Channel 7 North East Lincolnshire UK

http://www.channel7tv.co.uk/

Seven is the longest running local TV channel in the UK. It is a community interest company (social enterprise) that works closely with the local community to deliver television made by and for local people. Seven launched in January 1998 and broadcasts from Immage Studios in Immingham on to the Virgin cable network, channel 879, and reaches 140,000 people across North and North East Lincolnshire. The channel has developed links with public and private sector companies and works closely with the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education to provide broadcast media work placements and training opportunities for students and local people.

Immage Studios is a state-of-the art production centre and hub of creative TV, broadcast technology and new media innovation. The studios are a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education and house a 2,700 square foot broadcast TV studio with full production support, HD edit suites and a digital broadcast transmission facility. The studio building is home to Seven local TV and outputs over 3,500 hours of broadcast programming a year to the Virgin Media cable platform and online.

The Immage Studios Ltd production company offers services to organisations providing media training, studio hire, and a digital broadcast consultancy, commercial TV production and broadcast programming. The production company has a host of top corporate clients and has produced TV commercials, training and safety videos, e-learning packages, promotional videos and broadcast programmes.