TeleG

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TeleG was established as the first daily digital Gaelic TV channel in Scotland on 31 October 1999, and was available on the Freeview platform until 23 May 2011. The channel was based in Stornoway. Programs were transmitted on TeleG between 6 pm and 7 pm each day. The channel slot was shared with the CITV channel (which broadcast from 6 am to 6 pm) and ITV2 +1 (which broadcast from 7 pm to 6 am). The Broadcasting Act of 1996 required that programs aired would be repeats transmitted on analogue channels (many of which are first shown outside peak hours) between 6pm and 10:30pm. The Communications Act 2003 created the Gaelic Media Service which decides on the future development of Gaelic Broadcasting services. The broadcaster and service provider of TeleG was SDN, the company which holds the license for DTT multiplex A. SDN, then owned by NTL, S4C and United Business Media, was awarded the Multiplex A licence in May 1998. Part of the capacity on Multiplex A was reserved for services provided by Channel 5, S4C in Wales and Gaelic programming in Scotland. SDN was purchased by ITV plc in 2005. At launch, it was only available from Rosemarkie covering central Scotland; the Eitshal transmitter would follow in January 2000. TeleG initially continued to broadcast after the launch of BBC Alba on 19 September 2008.…

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