In November 2013, the broadcast regulator OFCOM announced Made Television and
Trinity Mirror had been awarded a licence to run a local TV service for the
Middlesbrough and
Teesside areas. The licence had also been contested by a locally based group known as
TeesVision. Made in Teesside began broadcasting on Freeview and Virgin Media platforms at 6 pm on Thursday 30 March 2017. The station is run jointly with its sister Tyne and Wear station from studios at the
University of Sunderland with production staff also based locally in Middlesbrough. In November 2017, studio production of daily news and magazine programmes was transferred to other Made TV stations. On Thursday 25 May 2017, Made in Teesside and its sister channels began carrying acquired programming from the UK & Ireland version of factual entertainment channel
TruTV as part of a supply agreement with
Sony Pictures Television. The station simulcasts TruTV in two daily blocks from 1-5 pm and from 9 pm-1 am (8 pm – midnight on Tuesdays to accommodate ''
America's Got Talent''). As of November 2017, the Made network began simulcasting
CBS Reality for eleven hours a day. In January 2022, OFCOM approved a request by the channel to close its Middlesbrough offices and move permanently to a remote production model implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, with content sent electronically to Local TV's broadcast centre in Leeds for playout. == Programming ==