For a large part of the research towards the 'Top 10' design production for digital project, we must evaluate the appropriate television channel for our chosen subject, in accordance to subject matter as well as target audience. With my subject matter of 'PENGUINS' I have created a condensed list of channels that may be appropriate for my 6-11 age target audience, and have gone on to research them further. The list includes:
BBC ONE
BBC TWO
BBC FOUR
CBBC
CBEEBIES
CITV
DISCOVERY
MILKSHAKE (CHANNEL 5)
NAT GEO (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)
NAT GEO WILD
ANIMAL PLANET
BBC ONE
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was later renamed BBC tv until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon it was known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997.
The channel's annual budget for 2011/12 is £1,166.6 million. Along with the BBC's other domestic television stations, and many European broadcasters (and some in Asia), it is funded principally by the television licence fee,
and therefore shows uninterrupted programming with no commercial
advertising at any time. It is currently the most watched television
channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for
ratings leadership, ITV1.
The current channel controller for BBC One is Danny Cohen, formerly controller of BBC Three. Cohen replaced Jay Hunt following her departure from the BBC in late 2010 to join Channel 4, where she took up her position in January 2011. Jana Bennett, head of BBC Vision, took temporary control of BBC One between Hunt's departure and Cohen's appointment. Cohen briefly held controller positions of both BBC One and BBC Three until former ITV digital channels head Zai Bennett was confirmed as the new controller of BBC Three.
Programming
BBC One’s remit is to be the BBC’s most popular mixed-genre television service across the UK, offering a wide range of high quality programmes. It should be the BBC’s primary outlet for major UK and international events and it should reflect the whole of the UK in its output. A very high proportion of its programmes should be original productions.
- Eastenders 16,410,000
- World Cup 2010 England Vs Germany 15,810,000
- Strictly Come Dancing 14,280,000
- Come Fly With Me 12,470,000
- Doctor Who 12,110,000
Repeats made up 8.4% of peak programming in 2010/11, up from 8.0% for 2008/09. Programming on this channel costs an average of £162,900 per hour.
With a mission to provide big programmes for all licence-fee payers,
it has sport, news, current affairs, and documentaries. It has
historically broadcast children's programmes (now taken from CBBC and CBeebies).
The channel remains one of the principal television channels in the
United Kingdom and provides 2,508 annual hours of news and weather,
1,880 hours of factual and learning, 1,036 hours of drama, 672 hours of
children's, 670 hours of sport, 654 hours of film, 433 hours of
entertainment, 159 hours of current affairs, 92 hours of religion and 82
hours of music and arts.
2,508 annual hours of news and weather (293 in peak, 1,049 of BBC News simulcasts) are provided by regular news programmes BBC Breakfast, the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten
each including BBC regional news programmes. All three main news
bulletins have a lead over their rival programmes on ITV and other
terrestrial or cable channels. During the weekend period, three separate
bulletins around these three time periods are broadcast and vary in
length from 10–25 minutes. BBC One has broadcast overnight simulcasts
from the BBC News channel since 1997; the latter in turn simulcasts the
majority of all regular BBC One bulletins.
Each year 159 hours of current affairs programmes are broadcast on BBC One, including Panorama and Watchdog. Politics is also covered, with programmes including Question Time and This Week shown. Crimewatch, a programme appealing for help in unsolved crimes, is broadcast monthly.
Whilst nature documentaries such as Planet Earth
are the most familiar part of the 1,880 annual BBC One hours of factual
and learning, this also includes lifestyle-format daytime programmes
and a number of reality television formats and the One Life strand.
BBC One broadcasts 1,036 hours of drama each year, more than any other BBC channel. There are four half-hour episodes of EastEnders each week (not shown on Wednesdays), with an omnibus episode at the weekend, plus hospital dramas Casualty and Holby City. Other popular dramas on BBC One include crime dramas such as New Tricks, a programme of which even episode repeats have beaten ITV ratings on numerous occasions.
BBC One has traditionally been the home of children's television, Blue Peter had been broadcast on the channel prior to the Children's BBC strand, and sections such as Watch with Mother airing previously on the channel. This became more pronounced with the launch of Children's BBC, later renamed "CBBC".
This new strand was broadcast primarily on BBC One in the late
afternoons, as well as Saturday and Sunday mornings also such as Going Live! and Live & Kicking, each lasting two to three hours. The launch in 2002 of dedicated digital channels for this content —the CBBC Channel and CBeebies—did
not affect this provision. Combined with BBC Two, the channel broadcast
2,195 hours of children's programmes in 2010, mostly in the late
afternoons on weekdays. Saturday morning children's programming moved to BBC Two in 2006 following a three month trial.
Sports coverage on BBC One includes Premier League football highlights on Match of the Day, The Championships, Wimbledon, horse racing such as the Grand National, the London Marathon, and other international athletics and swimming events, the Olympic Games, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Snooker tournaments, and more. The BBC shows The Football League Show for Football League highlights and League Cup coverage. Formula 1 motor racing is also shown, Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's main race.
On 18 January 2010, the BBC introduced a local Football League highlight show called Late Kick Off. The BBC also shows the Football League Cup final, and ten Football League matches live from the 2009/10 season. The BBC showed the 2010 FIFA World Cup, splitting the group stage matches with ITV. The BBC had first pick of matches from the second round.
British and international films are broadcast for 654 hours each year on BBC One. This is mainly late-night fillers with some box office hits at Christmas and holiday periods. Films are sometimes used to fill the Saturday evening slot when no sport or entertainment programmes are due to be aired.
Entertainment programming on BBC One includes game shows such as the National Lottery, Total Wipeout, Strictly Come Dancing and chat shows such as The Graham Norton Show.
The annual 92 hours of religious programming comprise weekly editions of recorded Songs of Praise, Christian services and other shows from independent production companies. Mentorn Oxford produces Heart and Soul, described as “a new multi-faith programme featuring a panel and a studio audience”, followed by Life from the Loft which is made by the Leeds-based company True North. In 2005 BBC One was criticised for reducing the amount of religious programming, previously 101 hours per year.
BBC One broadcasts many comedy programmes, often on Friday nights. These have included the stand-up comedy show Live at the Apollo, sitcom Outnumbered, and satirical quiz show Have I Got News For You. Saturday evening is also a popular slot for a comedy show such as Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and The Armstrong and Miller Show.
As the weekly popular music chart programme Top of the Pops was discontinued (except for the Christmas Day edition), BBC One broadcast 49 hours of music and arts programming in 2010. The majority of this was Imagine, presented by Alan Yentob , and classical music concerts such as the BBC Proms.
BBC One's daytime line-up was a major factor in it overtaking ITV as
the most popular channel in 2000, a position it has held ever since. The
morning daytime line-up consists of lifestyle shows, such as Homes Under the Hammer and Bargain Hunt, the afternoons contain drama with daily soap Doctors and classic US drama, such as Diagnosis: Murder. Sometimes a drama such as Land Girls is shown in the afternoons.
