Ofcom awards TV licences for Maidstone and Basingstoke

From a press release to news@media.info
Posted 30 July 2014, 8.31am edt

Ofcom has today awarded licences to run local TV services in Maidstone and Basingstoke on digital terrestrial TV (DTT). The licences are awarded to KMTV and That’s Basingstoke Limited.

Ofcom has now awarded 30 local TV licences, as well as the multiplex licence. The first local TV channel began broadcasting on DTT in Grimsby on 26 November 2013.

In September 2013, Ofcom started the current phase of local TV licensing across the UK, including Maidstone and Basingstoke.

Statements setting out the main reasons for the award of these local TV licences are published on the Ofcom website.