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.
Made in Teesside began broadcasting on Freeview and Virgin Media platforms at 6 pm on Thursday 30 March 2017.
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.
[6] As of February 2018, the station's sole local programmes are North East Live, a rolling four-hour block of pre-recorded local news, sport and features airing each weeknight from 5-9 pm as well as RedArmyTV, a 30-minute independently produced football fan TV show about Middlesbrough FC – broadcast at 7.30 pm on Friday's RedArmyTV is produced by Teesside-based TV production company XCel Broadcast.
A half-hour regional block also airs on the generic Made Television networked feed on digital satellite each weekday evening at 7.30 pm.