That's Swansea Bay is a local television station which broadcasts to

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via the

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. The station went on air in July 2016 making it the second local television station in Wales after

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. Bay TV Swansea is based near the

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's primary campus in Swansea. It was the 21st local television channel to be launched in the United Kingdom. The channel provides news, sport and entertainment programming to viewers on all major television platforms and provides some of its output without charge to the

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. Bay TV Swansea was awarded its broadcasting licence from the Office of Communications (Ofcom) in January 2014. Programmes include shared series with other local TV channels and the syndicated series ''Walks Around Britain''.

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British companies established in 2016 Companies based in Swansea Local television channels in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 2016 Television channels in Wales That's TV {{UK-tv-channel-stub