Between 15:05 and 17:05 is the CBeebies/CBBC broadcasting strand,
with its own visual identity. Historically, BBC One's most popular
daytime programme was Neighbours, with audience figures approaching five million. On 11 February 2008, BBC One dropped Neighbours and the programme has since been broadcast on Channel 5. In its place the quiz show The Weakest Link, moved from BBC Two, later replaced in 2011 by Pointless.
Quotas
For the first fifty years of its existence, with the exception of
films and imported programmes from countries such as the United States
and Australia, almost all the channel's output was produced by the BBC's
in-house production departments. This changed following the Broadcasting Act 1990, which required that 25% of the BBC's television output be out-sourced to independent production companies.
By 2004 many popular BBC One shows were made for the channel by
independents, but the in-house production departments continued to
contribute heavily to the schedule.
Although the statutory target remains 25%, 33% of output was made by independent production companies in 2010/11. The Quota of original programming in peak times is set at 90%, however 100% of peak programming was original in 2010/11. Over the whole day, the total for the same year was 89%, against a quota of 70%.
Presentation
BBC One's identity has been symbolised by a globe shown on its idents for much of its existence.
In 1962 this was represented as a map of the UK shown between
programmes, but in 1963 the globe appeared, changing in style and
appearance over the next 39 years.
Most notably, on 18 February 1985, the "Computer Originated World"
was introduced. This was a computer-animated globe with the land
coloured gold and the sea a transparent blue, giving the impression of a
glass globe. On 4 October 1997, the globe became a red, orange and
yellow hot-air balloon, coloured to resemble a globe. It was filmed
flying around various places in the UK.
On 29 March 2002 the globe was replaced by a series of visual identities, "idents", consisting of people dancing in various styles. These were replaced on 7 October 2006 by the present 'circle' idents. According to the BBC, the circle symbol both represents togetherness and acts as a link to former idents.
Regional variations
BBC One has individual continuity and opt-outs for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each variant maintains the BBC One logo with the addition of the country name beneath it.
In England, each region has an individual regional news
and current affairs programme opt-out as well as a limited amount of
continuity. During these opt-outs, the region name is displayed as with
the national variations, beneath the main channel logo. UK Today,
a news programme, was shown nationally to digital viewers in place of
regional programmes when they were unavailable to broadcast on analogue
television. The programme was discontinued in 2002 and replaced by a
transmission of BBC London News until all BBC regions were made available digitally.
BBC One Scotland has the greatest level of variation from the generic network, owing to BBC Scotland scheduling Scottish programming on the main BBC Scotland channel, rather than on BBC Two. BBC One Scotland variations include the soap opera River City and the football programme Sportscene, the inclusion of which causes network programming to be displaced or replaced.
BBC One Wales was considered a separate channel by the BBC as early as its launch in the mid-1960s, appearing as BBC Wales.
Accessibility
The BBC announced in May 2008 that it had achieved its aim for all programming to have subtitles for viewers with hearing difficulties. The BBC also offers audio description on some popular BBC One programmes
for visually impaired-viewers. The percentage of the BBC's total
television output with audio description available is 10%, having been
increased from 8% in 2008.
High-definition
BBC One HD, a simulcast of BBC One in high-definition (HD), launched on 3 November 2010 at 19:00. The channel simulcasts a network version of BBC One in High Definition, with HD versions of programmes including Holby City, The One Show, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, The Weakest Link and Doctor Who. EastEnders
was also made available in HD as from Christmas Day 2010. All
programmes still made in standard-definition are upscaled on the channel
and it is intended that by 2012 the vast majority of the channel's
output will be in high-definition.
BBC One HD, however, does not offer regional variations, and
therefore the channel cannot broadcast during regional programming
slots, most noticeably the local news programmes. The BBC Trust admitted
that this is due to technical and financial constraints,
but the BBC announced on 6 June 2011 that the national variations of
BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC One Scotland and BBC One Wales, would
become available in 2012.
BBC One HD is available on all digital television platforms offering HD channels – Freesat, Freeview HD, Sky, Smallworld Cable, UPC Ireland and Virgin Media. It is available in addition to the existing BBC HD channel, which continues to broadcast HD programmes from the BBC's other television channels.
On 3 November 2011, BBC One HD launched on Sky Ireland on channel 234 or 141 for HD pack subscribers.
* Although there is popular nature documentaries and programming on the BBC One channel, I feel, all in all, that it may be a little too general for my quite specific subject matter, and the target audience may not necessarily be reached with a more adult-orientated audience and market in terms of existing programming.
BBC TWO
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television license, and is therefore commercial-free. It is a comparatively well funded public service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most current public service networks worldwide.
It was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 20 April 1964 based in London),
and Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour,
from 1 July 1967. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and
more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to
date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on
BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, now tend to appear on BBC Four instead.
Programming
BBC Two’s remit is to be a mixed-genre channel appealing to a broad adult audience with programmes of depth and substance. It should carry the greatest amount and range of knowledge-building programming of any BBC television channel, complemented by distinctive comedy, drama and arts programming.
BBC Two's remit historically was one screening programmes targeting
art, drama and some comedy, and appealing to audiences not already
served by BBC1 or ITV. Over its first thirty or so years the channel
developed a reputation for screening highly praised and prestigious
drama series, amongst these Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) or 1996's, critically acclaimed Our Friends in the North. The channels "highbrow" profile is also in part attributable to a long history of demanding documentaries of all types, beginning with Civilisation and The Ascent of Man. Like the early Channel 4, BBC2 also established for itself a reputation as a champion of independent and international cinema, under the Screen 2 brand.
The channel has sometimes been judged, increasingly in more recent
years, to have moved away from this original role and to have moved
closer to the mainstream. Since the launch of the digital-only BBC Four,
the BBC has been accused in particular of shifting its more highbrow
output to the new channel, which a minority (7.5% in the final quarter
of 2010)
of viewers do not receive. BBC Four's remit is very similar to that of
the earlier remit of BBC2, and contains a lot of documentaries and arts
programming. It has been perceived by some that this strategy is to
allow BBC Two to show more popular programmes and to secure higher
ratings. Since 2004 there have been some signs of an attempt to return closer to parts of BBC Two's earlier output with the arts strand The Culture Show. Its most popular programme at the moment is Top Gear.
Currently, a lot of BBC Two's output have previously, or subsequently
been shown on other channels. Some of these programmes are repeats of
popular or flagship programmes from BBC Four in a late night strand,
originally called BBC Four on Two but now unbranded, for the
benefit of audiences without access to BBC Four. Other programmes are
moved to the channel as a result of their success on BBC Three or Four, so that subsequent series are well received. An example of this is the BBC Three series Torchwood
that was transferred to the channel following the success of the first
series. BBC Two is also used as a testing ground for programmes prior to
their moving to the flagship BBC One: such examples include Have I Got News for You.
Another founding part of BBC Two was to provide educational and community
programming on the BBC, as part of its public service remit. The
educational section of this commitment saw BBC2 broadcast a large amount
of programming for the Open University, who co-produced programming with the corporation, and saw the channel broadcast BBC Schools programmes from 1983 until the programmes were transferred to the BBC Learning Zone in 2010.
