Television in the United Kingdom 4 Corp, according to BARB's viewing figures for January 2018. On 18 January 2011, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt announced his intentions to set up a network of local television stations across the UK. The initial plan was to create a network of local television stations, connected through a national backbone. This plan would create a television network similar to that of the network-affiliate model in the United States and Canada. In June 2011, however, it was announced that the national spine plan would be scrapped, and a 'bottom-up' approach would be followed instead,
NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool is an upcoming professional wrestling show and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their NXT UK brand. The show will take place on January 12, 2019 at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire, England and will be streamed live on the WWE Network. It will be the first event promoted under the NXT UK TakeOver chronology. NXT TakeOver is a series of professional wrestling shows that began on May 29, 2014, when WWE's developmental brand NXT held their second live special on the WWE Network. The company's second developmental brand NXT