UKTV History

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UKTV History
Launched	30 October 2002
Owned by	UKTV (BBC/Flextech)
Audience share	0.5% (0.1% for +1) (November '06, Source:[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
NTL	Channel 203
Telewest	Channel 203 Channel 204 (+1)

UKTV History, known as UK History until 8th March 2004, is a British television channel, launched on 30th October 2002, to coincide with the launch of the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform.

The channel is available on digital terrestrial television (Freeview), Satellite (BSkyB) and Cable platforms. 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 some platforms.

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
• Days that Shook the World
• Meet the Ancestors
• 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

[edit] Past Logos

[edit] External links

• History at UKTV.co.uk

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