As a result of the channel's commitment to community broadcasting, the channel produced the symbolic Open Space
series, a strand developed in the early 1970s in which members of the
public would be allotted half an hour of television time, and given a
level of editorial and technical training in order to produce for
themselves a film on an issue most important to them. BBC2's Community Programme Unit kept this aspect of the channel's tradition alive into the 1990s in the form of Video Diaries and later Video Nation. The Community Programmes Unit was disbanded in 2004.
Some BBC Two programming is simulcast or repeated in High definition on separate channel BBC HD.
Presentation
As well as programmes, BBC Two has also proved memorable for its numerous idents
— various short films shown in between programme junctions that serve
as the channel identity. Nearly all of the identity packages used since
the channels launch in 1964 have featured a prominent numeral '2' in the
design. Notable designs include the electronic double striped 2, the white TWO ident: the only ident not to use a numeral '2' and most notably the 1991 '2's.
The 1991 '2's featured a serif numeral '2' being at the centre of an,
initially art related scene; however the idents moved away from this
style later on as the stations style changed. The expansive set of
idents from 1991 to 2001 — lasting over a decade — are generally
regarded as the best idents ever produced for a television channel; they
ended in November 2001. The BBC corporate logo was updated within the
idents in October 1997, though the idents moved away from the original
viridian colour scheme in these latter years. The subsequent presentation style was introduced on 19 November 2001 and kept the same figure '2', but in a yellow background and given a personality.
The current presentational style
feature the theme of a "Window on the World", with the '2' numeral
providing that view. Introduced on 18 February 2007, the new look also
saw the channel adopt a new teal coloured box logo, featuring the BBC logo above the name 'TWO' in the font Avenir.
Regional variations
BBC Two also has regional variations in the nations: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Nations versions of BBC Two share the same idents, but with the nation name in the BBC Two box. BBC Two Scotland shows a lot of specifically Scottish programming on the channel, as well as its sister channel BBC One Scotland, and the schedules are often mixed around to match. BBC Two Northern Ireland and BBC Two Wales
both have the option to opt out, however they generally stick to the
network schedule, only opting out a couple of times each week. Until
December 2008, BBC Wales broadcast a special, digital-only channel, BBC 2W,
which contained more opt-outs than analogue-only BBC Two Wales. BBC
Scotland occasionally broadcast Gaelic-language programmes under the
banner BBC Two Alba.
In England, each of the English regions has the option to opt out of
the network programming on the analogue feed, and replace it with local
programming. However this is usually only done in exceptional
circumstances, as all regular regional programming has been transferred
to BBC One, and the English regions are not available on digital on BBC Two. There is no specific BBC Two England, this role is fulfilled by the network BBC Two.
Accessibility
The BBC announced in May 2008 that it had achieved its aim for all programming to have subtitles for viewers with hearing difficulties. These are available on the Ceefax and BBC Red Button services. The BBC also offers audio description on some popular programmes
for visually impaired-viewers. The percentage of the BBC's total
television output with audio description available is 10%, having been
increased from 8% in 2008.
High-definition
Currently, programmes from BBC Two are shown in HD on the dedicated BBC HD channel, alongside programmes from BBC's Three and Four, as well as some select series from CBBC and CBeebies. However, in plans outlined by the director general Mark Thompson on 6 October 2011, BBC HD will close to be replaced by a high definition simulcast of BBC Two. This BBC Two HD will work much the same way as BBC One HD currently.
This move allows the corporation to save £2.1 million, used to count
towards their budget defecit following the freezing of the license fee
and the additional financial responsibility of addition services.
* Again, much like the BBC One channel, I feel that BBC Two may be a little too general for my rather specific subject matter- would be okay for CBBC Channel, but again, perhaps could find a more suitable target channel elsewhere?
BBC FOUR
BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable.
BBC Four launched on 2 March 2002,
transmitting a schedule between 19:00 to 4:00. It shows "a wide variety
of programmes including drama, documentaries, music, international
film, comedy and current affairs ... an alternative to programmes on the
mainstream TV channels."
It has a schedule dominated by repeats but is required by its licence
to broadcast at least 100 hours of new arts and music programmes, 110
hours of new factual programmes and premier 20 international films each
year.
History
BBC Four launched on 2 March 2002 at 19.00 GMT, having been delayed from the original planned 2001 launch. The channel replaced BBC Knowledge,
an educational and cultural channel which had undergone many changes
throughout its lifetime; the latter of which consisted of documentaries
and art programming: essentially a test of the new BBC Four schedule.
BBC Four would rebrand this channel, and bring it into line with the
well recognised BBC One and Two brands at the same time. Planning for
the new channel, along with the new BBC Three,
had been in progress since October 2000; however the incumbent
government delayed approving the new BBC digital plans. The BBC Four
plans were approved earlier, and as a result launched before BBC Three.
BBC Four was different from the old BBC Knowledge: the channel would
be more heavily promoted with more new and original programming and the
channel wouldn't be broadcast 24 hours a day. This is due to the fact
that on the Freeview digital terrestrial platform, BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed stream in Multiplex B that timeshares with the CBeebies
channel. As a result, BBC Four broadcasts from 7 pm to about 4 am every
day, with an hours down-time and promotions for CBeebies, before
CBeebies channel runs from 6 am until 7 pm.
Organisation
BBC Four forms part of the BBC Vision
group, and as a result, the channel controller is answerable to the
head of this executive department: George Entwistle, as of 2011.
Entwistle himself was acting controller of BBC Four for most of 2007.
The channel direction is determined by the channels remit, set by royal
charter and the corporation's governing body the BBC Trust, and by the channel controller. These are:
Programming
BBC Four’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts, music and culture. It should provide an ambitious range of innovative, high quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects.
— BBC Four Remit
The first evening's BBC Four programmes were simulcast on BBC Two. BBC Four is notable for first showing Larry David's Seinfeld follow-up, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Armando Iannucci's cutting political satire, The Thick of It, The Chaser's War on Everything, Flight of the Conchords, Mad Men and Danish thriller, The Killing.
The channel broadcasts a mixture of art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and non-English language productions such as films from the Artificial Eye catalogue, the French thriller Spiral and the Swedish detective series Wallander. BBC Four further supports foreign language films with its annual World Cinema Award which has been running since 2004.
On weekdays at 19.00, the channel shows a 30-minute global news programme called World News Today, simulcast with and produced by BBC World News. It screens a number of documentaries such as The Century of the Self and The Trials of Henry Kissinger. The channel is also home to many political travel shows such as Holidays in the Axis of Evil which features investigative journalism.
Drama has given the channel some of its most popular programmes, with The Alan Clark Diaries (2003) and Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006) being among the highest rated, with over 800,000 viewers. The 18 March 2008, broadcast of The Curse of Steptoe
brought the channel its highest audience figures, estimated as 1.41
million viewers, a 7% share of multichannel audiences between 9pm and
10.05pm, based on overnight returns. The official audience figures for the broadcast, including time-shifting, were later published as 1,625,000. Another notable production was a live re-make of the 1953 science-fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment,
adapted from the original scripts into a single, two-hour version
(though on the night it in fact underran considerably, lasting less than
1 hour 40 minutes), broadcast on the evening of Saturday 2 April 2005.
