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Local television channel in Kent, United Kingdom Television channel
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast areaKent
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerKM Media Group
History
Launched10 July 2017; 7 years ago (2017-07-10)
Availability
Terrestrial
FreeviewChannel 7

KMTV is the local television service for Kent County, owned by the KM Media Group. The station is jointly operated with the University of Kent and is available to viewers in the Bluebell Hill and Tunbridge Wells transmitters.

History

On 30 July 2014, KMTV was awarded a licence to operate in Kent County out of Maidstone, with plans to start broadcasting by 2015, covering 175,000 households in the county alone. The licence was jointly bid by the KM Media Group and the University of Kent, who jointly pooled their resources.

The channel launched on 10 July 2017 at 5:30pm on Freeview and Virgin Media with the inaugural edition of Kent Tonight. The station broadcasts from a purpose-built studio at Medway Campus.

In August 2021, a new programme, Critical Law TV, was announced. KMTV became one of the first Medway businesses to benefit from a DCMS investment programme, alongside Palladian Media, in the summer of 2023. October 2023 saw Generation Why, a programme about religion-related issues aimed at school-age students. The series is funded by the British Film Institute.

Kent University suffered a funding crisis in early 2024, damaging its co-operation with KMTV. In January 2025, Hadlow College was featured as part of a feature on a Kent Tonight special on the future of farming.

References

  1. Ofcom awards Maidstone local TV licence
  2. University-partnered KMTV launched on 10 July
  3. Kent Uni law students launch TV series exploring ‘contemporary legal issues’
  4. Medway creative businesses among the first to benefit from investment programme
  5. KMTV Children’s TV series ‘Generation Why’
  6. BFI funded TV series exploring spirituality in the UK launches on KMTV
  7. Centre for Journalism being sacrificed to fill University of Kent funding gap
  8. Hadlow College Shines in KMTV’s Look at the Next Generation of Farmers
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