Launched 15 October 2014 Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV) Broadcast area Cardiff | Owned by Made Television Country United Kingdom | |
Audience share Local TV Macro Network:
0.01% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB) | ||
Made in Cardiff is a local television station serving Cardiff and surrounding areas. The station is owned and operated by Made Television Ltd and forms part of a group of six city-based TV stations. It broadcasts from studios and offices at Elgin House on St Mary's Street in Cardiff city centre.
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Overview
In September 2012, the broadcast regulator OFCOM announced Made Television had been awarded a licence to broadcast the local TV service for the Cardiff area, serving a potential audience of 800,000 viewers, stretching from Merthyr Tydfil in the north to Bridgend in the west and Newport in the east. The licence was also contested by 'Cardiff Local TV', a group set up by the locally-based technology firm Cube Interactive.
Previously, a low-powered RSL station, Capital TV, broadcast to the Cardiff area from 2002 to 2009, when analogue transmissions ceased from the Wenvoe transmitter.
The station began broadcasting on Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media platforms at 8pm on Wednesday 15 October 2014, a week after the launch of sister station Made in Bristol. After three months on air, Made in Cardiff claimed a weekly audience of 104,000 viewers.
Since August 2015, the station has also been streaming live online via its website. On 5 April 2016, Made in Cardiff moved from Freeview channel 23 to Freeview channel 8.
As of April 2016, Made in Cardiff's station manager is Daniel Glyn. Made TV's Cardiff and Bristol stations also share a regional managing director, Chris James.
In July 2016, the channel reported it claimed a weekly audience of 160,000 viewers, including nearly 100,000 for its evening news programmes and 70,000 for the nightly magazine show The Lowdown.
In February 2017, a revamp of the station's local output led to the launch of a flagship two-hour live magazine show on weeknights, The Crunch Cardiff, incorporating news, sport, current affairs and entertainment.
Programming
Made in Cardiff is required to broadcast 37 hours a week of first-run local programming.
The station's flagship programme is the live magazine programme, The Crunch Cardiff, airing each weeknight from 6-8pm and incorporating local #CardiffNews updates, sports coverage, current affairs (Crunch the Week) and entertainment features.
Other local non-news programmes produced by the channel include documentary series Streets of Cardiff, weekly Cardiff News review compilations and Cardiff City magazine show The Crunch: Bluebirds. Programmes produced by the other Made TV stations in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool and Tyne & Wear also air on the channel along with acquired programming from other broadcasters, including local TV stations around the UK.