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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">Press Release</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">Belfast’s Local Television Channel, NVTV, launches.</span></b></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">Belfast’s local television channel, NVTV, begins broadcasting today, Monday September 29^th, via Freeview channel 8 and Virgin Media Cable 159.</span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">NVTV, which has a twelve-year licence, will broadcast local news, current affairs, documentaries, arts and culture, music, local history, business and sports.</span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><br></span></i></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">“We believe the channel can provide great opportunities for local people, groups, business and civic organisations to engage with a local audience”,</span></i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">  <font color="rgb(0, 0, 238)"><u></u></font>explained Simon Wood, Chairperson of Northern Visions, <i>“it is a broad agenda covering local issues, debates, community activities, culture and history. We will also be broadcasting relevant content from other Local TV and community channels in the UK and Ireland”.</i></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">NVTV is broadcasting to over 215,000 households in the Greater Belfast area. It is a not-for-profit venture run for public and community benefit. </span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">It will begin broadcasting from 6pm – 11pm seven days a week and plans to go on earlier in the day as the station develops.</span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">Further information is available at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nvtv.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri">www.nvtv.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><div><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div>
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