York TV

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York TV launched in the autumn of 2003 promising to provide a local TV service to the people of York. However the patchy coverage made it even harder to watch at the time than YSTV, which was quite an achievement.

A York TV car with their "distinctive" logo

At launch they expressed an interest in sharing news gathering facilities, and as such arranged a meeting with Station Director of the time [Dave Baker]]. They made a less than inspiring start by failing to turn up, and as such the idea was not proceeded with.

Those who could actually pick up the station reported a station screening the same episode of "Jimbo and the Jet Set" daily, text-in shows notably without texts and copious amounts of QVC.

Two years later, with YSTV's output now online for all to view, they again contacted the station with a view to broadcasting two shows - Learning Curves and Acoustic Treatment - to a "wider" audience (a debatable concept given the station's coverage). Did anything come of this?Unverified or incomplete information

At some point in 2005/2006 they rebranded as "York @ 54" (referring to their UHF channel). It has been said that YSTV produces more original content than them.

Their website is at www.york.tv.