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The TV Village Experiment that Predicted Changing Viewing Habits

S1 · E48 · 20 Sep 2025 · 6 min

A Lancashire village of just over 1,000 people became one of the pioneers of modern-day satellite TV in an experiment in 1990. Waddington was used by Granada to test out multi-channel viewing and was given its own TV channel with hyper local stories.