Sheffield Cablevision started broadcasting on August 29th 1973 and ceased on January 2nd 1977. After it closed the old ITV company ATV in Birmingham began transmitting on that channel.
Sheffield Cablevision Ident1975
In the Sheffield area, for several years, a local company offered cable TV subscribers an experimental public access channel . Sheffield Cablevision - the community cable television experiment began operations on the British Relay network at Sheffield, Yorkshire. For about 2 hours every night 8 to 10 the channel transmitted community TV - shows made by the public with help from a professional staff of six. It all ended in 1977, despite good local viewing figures, politics and the costs were to blame
