Middlesbrough F.C. fans show renews TV deal for upcoming season

RedArmy.TV, a weekly TV show staffed entirely by volunteer Middlesbrough F.C. fans, is set to return to TV TV for another season.

The 30 minute show has been re-commissioned for a second season by TV channel Made in Teesside.

Starting as a YouTube channel, the show is now preparing for a 3rd series which will see fans air their views on performances, players and anything else Boro related. The show also broadcasts hundreds of videos sent in by supporters from around the world.

RedArmy.TV, which has seen the likes of Craig Hignett, Steve McClaren, Neil Maddison, world darts champ Glen Durrant sit alongside fans on the Red Settee, also brings in volunteers supporters and provides training in TV and media production helping them to develop both their personal and professional skills.

Dave Roberts, RedArmy.TV owner, and former Fox TV executive, said: “This is the best part of RedArmy.TV.

“To see Boro fans with no media experience walk through the door and within weeks be producing a TV show gives great satisfaction. The entire RedArmy.TV team are Boro fan volunteers.”

The TV show teamed up with Teesside University last season to give media students the opportunity to work in a real TV production environment.

Tony Hazell, head of Made in Teesside, commented: “We’re delighted to welcome another series of RedArmy.TV to Made in Teesside. The new channel has quickly established itself as part of Teesside life and RedArmy.TV has certainly helped that process since launch.

“We are introducing great changes to Made in Teesside to make it even better, and RedArmy.TV is to continue to play a major role. The Boro fans behind the show are doing a great job and it made perfect sense to see it continue on the TV channel for the new season.”

Roberts added: “This day and age, anyone can open an online platform and call themselves a TV show or channel but being on ‘real’ TV provides us a prestigious position, one hundreds of Fan TV channels around the country can only dream of.

“To think it’s an entire team of volunteer Boro fans paving the way, just like we did with Boro TV so many years ago, is absolutely tremendous. It makes all the time, energy and money continually spent on RedArmy.TV so worth while.”

RedArmy.TV will air on Made in Teesside every Thursday evening at 7.30pm from 3rd August, repeated Saturday mornings at 10am.

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