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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Broadcast area | Asia Africa Middle East |
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| Language(s) | English |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | ITV plc |
| History | |
| Launched | 1997 |
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| Website | itvchoice |
ITV Choice (formerly Granada UKTV, Granada TV and ITV Granada) was a television channel owned and operated by ITV plc.
The channel was launched in 1997 by Granada Media under the name Granada UKTV, and offered cable and satellite services in Middle East, Malta and Asia. [1] It was also carried by Sky Network Television in New Zealand between 1999 and 2002. [2]
The service was expanded and relaunched as Granada TV during 2008, when ITV announced plans to offer the channel to cable and satellite operators in Asia. [3]
On 1 November 2010, it was rebranded as ITV Granada. [4] The channel was renamed again as ITV Choice on 25 March 2013. [5]
On 20 August 2019, it suddenly ceased broadcasting in many markets across the Middle East, Malta and Asia, while transmission in South Africa was unaffected. [6] On 18 March 2020, it was announced that the channel would cease broadcasting in Africa on 4 June of that year. [7] Tipping Point was the last programme to be broadcast on the channel before closure in Africa.
In December 2022, an ITV Choice branded FAST channel was launched on the Samsung TV Plus platform in Australia in December 2022, which airs various ITV Studios-owned programmes. [8] In October 2023, it was renamed as Entertain by ITV Studios. [9]
It primarily carried ITV and other UK programming, produced by ITV Studios and other independent production companies. Key programmes include Coronation Street , Emmerdale , Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway , Dancing on Ice , I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! , The Jonathan Ross Show , Doc Martin , The Chase , Tipping Point , among others.
ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network. Its main shareholders were Carlton Communications plc and Granada plc, owners of multiple licences of the ITV network. Starting as ONdigital in 1998, the service was rebranded as ITV Digital in July 2001.
ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man. From 1956 to 1968 it broadcast to both the north west and Yorkshire on weekdays only, as ABC Weekend Television was its weekend counterpart. Granada's parent company Granada plc later bought several other regional ITV stations and, in 2004, merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc.
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This is a timeline of the history of the British television network ITV.
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