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In 1996, Lynch founded Autonomy, a search software company, with David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt. [8] With Lynch as chief executive officer (CEO), Autonomy become one of the UK's top 100 public companies, and a leading company in Silicon Fen. [15] [6] Lynch was described in the press as the British equivalent of the American businessman Bill Gates.
UKTV started life as a single channel, UK Gold.The original partners behind the channel were the BBC's commercial arm BBC Enterprises and the outgoing ITV contractor Thames Television, although before the launch the American cable operator Cox Enterprises stepped in and took a majority share, 65 percent, in exchange for underwriting the costs of launching the channel.
UKTV announces that all the networks will gain the "UKTV" prefix instead of "UK" on 8 March. UKTV announces the closure of UK Horizons, which would be replaced with two new channels – UKTV Documentary and UKTV People on the same day. [29] [30] 4 February – UK History +1 and UK Food +1 launch on Telewest. [31] 8 March
U (streaming service) U (formerly known as UKTV Play) is a video on demand service owned by UKTV, a subsidiary of BBC Studios. The service launched on 4 August 2014 and offers catch-up programming from UKTV's free-to-air channels, which include U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W and U&Yesterday. [ 1]
1 March – The monopoly on listings magazines ends with the deregulation of TV listings. Before today, Radio Times published only BBC listings and TVTimes ITV only (and from 1982, Channel 4, including S4C in a pull-out supplement Sbec). However, from this day, they can carry listings for all channels.
BBC/ITV/ Channel 4 / Channel 5 / Sky News / S4C. 10. State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. 26.20 [ 7][ 8] 19 September 2022. BBC//ITV/S4C/Sky News/ Talk TV / GB News. Notes : At least two Muhammad Ali boxing matches were reported to have been watched by at least 26 million viewers in the United Kingdom: the Fight of the Century (Ali vs. Frazier ...
UKTV is a commercial broadcaster owned by BBC Studios, one of the BBC's commercial units. Originating in 1992 with UK Gold, UKTV expanded its channels from 1997 onwards, with the BBC taking full ownership in June 2019. Unlike the BBC's public service channels, the UKTV channels contain advertising.
Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004. In 2008, it was split into current flagship channel Gold and miscellaneous channel, W, with classic comedy based programming now airing on Gold, non-crime drama and entertainment programming airing on W, and quiz shows and more high-brow comedy ...