UKTV History
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| UKTV History | |
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| Launched | 30 October 2002 |
| Owned by | UKTV (BBC/Virgin Media Television) |
| Audience share | 0.6% (0.0% for +1) (February 2007, [1]) |
| Formerly called | UK History (until March 2004) |
| Replaced | Play UK |
| Timeshift service | UKTV History +1 |
| Website | www.uktvhistory.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 12 |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 537 Channel 538 (+1) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 203 Channel 204 (+1) |
UKTV History (previously known as UK History until 8 March 2004) is a television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom as part of the UKTV network of channels. It launched on 30 October 2002, to coincide with the launch of the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform.
The channel is available on digital terrestrial television (Freeview), Sky Digital and Virgin Media. UKTV History operates as a subscription service on Digital Satellite and Cable but is available free to air on the Freeview platform. A timeshifted "+1", UKTV History +1 service is also available on Sky and Virgin Media
The channel shows a wide variety of history and natural history documentaries and biographies mainly from the BBC archives.
These include:
- Battleplan
- British Isles: A Natural History
- Coast
- Crafty Tricks Of War
- Days that Shook the World
- Meet the Ancestors
- Planet Earth
- Pornography: A Secret History
- Ray Mears' Bushcraft
- Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
- Simon Schama's A History of Britain
- The Naked Archaeologist
- The World at War
- What the Victorians Did for Us
- What the Stuarts Did for Us
And UKTV's own produced documentaries.
- 1945
[edit] Logo history
 UK History |
 UKTV History |
[edit] External links
- History at UKTV.co.uk
UKTV Bright Ideas • UKTV Documentary • UKTV Drama • UKTV Food • UKTV Gardens • UKTV G2 • UKTV Gold • UKTV History • UKTV People • UKTV Style
Former channels: UK Arena • UK Horizons • Play UK
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