 As well as relaying satellite channels it operated its own local cable TV channel known as Swindon's Local Channel.It closed permanently in 2000, after 16 years of broadcasting mostly local programming on the Wiltshire town's cable network.The roots of cable TV in Swindon go back to 1928, when a company called Radio Relay transmitted two audio channels on a wire that ran around the town to a relatively small number of homes.