Quote: Chorlton RL "Really? I watch music programmes on there every now and then. The coverage of RL used to be terrific for a little station. Didn't they used to have a magazine programme?'"
They used to show a weekly programme called Code XIII. It started off as a show just for Salford then expanded to cover the whole Manchester region but slowly the channels budget was cut and cut and cut. It was a good show by all accounts but it by airing on Fridays at 7pm when most people are either a, out at a game (Wigan and Salford both played Fridays) or b, watching the Super League build up on Sky. They also showed some pre season games prior to the 2008 season.
The final straw was the Manchester Evening News being sold last February. The then MEN owners ran the channel but the sale was for the newspaper only and didn't include the TV channel, so closure was inevitable. The heart had long gone out of the channel anyway the nearer digital switchover was coming closer. In my view the government should have supported ventures like Channel M, now that the ITV network have abandoned local television bar news bulletins. It would have been good on Freeview if it got government backing.