Discounting BBC Four's previous live relays of theatrical Shakespeare productions, this was the first live made-for-television drama to be broadcast by the BBC for twenty years.
Another notable programme broadcast on BBC Four is Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
which contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and
commentary on how television is produced. The show is presented by
broadcaster Charlie Brooker.
Some output from BBC Four (documentaries rather than foreign films)
was for a time repeated on BBC Two in a 'BBC Four on Two' branded area,
although this was often in a late night broadcast slot after Newsnight and has since been discontinued.
At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, BBC Four won the Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year award in 2004 and 2006.
Programmes
Original programming
- BBC Four Sessions
- Singer-Songwriters at the BBC
- If Walls Could Talk
- Britain's Best Drives
- Only Connect
- Birds Britania
- Britain by Bike
- Churches: How To Read Them
- Shock and Awe: The Life of Electricity
- Elegance and Decadancy: The Age of the Regency
- The Story of the National Grid
- Walter's War
- To Kill a Mockingbird at 50
- HG Wells: War with the World
- The Sky At Night (originally on BBC One)
- World News Today (simulcast on BBC Four and BBC World News)
- The Secret Life of Ice
- Hattie
- The Curse of Steptoe
- How to Build a Dinosaur
- Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
- The Great War
- Sandhurst
Imports
- Wallander
- Spiral
- Mad Men
- The Slap
- The Killing
- Il Divo
- Inspector Montalbano
Domestic repeats
- Life
- Planet Earth
- The Blue Planet
- Yes Minister
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Juliet Bravo
- Last Of The Summer Wine
- Sykes
- Butterflies
- Top of the Pops
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- The Magic Roundabout
- Batman
- Fawlty Towers
- The Bear Family and Me
- The Life of Mammals
- The Onedin Line
- Tales of Beatrix Potter
- Walking with Dinosaurs
- Walking with Beasts
- Casualty 1906
- Casualty 1907
- Cranford
Films
- South Pacific
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- The Thirty-Nine Steps
- The Lady Vanishes
Presentation
The channel's initial series of idents
were generated dynamically reflecting the frequencies of the continuity
announcers' voice or of backing music and were designed by Lambie-Nairn. As a result, no two idents were ever the same. The first continuity announcer was Zeb Soanes.
When the channel first started airing, it used the slogan "Everyone
Needs A Place To Think", but the BBC stopped using this several months
after the launch. However the BBC Four logo and above slogan can be
found, engraved on benches along the South Bank in London, between the London Eye and Waterloo Bridge.
In September 2005, the channel began showing new idents comprising a
central BBC Four logo surrounded by four quadrants which show different
stages of the same footage thus making for a sort of optical illusion;
for example, a swimming pool where a person on an inflatable ring
appears in the bottom-left corner, though ripples don't enter the
remaining quarters. Although the image appears as one at the start of
the ident by the end it is clearly four separate images.
* Again, although a great platform channel, I don't think that my subject matter and/or proposed programme is really appropriate for BBC Four, which is far more dependent on cultural and arts screenings for an adult audience.
CBBC
CBBC is a BBC television channel aimed at 6 to 12 year olds. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. Launched on 11 February 2002, it broadcasts from 7am to 7pm on Freeview, cable, IPTV and digital satellite, occupying the same bandwidth as, but a different channel position from BBC Three. CBeebies is its sister service for younger children.
Programming
The remit of CBBC is to provide a wide range of high quality, distinctive content for 6-12 year olds, including drama, entertainment, comedy, animation, news and factual. The great majority of this content should be produced in the UK. CBBC should provide a stimulating, creative and enjoyable environment that is also safe and trusted. The service should have a particular focus on informal learning, with an emphasis on encouraging participation.
The CBBC channel's programming output is very similar to the strand
shown on BBC One and Two. The channel often complements this strand with
programmes shown earlier than on the terrestrial channels, repeats or
whole series shown in a day, alongside other exclusive commisions.
Class TV
As part of the channel's original remit, the channel originally
needed to show 100 hours a year of factual and schools programmes. The service managed this by introducing the Class TV
strand to the channel, which would air educational programming for
approximately two hours each day in the late morning, with normal
programming resuming in the early afternoon. Much of this programming
was old BBC Schools
programming shown, in some cases, decades before and which was for the
most part still relevant. Very little new schools programmes were
commisioned.
Presentation
The CBBC channel has had relatively similar presentation to that of
its strand counterpart. The logo has consistently remained the same as
the service; green coloured blobs at the beginning of its life and the
current green and white logo since September 2007. The channel has
mainly utilised presenters from the main service, with a few presenters
appearing mostly on the new channel; Gemma Hunt and Anne Foy
being notable examples and appearing consistently until August 2007. At
the beginning of September 2007, along with the relaunch, the same
presenters of the CBBC channel would also feature on the CBBC on BBC One
and Two.
When the channel launched, presentation was located in TC2 at BBC Television Centre, where the channel shared studio facilities with the channel's original magazine show Xchange. This changed in Autumn 2004, when the channel moved to TC9 following the normal CBBC links move to TC10;
however this was changed in March 2006 so that all CBBC and CBBC
channel links were located in TC9. A further change was to take place on
4 December 2006 when all output moved to a Chroma key set within TC12,
and was presented by only one presenter. This short live decision
lasted until the 2007 relaunch, which involved a new 'office' set being
constructed, initially in TC12 and then in a new studio facility in the
East Tower of Television Centre.
The channel has now moved to MediaCityUK and is presented from there.
Other services
CBBC Extra
CBBC Extra is a free interactive television service from CBBC provided by the BBC Red Button.
It is accessible from the CBBC channel by pressing red and then
selecting CBBC Extra from the main menu. It can also be accessed from
any other BBC channel by pressing red and going to page number 570. The
service differs across digital platforms, for example Sky viewers can access a video loop. Its availability on Freeview is dependent upon BBC Red Button not showing other interactive services, such as major sports events coverage.
The service offers numerous features including a CBBC Quiz, Horoscopes,
Agony Uncle Chris, viewer content and jokes and other interactive
elements.
CBBC Online
The CBBC website provides a wide range of activities for viewers aged
6–14, such as games, videos, puzzles, printable pages, pre-moderated
message boards and frequently updated news feeds. It contains pages for
the majority of its current programming with various content on each.
There are also micro-sites from Newsround and Sportsround, providing children with news and sport, as well as the CBBC iPlayer to replay CBBC programmes for up to seven days.
* For me, CBBC would be a great platform for my title sequence, idents and proposed tv programme 'Top 10 Things To Know About Penguins...' with existing past and present programmes with wildlife content such as 'Deadly 60' and 'The Really Wild Show'... however, perhaps it would be more suited to an animal-specific channel? The target audience is perfect, but the content and programming could perhaps be more specific.
CBEEBIES
CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air
domestic British channel and used for international varients supported
by advertising, subscription or both. The brand was first launched on 11
February 2002.
