Londoners will have their first taste of a new TV channel devoted exclusively to the capital when London Live officially starts broadcasting on Monday evening.
Backed by Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, London Live will air 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the aim of providing a metropolitan TV rival to the coverage of the capital offered by the BBC, ITV and Sky. Its launch has been touted as the biggest since that of Channel 5 in 1997.
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