[Community Television] Community Channel gets breakfast slot

[Michelle McGuire]

Community Channel gets breakfast slot
03 September 2004 10:32

The Community Channel is to begin broadcasting in a prime breakfast 
slot on Freeview for the first time after being bumped up from its 
previous night-time graveyard shift.

The channel, which screens programmes from broadcasters, charities and 
community groups, will begin airing three hours of more populist shows 
between 6am and 9am on channel 46 from 6 September.

Among those featured will be the Fiona Phillips-fronted Soap Life, 
which looks at social issues covered by soaps; Friends for a Year, 
about care-leavers finding their way in the world and the BBC’s 
Restoration spin-off You Make it Happen.

The channel, which is owned by the Media Trust and is the only UK-wide 
not-for-profit station, currently airs between 2.45am and 5.45am on the 
BBC’s part of Freeview. It is also given free carriage on Sky and 
Telewest, where it broadcasts 24 hours a day. It airs between 10am and 
4pm on NTL.

  Source: broadcastnow.co.uk