UKTV is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media Television. UKTV is one of the United Kingdom's largest television companies.

UKTV's channels are available via satellite and cable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. In the UK, UKTV History and Dave are available on Freeview, and selected parts of UKTV Gold, UKTV Style and UKTV Food are available through Top Up TV.

Most programmes on UKTV's channels are repeat broadcasts of BBC productions (although the entertainment channels also feature programmes made by other companies), and the channels themselves are played out by Red Bee Media from their Broadcast Centre in West London.

2008 rebrand

On July 10, 2008 it was announced that all UKTV channels would be rebranded on October 7. UKTV have currently only announced that "UKTV Gold" will become "Gold" and "UKTV Drama" will become "Alibi". ^[1]

Channels

For more information on UKTV channels and defunct channels, see Virgin Media Television

• UKTV Documentary
• UKTV Drama
• UKTV Food
• UKTV Gardens
• UKTV Gold
• Dave
• UKTV History
• UKTV People
• UKTV Style

Coming soon

• Watch

Defunct channels

• UK Arena - focused on arts programming. Closed in 2000 due to insufficient ratings, relaunched — originally with the same graphics — as UK Drama, see above
• Play UK (formerly UK Play) — closed in 2002 due to low ratings because of the closure of ITV Digital
• UK Horizons - closed in 2004 to create UKTV People and UKTV Documentary
• UKTV People +1 - closed in 2006 to create UKTV Drama +1
• UKTV Bright Ideas - closed in 2007 on all platforms for the relaunch of UKTV G2/Dave going onto Freeview

References

http://uktv.co.uk/uktv/item/aid/603804

External links

• UKTV.co.uk
• BBC
• Virgin Media Television
• Top Up TV
• The TV Room looks at presentation/branding on the UKTV channels

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