Ftn

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Ftn

Launched	15 January 2003
Owned by	Virgin Media Television
Audience share	0.3% (February 2007, [1])
Website	www.ftn.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 20
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 157
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 123

Ftn (Flextech Television Network) is a television channel from Virgin Media Television transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital. The channel broadcasts between 6pm and 6am daily. It launched at 6pm on 15 January 2003, six hours after neighbouring Freeview channel, UKTV Bright Ideas, also partially owned by Virgin Media Television.

1 Programming
- 1.1 General
- 1.2 Commercial and Participation TV
2 Notes and references
3 External links

[edit] Programming

[edit] General

Ftn mixes gritty reality, celebrity gossip, full on talk, hard hitting drama, and real life fly on the wall documentaries, although its most well-known shows are a selection of Most Haunted, Street Crime UK, The L Word and The Crystal Maze. Ftn also used to show US chat show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, American animation Dilbert and famous Australian sitcom Kath & Kim. Ftn also features programmes from other Virgin Media Television channels: Living, Living2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Trouble, and Challenge.

Some of the more popular programming shown on the channel in the last few years:

Booze Britain
Booze Britain 2: Binge Nation
Boston Legal
Bullseye
Close to Home
Cold Sqaud
Date My Sister
Da Vinci's Inquest
Dead Famous
Dilbert
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Fort Boyard
Ghost Towns
Gladiators (as of march 20th)
Hollywood Star Treatment
Increase Your House Price By £10K
Street Crime UK
The Crystal Maze
The Krypton Factor
The L Word
Most Haunted
Most Haunted Almost Live
Most Haunted Live
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Night Stalker
Sixth Sense with Colin Fry
Takeshi's Castle
The Ultimate Fighter
The Warehouse

[edit] Commercial and Participation TV

Ftn currently features Participation TV in the form of Big Game TV which is broadcast nightly between the hours of 00:00 and 03:00am.

Previously between November 2005 and November 2006 Quiz Night Live broadcast from 22.00 - 01.00 daily only to be replaced by Ostrich Media's Quiz Call which ceased broadcasting on the channel on the 1 January 2007.

From 2003 to early 2006, the channel broadcast a two-hour slot of Thomas Cook TV between the hours of 18.00 and 20.00. However, this was reduced in mid-2006 to one hour, before being completely dropped towards the last quarter of the year. As of January 2007, the channel broadcasts Teleshopping early hours of the morning, with promotions and informercials from various providers.