Editoria e Media
That's Christmas channel to launch on Freeview in over 5 million UK homes
According to the official BARB audience ratings, That's TV attracted over four million viewers in October 2020 – its highest ever reach – cementing its position as the UK's number 1 music-based channel. That's Christmas will continue to bring audiences their fix of retro hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s alongside That's TV's award-winning local news and information service on weekdays.
The That's TV network is part of That's Media, the UK's largest operator of local TV services. The company now operates 20 of the 34 local Freeview licences granted by Ofcom and reaches over five million homes in Scotland , South Wales , North West England , Yorkshire & Humber, East Anglia and the South of England . That's TV is operating a model designed to deliver local TV news on weeknights alongside a network programming 'spine' comprising of music and nostalgic TV.
That's TV's Chief Executive, Dan Cass , commented:
That's Christmas is available in 20 metro regions of the UK and surrounding areas and will broadcast on Freeview channel number 7 or 8 (channel 7 in most of England , channel 8 in Scotland , South Wales , Cumbria and York ), until 5 January 2021 .
That's Christmas will be available in areas including England across Manchester , Cumbria , Lancashire , York , North Yorkshire , Humber, East and West Anglia, Oxfordshire , Berkshire , Surrey , Hampshire , Solent and Salisbury . In Scotland including Ayr, Glasgow , Edinburgh , Dundee and Aberdeen , and also South Wales in Swansea Bay.
As part of its new season of music and nostalgia for 2021, That's TV has acquired the rights to show all 1,516 episodes of Take High The High Road, the soap made by Scottish TV from 1980 to 2003.