The channel has been nominated for, and won, many awards. At the BAFTA Children's Awards it has won awards in every year from 2002 to 2009 (apart from 2003), including Best Pre-school Live Action Series awards in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. It has also won Best Schools Programme – 0–5 years awards (or equivalent) from the Royal Television Society from 2004 to 2007. It was also included in the United States on Dish Network to the present, but in a Mexican Spanish version, it is CBeebies en español.
Programming
CBeebies offers a mix of entertainment and educational programming.
The channel's schedule is deliberately the same every weekday, with a
different schedule at weekends, so that children can know what is on
instinctively. The schedule also includes signed
programmes, shown in the UK between 14:00 and 17:00 on weekends. The
international channels also show many programmes broadcast on the UK
channel, however some include programmes unique to that service.
Presentation
The links between programmes on CBeebies are primarily achieved through the use of in-vision continuity,
using presenters to interact with the children. In the UK, links are
pre-recorded rather than broadcast live, as is the case on sister
channel CBBC. They were originally pre recorded from studio TC0 at BBC Television Centre in London, however moved out in 2008 to Teddington Studios, and returned briefly in 2010. From September 2011, the links have been based at the BBC's Northern base at MediaCityUK in Salford, Manchester,
following the move of the BBC Childrens department there. International
variants feature broadcast links produced either in the corresponding
country, or from a central base.
Presenters
Many of the presenters used have histories as characters on other services or on children's programmes.
In the UK, presenters seen on the channel and the stranded service include Sidney Sloane, in place since 2002, Andy Day, since 2007, Cerrie Burnell and Alex Winters, since 2009, and Katy Ashworth, since 2011.
The international variants feature different personalities per
broadcast region. In Australia, Tara Colegrave is the main presenter
since 2008, while in Hong Kong and Singapore Pui Fan Lee is the main presenter having transferred there from the UK channel in 2008. The Latin American variant uses Roser Cabañas, present on-screen since 2009, with the Polish channel showcasing Aneta Bożena Piotrowska as main presenter since 2008. The South African channel utilises Sidney Sloane, who has presented for the channel alongside the UK version since 2009.
Previous presenters include:
- Sue Monroe (2002–2006)
- Nicole Davis (2003–2006)
- Justin Fletcher (2006–2007)
- Sarah Jane Honeywell (2006–2007)
- Eva Alexander (2006)
- Chris Jarvis (2002–2009) He now broadcasts on Show Me Show Me.
- Pui Fan Lee (2002–2009) She now also broadcasts on Show Me Show Me.
- Mr Tumble (2007)
Stranded Segments
In the UK, the CBeebies channel and terrestrial service use stranded
segments throughout the day. Each segment features its own presenting
team and feature special idents to denote the strand. Originally each
weekday was divided into five segments, each presented by one of the
original five "core presenters" namely Chris, Nicole, Pui, Sid and Sue,
with each given a core theme (for instance Sid's segment included
"building and making" programmes such as Bob the Builder,
Nicole's included animal programmes and so on). The segmentation was
later dispensed with: only the Bedtime Hour segment was retained. In
recent years the segments were reintroduced to denote the time of day
and the levels of activity. These segments are:
- Get, Set, Go! - Early Morning schedule between 06.00 and 09.00 and hosted by Andy Day and Sidney Sloane. Includes programmes such as Tikkabilla, Pingu, Postman Pat, Tweenies, Everything's Rosie, Chuggington & Tommy Zoom
- Discover and Do - Late Morning and Early Afternoon weekdays between 09.00 and 12.00 and between 13.00 and 15.30 and hosted by Alex Winters. The strand is aimed at young children who would not be attending school or pre-school.
- Lunch Time - Broadcast between 12.00 and 13.00 and hosted by Cerrie Burnell and Sidney Sloane.
- Big Fun Time - Late afternoon weekdays between 15.30 and 18.00 and hosted by Sidney Sloane. This strand aims at the higher end of it's remit, airing programming for the children who have recently returned from school.
- Bedtime Hour - The final hour of CBeebies broadcasting between 18.00 and 19.00. The original stranded section of the channel, Bedtime Hour features calm-natured programmes, such as In The Night Garden, 3rd & Bird, 64 Zoo Lane, Waybuloo & Charlie & Lola, with story telling both within and out of the programmes and closes with a final song, "The Time Has Come to Say Goodnight", as transmission closes.
Songs
The UK channel utilises song and music as a presentational device,
often using them to teach basic knowledge or to herald the start of a
stranded segment. Regular songs currently or previously broadcast are
included below:
- What's the Day?' - The start of each of the original five segments was accompanied by this song. This song is no longer broadcast on CBeebies.
- It's the Weekend: A song / rap sung at various times during the weekend.
- Washing Song
- Getting Dressed
- It's time for Lunch - Broadcast at noon, it includes different CBeebies personalities and children eating their lunch.
- Bathtime
- Toothbrush Song
- The Time Has Come to Say Goodnight - Lullaby broadcast just before 19:00 to mark the close of transmission from CBeebies.
- Get Set Go
- Discover & Do
- Big Fun Time
- Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon - Broadcast at 18:00 to mark the beginning of the Bedtime Hour.
- Sid Says: A rap-style presentation by Sid, who tells the audience to perform simple actions (such as "Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says 'wave your hands'").
- Number Debut: This song was only ever sung 4 times in history by Sid & Sarah-Jane. It was a rap sung before showings of Numberjacks about Sid getting his numbers in the wrong order.
- Number Raps: Sung by Sid and Andy – a rap for each of the numbers 1 to 5
- The Birthday Song: Sung before presenters show cards sent in on behalf of their young viewers who are celebrating a birthday that day. CBeebies does not use Happy Birthday to You which despite wide public performance is purportedly a copyrighted work.
In addition to these regular songs, other special songs were used to denote seasons and seasonal activities:
- Autumn Song (2009 version) - A song featuring Alex, Sid, Cerrie, Andy showing them (with children) picking apples.
- You Know It's Autumn
- Colours of Autumn - Featuring Chris and Pui
- Spring Song
- Summer Song
- Summer Song (2009 version)
- Winter Song (2009 version)
- Christmas Rap - Sung by Andy and Sid
- Happy Christmas - During the Christmas 2006 season, a segment was recorded featuring Chris, Sid, Pui, Justin and Sarah-Jane singing the 'Happy Christmas from CBeebies to you' song.
Bathtime Song
Muck with mud on his face (Bob the Builder), Todd's Dog jumping in the mud (Toddworld), Po (Teletubbies), Muck and Spud playing with mud (Bob the Builder), Roly Mo Sinking in the bath (The Roly Mo Show), Boo in the bath (Boo!) Pingu jumping in the bath (Pingu), Bob wanting someone to have a wash (Bob the Builder), Lola in a yellowcoat (Charlie and Lola), Florrie washing (Fimbles), Teletubbies washing the Noo-Noo (Teletubbies), Jake washing (Tweenies), squirting water at Bob (Bob the Builder), Lola tickling her toes with the sponge (Charlie and Lola) Bob washing Scoop (Bob the Builder), Pinga laughing in the bath (Pingu), a whale spinning very fast (Rubberdubbers), Fimbo thinking baths are fun (Fimbles) and Lola popping the last bubble (Charlie and Lola).
