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In the 1991 franchise round they had one competitor against them - "CI3 Group" who bid £102,000 and lost on the quality threshold. Channel Television bid just £1,000 for the franchise and thanks to them passing the quality threshold, they won by default.
This info is also available at https://www.channelonline.tv/our-history/ although I thought that domain had long been given up by Channel TV.
Ah it's one of those strange ones where some bot has grabbed the domain and a load of copy from web archive and resurrected it in some Frankenstein form to convey advertising.
In the 1991 franchise round they had one competitor against them - "CI3 Group" who bid £102,000 and lost on the quality threshold. Channel Television bid just £1,000 for the franchise and thanks to them passing the quality threshold, they won by default.
This info is also available at https://www.channelonline.tv/our-history/ although I thought that domain had long been given up by Channel TV.
Ah it's one of those strange ones where some bot has grabbed the domain and a load of copy from web archive and resurrected it in some Frankenstein form to convey advertising.