It is owned and operated by That's TV and broadcasts on Freeview channel 7 from studios at The Flint Glass Works in the Ancoats suburb of Manchester.

[5] The station broadcasts to its licence area from the Winter Hill transmitter via a directional localised signal beam on Freeview channel 7, but is not available on satellite or cable.

Along with all of the That's TV stations, That's Manchester programming consisted of a single news bulletin, shown on a loop during the evening and overnight, with teleshopping and old films broadcast during the day.

By 2020 That's Manchester had become reduced to a 10-minute local news slot at 6pm, with music video shows networked under the 'That's 70s', 'That's 80s' and 'That's 90s' section name in the afternoon and night (TJC - The Jewellery Channel was still being simulcast in the morning).

[18][19][20] Even though most marketing in the press focused on the rerunning of Home and Away from the start, on 12 January 2024 the repeats were taken out of the schedule and replaced with 80s pop videos, Blankety Blank, old ITV sitcoms and new to the network episodes of Would I Lie to You?

[20][22] As of 15 January 2024, the channel was still broadcasting Baywatch and Prisoner: Cell Block H in their usual slots, but is repeating episodes of Little Britain, Bread, Up Pompeii!, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Great British Railway Journeys, Blankety Blank, The League of Gentlemen, The Jerry Springer Show, Grace & Favour, Baywatch, Fat Friends, The Kenny Everett Video Show, Steptoe & Son and The Benny Hill Show, a day after being shown on the main That's TV UK channel.