Bedtime Business
The bedtime business song features all the animal toys in the London CBeebies room.
New Bedtime Song
The sun going down and the moon coming up (ZingZillas), children sleeping break, the birds watching the shooting stars (3rd & Bird), Dan reading a story (Driver Dan's Story Train), Georgina tucking Lucy to bed (64 Zoo Lane), Timmy and Paxton sleeping (Timmy Time), Makka Pakka sleeping (In the Night Garden...) and Owl flying in the sky (Tinga Tinga Tales).
Original Bedtime Song
Georgina tucking Lucy to bed (64 Zoo Lane), Tombliboos chattering before bed (In the Night Garden...), Lola yawning (Charlie and Lola), Igglepiggle sailing away (In the Night Garden...), Mama Mirabele sending everybody to sleep (Mama Mirabele's Home Movies) and Mr Tumble going to sleep (Something Special). Not forgetting the moon rising up (Harry and Toto).
Getting Dressed
Wendy finding a shirt (Bob the Builder), very small Robbie Rotten clothes (LazyTown), Tombliboos putting their trousers on (In the Night Garden...) Lola bumping into the clothes stand, not looking where she is going (Charlie and Lola), Bob brushing his hair (Bob the Builder) a duck's new hat (Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks), Lola clipping her coat (Charlie and Lola), a Tombliboo getting his trousers (In the Night Garden...), Bob showing his new boots (Bob the Builder), a pig's glasses (Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks), Charlie wrapping Lola's scarf (Charlie and Lola), Bob getting his new boots on (Bob the Builder), In the Night Garden... breaks of Tombliboos, LazyTown members (LazyTown), Molly tells Wendy the shirt suits her (Bob the Builder), In the Night Garden... breaks of Upsy Daisy and Lola telling Charlie she's ready (Charlie and Lola).
Other Ventures
CBeebies website
The CBeebies website co-incided with the launch of the UK channel in
February 2002 and showcases a child friendly site with activities themed
to all CBeebies programmes, past and present, with games, songs and
print-outs featuring for nearly all shows. The UK version also features
links to CBeebies iPlayer, a child friendly version of the BBC iPlayer
featuring CBeebies programmes only, to CBeebies radio player and a
dedicated micro site containing advice for raising children and toddlers
called CBeebies Grown-ups, which was relaunched in 2011.
The international channels are run by BBC Worldwide,
and their websites are operated by the company also. As a result, not
all of them are the same and some channels have less extensive websites
than other services. CBeebies channels in Asia, Australia, Poland, South
Africa and the USA all have their own international variant.
CBeebies Album
The CBeebies Album was released in 2006 featuring the songs that Presenters Sue Monroe, Nicole Davis, Justin Fletcher, Sarah Jane Honeywell, Eva Alexander, Chris Jarvis and Pui Fan Lee broadcasted on the real CBeebies.
All songs written and composed by CBeebies, except as indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
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| 1. | "Can We Fix It?" | Bob the Builder | 3:07 | |
| 2. | "Best Friends Forever" | Tweenies | 3:22 | |
| 3. | "Strike Up The Band" | Balamory | 3:04 | |
| 4. | "Fi. Theme Tune" | Fimbles | 1:09 | |
| 5. | "Riverseafingal" | Me Too | 1:35 | |
| 6. | "BB. Theme & Kangaroo" | Boogie Beebies | 2:28 | |
| 7. | "Tk. Theme Tune and Tikkabilla Jive" | Tikkabilla | 3:09 | |
| 8. | "TRMS. Theme" | The Roly Mo Show | 2:23 | |
| 9. | "The Tidy Up Song" | Big Cook Little Cook | 2:32 | |
| 10. | "SS. Theme & Let's Make Music" | Something Special | 2:29 | |
| 11. | "KB. Theme & Helping" | The Koala Brothers | 2:20 | |
| 12. | "BB. Theme & I Wish I Was A Fish" | Barnaby Bear | 2:31 | |
| 13. | "Flobbadance" | Bill and Ben | 3:09 | |
| 14. | "The Shapes Song" | Bedroom Demo 1991 | 2:12 | |
| 15. | "Brum Brum, Get Things Done" | Brum | 3:25 | |
| 16. | "TSM. Theme" | The Story Makers | 2:51 | |
| 17. | "PP. New Theme" | Postman Pat | 1:34 | |
| 18. | "64ZL. Theme" | 64 Zoo Lane | 2:37 | |
| 19. | "TTV. Theme" | Tots TV | 2:39 | |
| 20. | "ETT. Theme" | Ethelbert the Tiger | 1:28 | |
| 21. | "Say Eh Oh!" | Teletubbies | 3:29 | |
| 22. | "Boo!" | The Roly Mo Show | 1:38 | |
| 23. | "B. Theme" | Bobinogs | 0:52 | |
| 24. | "SS. Theme & Sony Medley" | The Shiny Show | 2:33 | |
| 25. | "Dizzy" | Bob the Builder | 3:17 | |
| 26. | "LRT. Theme" | Little Red Tractor | 1:10 | |
| 27. | "DD. Theme & Collecting Song" | Doodle Do | 2:37 | |
| 28. | "Looby Loo" | Andy Pandy | 1:38 | |
| 29. | "Have Fun Go Mad" | Tweenies | 4:24 | |
| 30. | "LR. Theme" | Little Robots | 1:30 |
[edit] Awards
The UK channel and the programmes it has broadcast have received a number of awards throughout the years. In 2002, the Cbeebies Interactive TV Services was nominated in the Best Interactive Service category and CBeebies Online was nominated in the same category in 2005 at the BAFTA Children's Awards. The channel was awarded Best Children's Channel and Highly Commended at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards 2006 however only achieved a nomination in 2007 and 2008. The channel was also named Children's Channel of the Year at the BAFTA Children's awards in 2007 and was nominated for Channel of the Year in 2008 and 2009.
The CBeebies UK website was nominated Best Interactive Site at the 2007 BAFTA Children's awards, and the brand as a whole also won the Best Design and Innovation award by the Royal Television Society,
whose awarding panel said "Its website is an integral part of the
brand, with its TV production and online teams working together to
create innovative game play and immersive web experiences."
* In this scenario, the target audience is a little too young for my programme, though would be ideal for the animated format. Despite this, CBeebies isn't the route I will follow for my proposed channel programming,
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV or Children's Independent Television) is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc.
It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and
acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network (ITV1, STV and UTV).
The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00. The channel previously timeshared with ITV4
until 5 February 2008 when ITV4 expanded its broadcast hours to become a
full 24 hour channel. As a consequence, it moved to the Mux space on
Freeview originally held by ABC1, however this means that viewers in Wales are unable to receive the channel on Freeview but is still available near the border.
The CITV channel is an extension of the original afternoon children's
programming block shown on the ITV channel. "Children's ITV" began in
January 1983 and originally featured pre-recorded in-vision continuity
links fronted by various presenters and characters from Children's ITV
programmes. The strand was broadcast live from Central Independent Television's studios in Birmingham for the first time in 1987 and started to utilise regular staff presenters. The rebranded CITV reverted to out-of-vision continuity in February 1993, voiced live by Steven Ryde,
who later became a producer when the strand reverted back to in-vision
presentation in May 1998 and hired new presenters. In-vision continuity
was phased out again in September 2004, signalling the end of CITV
presentation from Birmingham after 17 years. At the start of 2007,
CITV's weekday afternoon strand on the main ITV network was axed.
