Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
ITV Encore was a drama television channel from ITV plc launched on 9 June 2014. [6] Unlike ITV's other channels it was available exclusively on Sky and Now TV, as part of their subscription packages. A high-definition simulcast and timeshift channel, ITV Encore HD and ITV Encore +1, was also available on Sky.
ITV3 +1 started to broadcast on Freeview from 9pm - 12am. In 2020. To coincide the launch of new channel Merit, ITV3 +1 moved to channel 58 on Freeview swapping with ITVBe +1 which moved to channel 97. Since 30 November 2023, ITV3 +1 cut broadcasting hours to 2 hours each night from 4am - 6am, after ITV cleared a Freeview slot. [18]
The channel's launch on 30 March 1997 (Easter Sunday) at 6 p.m. After a brief voice over by continuity presenter David Vickery, the first broadcast was the Spice Girls singing a cover version of Manfred Mann's hit "5-4-3-2-1" as "1-2-3-4-5", [15] [16] for which they were reportedly paid around £500,000. [17]
The initiative is from Everyone TV, the organization which runs free TV in the U.K. and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Announced last year, the …
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. ... The last major review of the Channel 3 franchises was in 1991, with ...
Everybody's Equal is a game show that originally aired on ITV from 7 June 1989 to 22 July 1991 and hosted by Chris Tarrant. It was later revived under the name Whittle and aired on Channel 5 from 31 March to 30 December 1997 with Tim Vine as host. Versions also existed in many European countries, plus Canada.
BT, ITV, Channel 4, NBCUniversal, Endemol, Time Warner, Viacom, Scripps Network Interactive, Saban Capital Group, and a joint bid of BSkyB and Discovery Communications [18] were all bidders reportedly interested in acquiring Channel 5. On 1 May 2014, Desmond agreed to sell Channel 5 to Viacom for £450 million (US$759 million). [19]
ITV (made up of a number of regional franchises, branded "ITV1" or "STV") Channel 4 (S4C in Wales before analogue services closed there on 31 March 2010.) Channel 5; Prior to the cessation of analogue services, the first four services were available to 99% of households, with the more recent Channel 5 available to around 70%.