Teesside TV Teesside TV Teesside TV (formerly Made in Teesside) is a local television station serving Middlesbrough and Teesside and parts of County Durham. The station is owned and operated by Local Television Limited and forms part of a group of eight local TV stations. The station's local offices are based in Middlesbrough. In November 2013, the broadcast regulator OFCOM announced Made Television and Trinity Mirror had been awarded a licence to run a local TV service for the Middlesbrough and Teesside areas. The licence had also been contested by a locally based group known as "TeesVision". The previous year, Made Television
Teesside Refinery Teesside Refinery The Teesside Refinery was an oil refinery and chemical plant situated just south of Seaton Carew on the River Tees in County Durham. In 2000, it was bought by Petroplus from ICI and Phillips Petroleum Company. Refining was suspended in 2009, although the site continues to operate as a terminal and storage facility. In the period 1965-1968, three oil refineries were developed close to Teesport on the River Tees, thanks to the Phillips Petroleum's development of the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea. The first two were jointly developed and operated by Phillips and ICI on the