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The Tube returns to Manchester

08/08/2006

Manchester is to be the host city for the return of hit music show, the Tube.

Recorded in front of a live audience, the show, which helped launch Channel 4 in 1982, will be broadcast on the television station's internet radio, Channel4radio.com.

Previously recorded in Newcastle, Manchester-based media business, UK One FM, will produce the show that generated a cult following in the 1980s.

The Tube helped start the television careers of musician Jools Holland and the late Paula Yates, but was taken off air in 1987 and has not since returned.

"The original Tube was not only enormously popular. It broke new bands and established Jools Holland and Paula Yates as household names," said Nathalie Schwarz, Channel 4 director of radio.

"It was fresh, unpredictable and edgy. These are the qualities we wish to emulate."

Channel4radio.com was launched earlier this year with the aim of eventually launching a series of DAB digital radio stations.


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