Sheffield Cablevision

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| launch_date = 29 August 1973

| closed_date = 2 January 1976

| owner = British Relay Wireless

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Sheffield Cablevision was a cable television community channel in Sheffield, England which launched on 29 August 1973.{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/media/television/Community_cable.htm|title=Community cable experiments|publisher=Terra Media|date=30 January 2006}} The channel was one of five community cable television experiments that were authorised by the UK's Minister for Posts and Telecommunications in 1972.{{cite book |chapter=Panaceas and Promises of Democratic Participation: Reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web |first1=Rod |last1=Allen |first2=Nod |last2=Miller |title=Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society |editor1-first=Flis |editor1-last=Henwood |editor2-first=Nod |editor2-last=Miller |editor3-first=Peter |editor3-last=Senker |editor4-first=Sally |editor4-last=Wyatt |editor4-link=Sally Wyatt |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |isbn=9780203134504 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDW94RKbHcoC |pages=52–53}} It closed on 2 January 1976 due to lack of funds.{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |page=6 |title=Lack of funds closes local TV |date=2 January 1976}}{{efn|Although Allen and Miller state that only the Greenwich and Swindon broadcasters were still operating in 1975, contemporary news reports indicate that Sheffield Cablevision did not cease broadcasting until 2 January 1976.}}