[3] Two months later, the company won a second licence for the Southampton and Portsmouth areas, in conjunction with newspaper publishers Newsquest and Johnston Press.

[6] The local TV licences for the Manchester and Preston/Blackpool areas were initially awarded to YourTV in February 2013, but both services failed to launch within the two-year timeframe permitted by the regulator.

[6] That's TV took a controlling stake in YourTV in March 2015[7][8] A soft launch of That's Manchester took place on 31 May 2015, followed by That's Lancashire on 24 August.

[9] The founder of That's TV, Esther Rantzen, became the group's vice president when it opened its first station in Portsmouth and was lined up to present a weekly magazine programme.

[16] In July 2019, That's TV announced the closure of 13 of its 20 studios in order to downsize to seven regional production centres producing content for its 20 local stations.

The remaining centres were announced as being located in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, York, Cambridge, Salisbury and Swansea.

[37] In July 2023, it was reported that the licence for the forthcoming That's Reality channel had been changed to That's Cinema, whilst That's Comedy had not launched[38] and the main service had been taken off the Vision TV app.

[47][48] In October 2021,[49] That's TV started to show Thames TV's early 1990s compilations of The Best of Tommy Cooper, which were previously shown on UKTV's Yesterday channel[50] and the BAFTA-winning The Kenny Everett Video Show,[49] a programme from 1978 which mixed music performances by people like Bryan Ferry with dance routines and comedy sketches.

On 19 October 2021, the channel started to show series 2 of Men Behaving Badly featuring the 'classic' line-up of Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Caroline Quentin, and Leslie Ash.

[51][52] Other comedians to be found on the channel over the festive period included Kenny Everett, Mike Yarwood, and Tommy Cooper, while the Carry On... team were seen in a number of Christmas TV specials.

[55] Other rights picked up for rebroadcast by the channel in the first few months of 2022 included Sez Les with John Cleese, a Yorkshire Television sketch comedy show that starred Les Dawson alongside Monty Python member Cleese and Coronation Street's Roy Barraclough,[56] Hylda Baker's sitcom Not On Your Nellie, Russ Abbott's Madhouse and Autopsy, a programme with Dr. Michael Hunter from the Reelz Channel in America, turning up on the That's TV EPG under episode titles such as Larry Hagman: What Killed JR?,[57] Luther Vandross: Killed by Food?, Bee Gee Andy: Inner Demons[58] or Adam West: What Killed Batman?.

[73] On 8 September 2022, the run was temporarily interrupted as the channel and Classic Hits were taken off air for 24 hours as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II.

[82] McEwan wrote an investigative article for Private Eye magazine in March 2019 where he revealed that That's TV was refusing to tell the public where stations were broadcasting from.

A longer version of the article was published by the Star and Crescent, where McEwan revealed that the first station to launch – That's Solent in 2014 – had left Highbury College in Portsmouth.

As the code states, suppliers "must pay wages sufficient to meet basic needs and to provide some discretionary income".

[81] McEwan found evidence suggesting that That's Hampshire staff were sharing the office of That's Thames Valley in Reading.

However, in what appeared to be a blunder, a YouTube video showed a That's Solent presenter reading out the station contact details for That's Salisbury during a pre-recorded bulletin on 5 February 2019.

The regulator also stated, "That's TV has confirmed that viewers of the services will not notice any difference in the content broadcast, with news items and interviews still recorded within the licensed area..." But sites like Star & Crescent previously watched That's Solent news bulletins that aired many stories from outside of the Solent area.

A former employee of another That's TV station said Ofcom's claim that viewers would not notice any difference in news content "completely misses the point".

A source close to That's TV employees also claimed staff read about nationwide studio closures on news sites rather than being told by management.

[91] In December 2019, the Star & Crescent published the following update to its story about the closure of 13 studios in That's TV's network of 20 licences:[91] That's TV chief executive Daniel Cass had previously told BBC News in July 2019: "Does it make sense to be investing resources in 20 physical premises where you're tying up quite a lot of your reporters and journalists in administration and technical work rather than doing what we're doing going forward, which is freeing them up to spend significant time to be journalists?

Prior to Cass' comment to BBC News in July 2019, Ofcom had also confirmed in a freedom of information reply in April 2019 that it had no address details for either production offices or studios in the licensed areas of Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee and Edinburgh.

In 2021, Ofcom agreed to the request from That's TV to reduce the number of production bases it has in regards to its newsgathering with some local news items to be produced outside the broadcast areas the company holds the licence for.

The 24 hour version of Classic Hits subsequently reappeared on satellite, and launched on Sky channel 366 on 2 August 2022.

[119] The satellite broadcast of a 'That's 90s' feed began in August 2023, utilising capacity freed up by the earlier closure of Trace Hits.

On Freesat, That's 60s was removed from the Music guide, remaining available by manual tuning, with That's Christmas added to the rear of the Entertainment listing.

At the same time That's 90s replaced That's 80s on UK-wide Freeview, with both remaining available as discrete channels in Manchester; viewers outside the city can continue to see 70s and 90s music via the daily programmed blocs on That's TV UK.

That's 60s began as a music block on the local That's TV networks before launching as its own channel on 6 January 2023 replacing Classic Hits.

From 22 November 2023 until 3 January 2024, That's 80s was rebranded temporarily as Best Xmas Music and became a programming block on the main That's TV channels on 19 August 2024.

That's Fabulous launched on 18 September 2024 replacing That's Rock, airing mainly American and British pop music from the 21st Century so far, and featuring a look-alike logo like the defunct Heart TV.