Teesside TV had also been awarded the licence for the Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland areas, which launched as Made in Tyne & Wear in November 2014. There were three other bids for the licence - Neon TV, Metro8 Newcastle and YourTV Newcastle. Made in Teesside began broadcasting on Freeview and Virgin Media platforms at 6pm on Thursday 30 March 2017. The station is run jointly with its sister Tyne and Wear station from studios at the University of Sunderland with production staff also based locally in Middlesbrough. In November 2017, studio production of daily news and magazine programmes was transferred to other
BEI-Teesside power 50,000 homes. BEI-Teesside BEI-Teesside is a planned biomass power station, expected to be built on the River Tees at Port Clarence. The scheme was first announced in late 2009. It was developed by Bio Energy Investments (BEI), and the plant designed by Heatherwick Studio. The plant was granted planning permission on 17 March 2010, with construction expected to start later that year. The plant was expected to be completed in 2012, at a cost of £150 million, while creating 200 construction jobs and 40 full-time jobs when the plant is complete. The land earmarked for the construction of the