UKTV

One of the United Kingdom's largest TV companies, UKTV is a joint venture between the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, and the cable television company Flextech.

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UKTV's channels are available via satellite and cable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. In the UK, on digital terrestrial television, UKTV History and UKTV BrightIdeas are available on the Freeview platform, and selected parts of UKTV Gold, UKTV Style and UKTV Food are available through Top Up TV.

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Most programmes on UKTV's channels are repeat broadcasts of BBC productions (although the entertainment channels also feature programmes made by other companies) and the channels themselves are operated by BBC Broadcast (recently bought by Creative Broadcast Services from the BBC) and played out from BBC Television Centre in London.

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None of the UKTV channels operates in widescreen — programmes made in widescreen are always horizontally cropped into — and factual programmes are almost always cut for commercial timing although dramas and comedies are not.

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BBC: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It produces programmes and information services: broadcasting on television, radio, and the Internet....

BBC Worldwide: BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. BBC Enterprises had been operating the commercial exploitation of BBC programmes and other properties for the previous tw...

Cable television: :Cable TV redirects here. For the Hong Kong-based cable television network, see Cable TV (Hong Kong)....