Sheffield Cablevision Ident

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