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+name: 📺 Channel Request
+description: Request to add a channel into the database
+title: 'Add: '
+labels: ['channel request']
+
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        Please fill out the issue template as much as you can so we could efficiently process your request
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Channel Name
+      description: Official channel name in English. May include: `a-z`, `à-ÿ`, `0-9`, `space`, `-`, `!`, `:`, `&`, `.`, `+`, `'`, `/`, `»`, `#`, `%`, `°`, `$`, `@`, `?`, `(`, `)`
+      placeholder: 'Anhui TV'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Native Name (optional)
+      description: Channel name in the original language. Used when different from `name`. May contain any characters except `,` and `"`
+      placeholder: '安徽卫视'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Network (optional)
+      description: Network of which this channel is a part.
+      placeholder: 'Anhui'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Country
+      description: Country code from which the channel is transmitted. A list of all supported countries and their codes can be found in [data/countries.csv](data/countries.csv) 
+      placeholder: 'CN'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Subdivision (optional)
+      description: Code of the subdivision (e.g., provinces or states) from which the broadcast is transmitted. A list of all supported subdivisions and their codes can be found in [data/subdivisions.csv](data/subdivisions.csv)
+      placeholder: 'CN-AH'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: City (optional)
+      description: Name of the city from which the channel is transmitted. May only contain `a-z`, `à-ÿ`, `0-9`, `space`, `-`, `'`
+      placeholder: 'Hefei'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Broadcast Area
+      description: List of codes describing the broadcasting area of the channel. Any combination of `r/<region_code>`, `c/<country_code>`, `s/<subdivision_code>`
+      placeholder: 's/CN-AH'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Languages
+      description: List of languages in which the channel is broadcast separated by `;`. A list of all supported languages and their codes can be found in [data/languages.csv](data/languages.csv)
+      placeholder: 'zho;eng'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Categories (optional)
+      description: List of categories to which this channel belongs separated by `;`. A list of all supported categories can be found in [data/categories.csv](data/categories.csv)
+      placeholder: 'animation;kids'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: NSFW
+      description: Indicates whether the channel broadcasts adult content
+      options:
+        - label: 'FALSE'
+        - label: 'TRUE'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Launched (optional)
+      description: Launch date of the channel (`YYYY-MM-DD`)   
+      placeholder: '2016-07-28'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Closed (optional)
+      description: Date on which the channel closed (`YYYY-MM-DD`)   
+      placeholder: '2020-05-31'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Replaced By (optional)
+      description: The ID of the channel that this channel was replaced by
+      placeholder: 'CCTV1.cn'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Website (optional)
+      description: Official website URL
+      placeholder: 'http://www.ahtv.cn/'
+
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Logo
+      description: Logo URL
+      placeholder: 'https://example.com/logo.png'
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Notes
+      description: 'Anything else we should know about this channel?'