List of British television channels
From Freepedia
This is a list of channels are available on digital aerial, satellite and cable systems. Many channels have a "timeshift" service i.e. the same programming (and usually advertisements as well) broadcast one or two hours later to give viewers another chance to catch a favourite programme. These channels are not included in the list below.
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A
- abc1 - operated by Disney under the abc Brand
- The Adult Channel
- Adventure 1 - affiliated with National Geographic Channel
- The Advert Channel
- Amateur Girls
- The Amp
- Animal Planet - operated by Discovery Channel
- Artsworld
- ARY Digital
- Asia 1
- Asianet
- At the Races - originally operated by Channel 4; now owned by Sky
B
- B4U Movies
- B4U Music
- B4U TV
- Bangla TV
- BBC Four
- BBCi Interactive Television Service
- BBC News 24
- BBC One
- BBC Parliament
- BBC Three
- BBC Two
- BBC 2W
- BBC Two NI
- BET International
- The Baby Channel
- bid tv
- Bloomberg TV
- The Biography Channel - affiliated with the History Channel
- Boomerang - operated by Cartoon Network
- The Box
- Bravo
C
- Cable Channel One
- Cartoon Network
- CBBC Channel - operated by BBC
- CBeebies - operated by BBC
- CCTV 9
- Celtic TV - operated by Celtic F.C.
- Challenge
- Channel 4
- Channel Urban
- Chart Show TV
- Chelsea TV - operated by Chelsea F.C.
- CNBC Europe
- CNE
- CNN International (see also CNN for more information)
- Community Channel
D
- Discovery
- Discovery Civilisations
- Discovery Home & Health (formerly Discovery Health)
- Discovery Kids
- Discovery Real Time (formerly Discovery Home & Leisure; originally TLC)
- Discovery Science (formerly Discovery Sci Trek)
- Discovery Travel and Living (formerly Discovery Travel and Adventure)
- Discovery Wings
- The Disney Channel
E
- E4 - operated by Channel 4
- EuroNews
- Eurosport 2
- Eurosport
- Extreme Sports
F
- Fashion TV
- FilmFour - operated by Channel 4
- FilmFour Weekly - operated by Channel 4
- five (formerly known as Channel 5)
- Fizz
- Flaunt
- FOX News
- Friendly TV
- Front Row Digital
- Ftn
- FX - operated by Fox
G
- Game Network
- Gay TV Operated by Red Hot TV
- GBC
- GMTV - runs on ITV1 daily, 06:00 - 09:25
- GMTV2 - runs on ITV2 daily, 06:00 - 09:25
- The God Channel
- The God Channel 2
H
I
- Ideal World
- ITV News Channel (formerly ITN News Channel)
- ITV1 (Border Scotland, England and Wales; formerly ITV) UTV in N. Ireland, Scottish TV in S. Scotland, Grampian TV in N. Scotland and Channel TV in the Channel Islands
- ITV2
- ITV3
- ITV4
J
- Jetix (formerly Fox Kids)
K
- Kerrang! TV (affiliated with Kerrang magazine)
- Kiss TV (affiliated with Kiss FM radio)
L
M
- Channel m, Manchester
- Magic TV (affiliated with Magic 105.4 FM)
- MATV Midlands Asian Television- Targeting Asian veiwers in the Leicestershire. Broadcasts programs in Hindi, English and Gujurati
- Men & Motors - operated by ITV
- More4 - operated by Channel 4
- Movies 333
- The Move Channel*MTV Base
- MTV Dance
- MTV Hits (MTV Extra prior to May 2001)
- MTV
- MTV2
- Multi Channel
- Music Choice Blues - all Music Choice channels are audio and text only
- Music Choice Classical
- Music Choice Country
- Music Choice Dance
- Music Choice Easy Listening
- Music Choice Europe
- Music Choice Gold
- Music Choice Hits
- Music Choice Jazz
- Music Choice Love
- Music Choice Rock
- MUTV - operated by Manchester United F.C.
