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New London TV station commissions weekly music show
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 7 March 2014
The new local TV service for London – London Live – will have a live music show at launch, it has been confirmed.
London Live, one of nineteen super-local TV channels in the process of going live around the UK, will start broadcasting at the end of the month. It will be operated by a company called ESTV, which is in turn owned by the Lebedev family who also own the majority of the London Evening Standard (and for now The Independent too). There is expected to be quite a bit of crossover between the Standard and the new TV service.
The weekly music show, twelve editions of which have been commissioned, will be called ‘SoundClash’, and it will be made by independent production firm 3DD, which ironically is possibly best known in music circles for making a show also called ‘London Live’.
Confirming the show, London Live Commissioner Lorna Cole told CMU: “It feels like terrestrial TV schedules have been crying out for a music show for some time. London Live wants to bring the vibrancy of the scene in the capital to peak-time programming. If music is the heartbeat of the city, we hope fans and artists alike will view ‘SoundClash’ as the pulse”.
Meanwhile 3DD Producer Jess Eldridge added: “There is a real appetite for a weekly music show which reflects the ever evolving face of the UK music scene. London has always led the way in breaking new talent and providing a thriving environment to showcase artists both big and small from every genre. ‘SoundClash’ aims to capture that energy with the hottest performances and interviews of the moment to give a real sense of what’s going on right now”.
