{"id":9629,"date":"2017-04-21T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:44:56","slug":"the-uks-first-lgbt-tv-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2017\/04\/the-uks-first-lgbt-tv-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s First LGBT TV Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay TV is coming to the UK and will be available on Freeview channel 7 and Virgin Media 159 in the Greater Brighton area as well as globally online.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender presenter Sophie Cook had this to say: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be leading one of the most exciting developments in British television for decades. This represents a real opportunity to change people\u2019s lives. We want to entertain, educate and inspire our viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cook will have a weekly show and create documentaries for the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Latest TV\u2019s chief executive Bill Smith said: \u201cWith support from Coast to Capital, Latest TV has launched LGBT+ TV. \u00a0However we receive no ongoing\u00a0public funding, so we\u2019ve turned to crowdfunding to finance our service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The channel will screen LGBT films from around the world and give a platform to queer filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/the-uks-first-lgbt-tv-channel-will-start-broadcasting-in-february\/\"><strong>Attitude<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if !supportEmptyParas]-->\u00a0<!--[endif]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay TV is coming to the UK and will be available on Freeview channel 7 and Virgin Media 159 in the Greater Brighton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36821,12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-humor","featured","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}