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Wellingborough Cablevision was a
cable television Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with broa ...
broadcaster that operated in the
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area of
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, during a period of experimental licensing of cable
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in the 1970s. It was run by a consortium of local businesses and existed for exactly a year to 24 March 1975.


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