N
- National Geographic Channel
- Nick Jr
- Nickelodeon
- Nicktoons TV
- North American Sports Network (NASN)
- Northern Visions http://www.northernvisions.org/ Northern Visions is a media centre in Belfast, they broadcast on NvTv
- NTL Front Row - (Pay-Per-View)
O
P
- The Pakistani Channel
- The Poker Channel
- Paramount Comedy 2
- Paramount Comedy
- Performance
- Playboy TV
- Playhouse Disney
- POP
- PremPlus - Formally Premiership Plus(Pay-Per-View)
- price-drop tv
Q
R
- The Racing Channel
- Rai Uno
- Rangers TV - operated by Rangers F.C.
- Redhot 40+ Wives - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot All Girl - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Amateur - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Climax - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Movies - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Only 18 - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Rears - operated by Red Hot TV
- Redhot Wives - operated by Red Hot TV
S
- S4C
- S4C2
- SAB TV- Indian television
- Sat 1
- Sci-fi (no longer affiliated with US Sci Fi Channel (United States))
- Screenshop
- Scuzz
- Setanta Sports
- Setanta 2
- Shop America
- Simply Shopping
- Six TV, Oxford and Southampton
- Sky Box Office - (Pay-Per-View)
- Sky Movies Cinema 1
- Sky Movies Cinema 2
- Sky Movies 1 through Sky Movies 9 (these channels supersede Sky Movies Premier 1 through 5 and Sky Movies Max/Moviemax 1 through 4, but not necessarily in that order)
- Sky News
- Sky Mix (originally Sky One Mix)
- Sky One
- Sky Three
- Sky Sports 1
- Sky Sports 2
- Sky Sports 3
- Sky Sports Xtra
- Sky Sports News
- Sky Travel
- Sky Travel Extra
- Solent.TV, Isle of Wight
- Sony Entertainment TV Asia
- Sound TV - run by Richard Digance and Joe Pasquale
- Star Plus
T
- TCM
- Teachers' TV
- Tele-G - Scottish Gaelic channel
- Television X
- TMF - The Music Factory
- Tiny Pop
- Toon Disney
- Toonami (formerly CNX) - affiliated with Cartoon Network
- Travel Channel
- Trouble
- TV5
- TVE International
U
- UKTV Bright Ideas
- UKTV Documentary
- UKTV Drama
- UKTV Food
- UKTV G2
- UKTV Gold
- UKTV History
- UKTV People
- UKTV Style
- UKTV Style Gardens
V
W
X
Y
- York.TV, York.
- YSTV- University of York Student Channel
Z
Future channels
- ITV4 - New from ITV plc, to launch 1 November 2005
- Sky Three - New from BSkyB. A general entertainment channel showing a range of prgramming shown on Sky One 12 to 18 months previously - to launch on 30 October 2005, and is expected to coincide with a rebranding of Sky Mix to Sky Two
Defunct channels
- Auction World.tv - Licence to broadcast terminated
- BBC Choice - replaced by BBC Three
- BBC Knowledge - replaced by BBC Four
- Carlton Cinema
- Channel Six Dundee - A former RSL broadcasting to the city of Dundee
- CNX
- EBN - Merged with Bloomberg
- Faze TV - Television channel targeted towards gay men. Scheduled to start broadcasting in September 2005; however never lauched due to funding issues.
- FilmFour Extreme
- FilmFour World
- Granada Breeze
- Granada Plus
- L!VE TV
- Play UK (originally UK Play)
- Plus - originally Granada Plus; Closed by Granada Sky Broadcasting as part of a deal to carry ITV3 on Sky Digital
- Rapture TV
- Shop!
- Six TV, Portsmouth
- Super Channel — one of the early pan-European satellite television channels. Was taken over by NBC.
- The Studio - NTL cable only
- .tv - Previously known as The Computer Channel
- UK Horizons
- UTV2 Broadcast in Northern Ireland on ONdigital (an early UK pay DTT Network) in place of ITV2 which was available in England and Wales
- Sky 2
- Sky Soap
- The Wrestling Channel Reloaded
- TV Travel Shop
- TV Travel Shop 2
- Where It's At
See also
- Lists of television channels
- Analogue television in the United Kingdom
- Restricted Service Licence
- List of UK Digital Terrestrial television channels
- International BBC television channels
- List of British radio stations
- UK topics



