeSports slot on channel 65 as the sports channel stopped broadcasting on Freeview.

On 24 August 2022, That's TV increased its national operating hours on Freeview channel 65 by reducing their timeshare channel Classic Hits' music video schedule to 4am-7am in the UK.

On 12 November 2020 That's TV became That's Christmas and mixed up its music programming, so that Christmas hits would be played alongside 'party classics' from the 70s, 80s or 90s .

In November 2020, the newly rebranded That's TV Christmas was still showing TJC - The Jewellery Channel in the mornings, before broadcasting the "Retro Disco Christmas Party" the rest of the day with local news reduced to a 10-minute slot at 6 pm.

That's TV announced an agreement with STV to show all 1,516 episodes of Take the High Road from 2021.

In 2021, That's TV started to show music from the 1960s 'non-stop' each weekend, starting on Valentine's Day weekend with 48 hours of 60s music played back-to-back without adverts.

In October 2021, That's TV started to show Thames TV's early 1990s compilations of The Best of Tommy Cooper, which were previously shown on UKTV's Yesterday channel and the BAFTA-winning The Kenny Everett Video Show, a programme from 1978 which mixed music performances by people like Bryan Ferry with dance routines and comedy sketches.

On 18 November 2021, That's TV Gold rebranded for the festival period as That's TV Christmas and launched its Xmas schedule with repeats of The Benny Hill Show.

In 2022, That's TV licensed the rights to classic 1980s children's TV series Press Gang, written by Steven Moffatt and starring Julia Sawalha, Lucy Benjamin and Dexter Fletcher in early roles.

In June 2018, BuzzFeed revealed how That's TV had "gamed" the BBC's subsidy system to claim hundreds of thousands of pounds of licence fee payers' money, by submitting low-quality local news footage to the BBC, which under the system would pay £147.

McEwan wrote an investigative article for Private Eye magazine in March 2019 where he revealed that That's TV was refusing to tell the public where stations were broadcasting from.

The report explained that That's TV deleted the addresses for its stations across the UK and replaced them with one contact address in a Lancashire business park.

In May 2019, McEwan's investigations found that That's TV wanted to abandon the local communities it is publicly funded to serve.

Unpaid interns working for That's TV are reported to have "passed out through exhaustion".

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That's TV must adhere to the code as a supplier of video stories to the BBC.

That's TV Solent was one of nine licences that Ofcom believed had a studio in the licensed area.

That's TV was allowed to operate from seven regional studios, as predicted by McEwan in his previous report.

For example, That's TV Solent was now included within a "South of England" hub and would be broadcast from That's TV Salisbury's studio in Salisbury along with the stations for Basingstoke, Guildford, Oxford and Reading.

Former That's TV Scotland freelancers said there was a lack of premises in Scotland, meaning there were not "20 physical premises" for each of the 20 licences.

In 2021, Ofcom agreed to the request from That's TV to reduce the number of production bases it has in regards to its newsgathering with some local news items to be produced outside the broadcast areas the company holds the licence for.

That's TV did not inform broadcast regulator Ofcom about the station's change of address; the QMC address was still displayed on Ofcom's website months after the station left QMC.

Freedom of Information reply from Highbury College disclosed that That's TV Solent left the college in November 2018 by "mutual consent", but did not elaborate further.

The letter showed that That's TV rented premises at Highbury for free during its entire four-year contract.

That's TV had agreed to offer training opportunities to Highbury students in return for the studio and office space, but former That's Solent employees previously said That's TV was not benefiting Highbury students' education.

In spring 2022, That's TV acquired additional space on the limited reach COM7 Freeview multiplex and decided to launch a 24-hour music channel called That's TV Music.

On 24 August 2022, That's TV reduced the hours of Classic Hits on Freeview to three hours a night, so they could run their main entertainment channel until 4am.