CITV airs on Saturday and Sunday mornings on the ITV network between 6am and 9:25am and as part of the ITV Breakfast timeslot occupied by Daybreak on weekdays. Currently, presentation is produced by ITV Granada in Manchester, with pre-recorded continuity links voiced by Tim Dann.
Ratings
The CITV channel launched with a full-day average of 33,000 viewers
and a 2.5% share of the child audience. This put it ahead of its major
commercial rivals Cartoon Network (20,000, a 1.5% share), Boomerang (28,000 a 2.1% share) and Nickelodeon (26,000 a 2.0% share). The channel peaked at 16:30 with Bratz gaining 51,000 viewers and a 3.6% share. The channel took a 0.2% audience share in its first week compared to: CBBC 0.6, Cartoon Network 0.4, Boomerang 0.4% and CBeebies
1.4%. Its overall ratings share for March 2006 was 0.1%; by April 2006
this had risen to 0.2%, 0.3% followed in May. In August 2006, the
channel became the most popular commercial kids channel between 06:00
and 18:00. In 2011 the channel has averaged 250,000 viewers.
Programming
Programming between 06:00 and 09:25 is controlled by ITV Breakfast (previously GMTV),
who, having rebranded the vast majority of their GMTV1 and 2 children's
output as CITV, now use the space to simulcast their programming at
weekends on the ITV Network and CITV Breakfast on weekdays. ITV
takes over at 09:25, controlling the rest of the day's programming.
When it first launched, GMTV used to sell all the airtime for the
channel, making it the first ITV plc-owned channel not to be sold by the
in-house sales team. Airtime sales have now been taken back in-house by
ITV.
ITV's output for the channel includes many well-established programming from the long-running afternoon slot on ITV, such as My Parents Are Aliens, Jungle Run, Art Attack, Pokemon, and others, as well as new programming for the channel, such as Horrid Henry, Bookaboo and The Cool Stuff Collective.
On weekdays, the channel broadcasts mainly preschool programming in the
day (except during the school holidays), and programmes for school
children in the late afternoon and early evening to cater for the
available audience.
The CITV channel aired the last three weeks of Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown
exclusively on Saturday mornings before the show ended on Saturday 1
July 2006. The channel had previously simulcast the show with ITV before
spin-off show Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown: Extra aired at 11:30 exclusive to the channel.
Some of the programmes that air are sourced from different networks. ITV Breakfast's morning output on the channel and the weekend block on ITV1 is largely produced by Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.
On some occasions, the channel has repeated archive animated programming dating as far back as the early 1990s, including The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Rupert, The Wombles and Wolves, Witches and Giants.
Current blocks
Get Stuck In!
Get Stuck In! is an hour timeslot that features a
mixture of shows that encourage viewers to either make something or keep
active. The slot currently runs during weekends and school holidays on
the CITV channel from 12:00 to 14:00.
Horrid Henry's Power Hour
Horrid Henry's Power Hour is an hour dedicated to back to back episodes of Horrid Henry.
The block first launched in 2007, then after a break it came back in
2008 and then again from 2010 onwards. This block airs every Saturday
and Sunday from 14:00 to 15:00.
Mini CITV
Mini CITV is the pre-school slot on the CITV channel
that airs every weekday from 08:45 to 15:00 during school term time.
During weekends and school holidays it airs from 06:00 to 07:25 daily.
This strand was launched on 2 November 2009, as part of a major revamp
of CITV. Mini CITV features a series of animated characters called the Mini's, who are the mascots that can be seen in between all of Mini CITV's programming (similar to the 'yellow bugs' of rival CBeebies).
Programmes on Mini CITV
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Online streaming
It was revealed in the CITV newsletter released on Friday 29 August
2008, that the CITV channel would be broadcasting simultaneously on the
CITV website. Originally, ITV Breakfast (formerly GMTV)
programming between 06:00 and 09:25 was not included. As of 2010, the
website now simultaneously broadcasts all programming. This can been
seen on the homepage of the website.
Presenters
Presenters and announcers on CITV over the years have included:
In-vision presenters
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* Again, although the age range and target audience is well suited to my own target audience for my proposed programming, I don't really feel as though the channel's programme schedule is specific enough for my subject matter- and is heavily fictional, with no signs of real "education and learning" programmes- therefore, this would be prioritised below BBC channels (CBBC).
DISCOVERY
Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel) is an American satellite and cable specialty channel (also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet television in other parts of the world), founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. It provides documentary television programming
focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history. In the
U.S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily
focused on reality television themes, such as speculative investigation (with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and younger audiences. A popular annual feature is Shark Week.
History
On June 17, 1985, Discovery Channel was launched with $5 million in start-up capital from the BBC, the American investment firm Allen & Company,
Venture America and several other investors. In the beginning it was
available to 156,000 households and would broadcast for 12 hours between
3 p.m. and 3 a.m. with about 75 percent of the content new to American
viewers. John Hendricks is credited with founding of the channel and its parent company, then known as Cable Educational Network Inc, in 1982.
In its early years, the channel broadcast some Soviet programming, including the news program Vremya. In 1988, the channel premiered the nightly program World Monitor, produced by the Christian Science Monitor. 1988 also saw the very first Shark Week, which has since returned annually. Within five years, the channel's reach had extended to over 50 million households.
On January 4, 2006, Discovery Communications announced that Ted Koppel, longtime Executive Producer Tom Bettag, and eight former Nightline staff members were joining the Discovery Channel.
The network's ratings improved in 2006 after a drop widely attributed to an over-reliance on a few hit series such as Monster Garage and American Chopper.
Some critics said such series strayed from Discovery's mold of helping
viewers learn about the world around them. Beginning in 2005, Discovery
revamped its lineup to focus more closely on its traditional themes of
popular science, history, and geography. The network garnered a total of seven primetime Emmy award nominations in 2006 for shows including The Flight that Fought Back (about United Airlines Flight 93) and Deadliest Catch.
In 2007, Discovery Channel's top series include Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, the Emmy-award winning Planet Earth, MythBusters, and Deadliest Catch. Discovery's announced plans for 2008 include a new series with Josh Bernstein, who left History Channel to join Discovery. Other announced series include Fight Quest, Smash Lab, and the fourth season of Deadliest Catch.
Discovery Channel is currently the most widely distributed cable network in the United States, reaching more than 92 million households, part of its global audience of 431 million homes in 170 countries and territories.
Versions of the channel are seen in Latin America, the United Kingdom,
Australia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, India, Malaysia and other countries.
On September 1, 2010, a man entered the building with a handgun and fired at least one shot, held hostages, and was later shot. He has published criticisms of the network in an online manifesto at SaveThePlanetProtest.com.
