The longest-running local TV station in the UK has announced it will close this month, with the licence to transfer to rival That’s TV.

Grimsby-based Estuary TV will stop broadcasting on 31 August, resulting in its entire staff – understood to be fewer than ten people – being made redundant. Staff can apply for roles with the new owners, it is understood.

In November 2013 Estuary TV, which covers East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, became the first channel to launch under the Government’s local TV initative introduced under then Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, backed by money from the BBC licence fee.