UKTV Bright Ideas
former television channel by UKTV
UKTV Bright Ideas was a digital television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, which was part of the UKTV family of channels. The channel broadcast a variety of programmes, often originally aired on UKTV Style, UKTV Food and UKTV Gardens, and are thus mainly cookery, DIY and gardening. The channel broadcast from 6 am to 6 pm every day, timesharing with Ftn.
History
On 3 October 2002, the channel was announced under the name of UK HomeStyle, as part of a preparation of networks on the Freeview service. Unlike the other free-to-air offering from UKTV – UK History, UK HomeStyle would be a highlights network that would showcase programming from UK Style and UK Food for the Freeview audience, offering them what is shown on their paid networks. On 12 December, it was announced that the channel would officially launch as UK Bright Ideas, due to trademark issues with the original name and its other planned name UK Homes.
The channel was launched on 15 January 2003. The channel was initially only shown on the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, but later expanded to air on Sky Digital, NTL and Telewest.
Along with the rest of the UKTV network, the "UK" prefix was changed to "UKTV" on 8 March 2004 and it became UKTV Bright Ideas.
Closure
On 8 August 2007, it was announced that UKTV would replace UKTV Bright Ideas with a relaunched version of UKTV G2 on the Freeview platform.
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