Virgin Media Television
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Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) is a British television company and is entirely owned by the British cable company Virgin Media Inc (previously known as NTL and Telewest) and acts as its television programme production arm.
Virgin Media Television owns a number of British channels, available on Digital Terrestrial (Freeview), Satellite (Sky Digital) and Cable platforms.
Virgin Media Television started life as United Artists (Programming) Ltd, a division of Croydon-Based United Artists Cable. As part of the formation of Telewest, it was the subject of a management buy-out and was re-purchased by the (then much enlarged) Telewest Communications in 2000.
On February 8 2007 Flextech was renamed Virgin Media Television as part of a rebranding exercise covering NTL:Telewest, Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net.
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[edit] Channels operated by Virgin Media Television
[edit] Virgin branded channels
- Virgin Central, a TV channel which is based on video- on- demand.
[edit] Other channels
The company operates ten television channels plus a number of time shifted channels, all available on Satellite and Cable television services, with Ftn also available on Freeview channel 20.
- Ftn
- Bravo (and Bravo +1) (and Adult Swim from midnight)
- Bravo 2 (formerly Player)
- Trouble (and Trouble +1)
- Challenge (formerly The Family Channel) (and Challenge +1)
- Living (formerly UK Living and LIVINGtv) (and Living +1)
- Living2
It also owns half (along with BBC Worldwide) of UKTV, which runs a further eleven channels. Virgin Media Television also owns Sit-Up TV, who operates the Screenshop, bid tv, price-drop tv and speed auction tv channels.
[edit] Defunct Channels
- The Children's Channel (Also TCC)
- SceneOne
