Showcase TV

Last updated
Showcase TV
Country United Kingdom
Programming
Picture format 16:19, 576i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner Information TV
History
Launched27 August 2008;13 years ago (2008-08-27)
Replaced AnimeCentral
Closed3 August 2009;12 years ago (2009-08-03)
Replaced by True Entertainment
Rebranded to
Ayozat TV (28 October 2021)

Showcase TV was a British television channel owned and run by Information TV [1] and it used to offer smaller specialist channels a place to showcase their programmes, sometimes leading to a full channel launch. It also used as a placeholder channel and had been used to hold on to lucrative EPG slots from defunct channels which were then sold on at a later date. It's operations were terminated and restarted several times over the past years. [2]

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In October 2021, it was rebranded to Ayozat TV.

History

Showcase TV 2008 lineup

The Showcase TV started on 27 August 2008, although it did not receive an official launch but instead, and went from AnimeCentral to Pop Girl program block straight away. It showed a mixture of different content from other CSC Media Group channels such as Pop Girl, Chart Show TV, True Movies 2 and had retained some AnimeCentral programming, in its own block between 04:00 and 06:00 with repeats of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex . Its license first appeared on the Ofcom website in January 2007 (initially named Toon TV, this was changed to AnimeCentral in June 2007, to True Entertainment in June 2008 and to Showcase TV on August 26, 2008). [3] [4]

The original launch lineup for Showcase TV was a Pop Girl simulcast from 6am to 4pm, a Chart Show TV simulcast from 4pm to 8pm, a True Movies 2 simulcast from 8pm to 12am (two movies) and an AnimeCentral block from 12am to 3am, with the airtime from 3am to 6am sold for teleshopping. [4] [5]

This later changed; the teleshopping block was dropped, and the anime block was shortened and moved to 4am, such that the True Movies 2 section could extend to carry four movies between 8pm and 4am. At this point the simulcast of Pop Girl was replaced with a simulcast of Kix!. This new lineup then remained in place until the True Entertainment relaunch. [6]

StartEndChannel name
06:0016:00 Kix!
16:0020:00 Chart Show TV
20:0004:00 True Movies 2
04:0006:00 AnimeCentral

Re-branded as True Entertainment

Showcase TV was replaced with True Entertainment. The rebranding was scheduled for 1 July 2009, but was later put "on hold until further notice". [7] [8] The change eventually took place a month later, on 3 August 2009. From that date, simulcasting of content from other CSC channels ceased, and True Entertainment launched its own schedule.

Showcase TV reappears under new ownership

Information TV then relaunched the channel by renaming the Quest service from Discovery EMEA in October 2009. [9]

By 2010 it had expanded with a sister channel "Showcase 2". [10]

Rebranded as Ayozat TV

Showcase TV was rebranded as Ayozat TV to match with the Ayozat.com OTT platform. [11]

Timeline of EPG changes

Because of its nature as a placeholder channel it has come and gone many times from various TV platforms. The following is a partial history of the changes constructed from a change log on the Digital Spy discussion forum. [12]

Timeline of EPG changes
DateChange made
2010-07-05Moved to 403 on Sky
2012-09-19Moved from 402 to 401 on Sky
2013-03-19Showcase 2 launches on Freesat [13]
2014-10-06Showcase becomes Irish TV [14]
2015-08-29Appears on Freeview on ch254 as IPTV stream
2016-01-21Removed from Freesat
2016-01-21Removed from 402 on Sky (to become "keep it country" the following week)
2016-01-29showcase+1 launched on Sky 279
2016-03-21Showcase moved to Sky 212
2016-06-20Showcase returns to Freesat on channel 161 [15] [16]
2018-08-02Moved to Channel 455 on Sky
2018-08-10Removed from Freesat again
2019-01-07Moved to Sky 192 and Freesat 161
2019-02-04Returned to Freesat 161
2020-01-31Removed from Freesat again
2020-11-23Moved to Sky 191
2021-10-28Rebranded to Ayozat

Showcase TV (Classic Media Group)

Classic Media Group, based at Shepperton Studios, launched their Showcase TV channel as a placeholder on Sky channel 181 in March 2017. As of April 2021, Showcase TV had moved to Sky channel 191 and was showing the following programmes: [17]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Official Showcase TV facebook page". Official Showcase TV facebook page. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
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