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Channel 40
Community Access Cable Television Milton Keynes (1976 - 1979)

Channel 40 is the name given to the experimental community television project that commenced transmissions to viewers connected to the cable TV network in the new city of Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom on August 1st, 1976 and ended on August 31st, 1979. It was one of a handful of cable TV stations that operated under a special licence granted by the then Home Office in the 1970s and was succeeded only by Swindon Viewpoint in Swindon.

The Channel 40 licence was granted to a company called Co-ax Cable Communications Limited which was wholly-owned by Milton Keynes Development Corporation and Post Office Telecommunications.