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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]
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.
Freeview Play is a more recent addition which adds direct access to catch-up services via the Internet. The technical specification for Freeview is published and maintained by the Digital TV Group , the industry association for digital TV in the UK which also provide the test and conformance regime for Freeview, Freeview + and Freeview HD products.
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view ...
YouView TV Ltd is a British media company, a partnership of four broadcasters: the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5; and two telecommunications operators, BT Group and TalkTalk Group (formerly also Arqiva ). It launched in 2012 the hybrid television platform named YouView, [ 2] which was formed from an ambitious project between the UK's four ...
UKTV Drama and UKTV Drama +1 were renamed as Alibi and Alibi +1, respectively, on 7 October 2008, and the channel's programmes were changed to focus specifically on crime dramas. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] All non-crime dramas were transferred to the rebranded Gold channel or to the newly created flagship channel Watch .
Virgin Media gradually restored all 10 UKTV channels with their +1 and HD Simulcast channels along with now added simulcast GOLD HD and the reinstalled UKTV Play app. The app now features five times the amount of more on-demand content now available.
This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, and those that have been removed.. Almost all channels broadcast on DTT are free-to-air, with a limited number of subscription channels (requiring a subscription to a pay-TV package) and pay-per-view channels (requiring a one-off payment to view an event) also available.