Programming
Popular programming on the channel today includes Shark Week, an annual week of programming dedicated to facts about sharks; Deadliest Catch, about fishing for crab in the Bering Sea; the popular science shows MythBusters,where the hosts use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors or myths, and How It's Made, which features how everyday objects are manufactured; Dirty Jobs about dirty and/or dangerous blue collar occupations; a quiz show Cash Cab, FutureWeapons, about cutting edge weapons technology and Man vs Wild, showing how a man can survive in the wild. Christopher Lowell won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2000 for The Christopher Lowell Show, which aired on the Discovery Channel from 1998-2001.
Non-television ventures
Pro Cycling Team
Shortly before the 2004 Tour de France,
Discovery Channel announced it would become the primary sponsor of a
professional bicycling team starting in 2005, featuring seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. However, after the 2007 victory with the Spaniard Alberto Contador Discovery Channel announced its retirement from cycling sponsorship. This sponsorship ended after the 2007 cycling season.
Discovery Channel Radio
Discovery Channel Radio was a channel on the both major Canada satellite radio services. The programming consisted of audio versions of popular programs from its multitude of TV channels. Discovery was previously on XM Satellite Radio but was dropped in early September 2005. Sirius Satellite Radio dropped Discovery Radio from its slate on February 21, 2007.
Store
Discovery Channel also lent its branding to retail stores in malls
and other locations across America, as well as an online store.
Educational gifts were the store's specialty. On May 17, 2007, Discovery
Communications announced it was closing its stand-alone and mall-based
stores. Hudson Group will continue to operate the Discovery Channel
Airport Stores, and the website remains in operation.
Telescope
Discovery Channel is also funding the construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope, in partnership with Lowell Observatory.
Website
Discovery.com features several exclusive browser-based games, with various science-based or sociological challenges.
Marketing and branding
Taglines
Discovery Channel's previous taglines had been "Explore Your World" and "There's no thrill like discovery."
However in view of its changing focus towards more reality-based
programming and away from strictly educational programming, the slogan
was changed to "Entertain Your Brain". The new tagline for the revamped Discovery Channel was "Let's All Discover...", with a continuing phrase or sentence that relates to a show. For example, when advertising for MythBusters, the commercial would end, "Let's All Discover, Why No Myth Is Safe". With the 2008 logo change came a new tagline: "The World is Just...Awesome." The newest commercials includes an unreleased mix of the song "Wonders Never Cease" by Morcheeba, from the album entitled The Antidote and the song Typical by MUTEMATH. Their most recent commercial I Love the World,
created by the 72andSunny agency, contains amended verses and the
refrain from the traditional campfire song "I Love The Mountains".
Logos
The Discovery Channel's very first logo was a television screen
picturing a map of the World. For two decades on the air, the logo
incorporated the Discovery wordmark in an Aurora Bold Condensed font
with a circle shape in front of it. The circle usually took the form of a
rising sun, or an animated version of the Vitruvian Man.
In 1995, the word "The" was dropped from the channel's name. A globe
became a permanent part of the logo, and a strap was added to the bottom
of the logo. During this time, the company started expanding and
launched several new networks. Many of the sister networks used designs
similar to the one used by Discovery, often incorporation the globe and
using the same typeface. Networks that had logos based on Discovery's
were Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Science, Discovery Wings and Discovery Home & Leisure.
The logo was changed slightly in 2000 when the word "Channel" was moved
into the strap, and the globe was altered to focus on the Pacific
Ocean.
On April 15, 2008, before the season premiere of Deadliest Catch,
Discovery Channel started using a new logo, new graphics and the new
tagline "The World is Just Awesome". The new logo has been designed by
Viewpoint Creative in Boston and replaced Aurora Bold Condensed with Gotham. The globe has been merged with the "D" in "Discovery". This D-globe part can be detached and used separately, for example it is used as the channel's bug. Later in 2009, design agency Royale slightly modified the logo, detaching the globe from the D, and made the word CHANNEL slightly bigger. The modified logo was rolled out to the rest of the world during the first half of 2009.
Controversy
RFID
In August 2008 it was reported by The Consumerist that Discovery Channel had stopped their popular MythBusters program from airing an episode examining RFID security in regard to its implementation in credit cards because the episode would upset credit card companies, who are major advertisers on Discovery Channel. It was later determined that the decision not to investigate the issue was made by Beyond Productions, the MythBusters production company, and was not made by Discovery Channel or their advertising department.
Enigmatic Malaysia
An ad promoting the network's Enigmatic Malaysia, a special series meant to highlight the cultural heritages of Malaysia, mistakenly featured Balinese Pendet dancers.
This prompted outrage from Balinese dancers, who posted messages
demanding that Malaysia apologize over the misinformation, which then
sparked a series of street protests. Further demands were made from the local governments, cultural historians as well as the tourism ministry in Indonesia for Malaysia to clarify the situation. The Malaysian government reportedly offered their apologies, which was
rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister, since the apology was given
informally by phone, the Indonesian tourism minister demanded a written
apology to make it more accountable.
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* I don't feel as though the channel is really specific enough to nature programming (as I originally thought/assumed it was), or a young target audience- therefore, I won't be choosing this as my
final proposed channel.
MILKSHAKE (CHANNEL 5)
Milkshake! is a television programming block on Channel 5,
aimed at children 2 to 7 years old. The strand debuted in 1997 and is
broadcast on weekdays from 06:00 to 09:00, and from 07:00 to 10:00 on
weekends. Sunday and Monday Mornings its broadcast 05:00 to 09:15/10:00.
It used to air on 5* between 09:00 and 13:00 each day until April 2011 when it was replaced by teleshopping. Presentation links for Milkshake! are broadcast live from Channel 5's headquarters in London.
Milkshake! is also available on demand via BT Vision.
Current programmes
- The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
- The Adventures of Parsley
- Angelina Ballerina
- Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps (dubbed as 'Angelina Ballerina')
- The Baby Triplets
- Barney & Friends
- Bananas in Pyjamas
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
- Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
- The Book of Pooh
- Bump
- Castle Farm
- Charlie Brown and Friends
- City of Friends
- Elmo's World
- Fifi and the Flowertots
- Fireman Sam
- Funky Valley
- Hana's Helpline
- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- Hattytown Tales
- Hi-5
- Igam Ogam
- Jane and the Dragon
- Jellikins (coming soon)
- Johnson and Friends
- Little Lodgers
- Little Princess
- Make Way for Noddy
- Milkshake! Bop Box
- Milkshake! Monkey
- Milkshake! Music Box
- Milkshake! Show Songs
- The Milky and Shake Show
- Mio Mao
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
- Mr. Men
- My Little Pony (My Little Pony 'n Friends episodes only)
- Olive the Ostrich (coming soon)
- Olivia
- Oswald
- PB Bear and Friends
- Peppa Pig
- Pocoyo
- Professor Bubble
- Roary the Racing Car
- Rocky and the Dodos
- Rolie Polie Olie
- Roobarb and Custard Too
- Rupert Bear
- The Save-Ums
- Telebugs
- The Forgotten Toys
- The Land Before Time
- Thomas and Friends (Series 8 onwards)
- The WotWots
Past programmes
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News bulletins
Between 1997 and 2000, the strand featured a news update from ITN's 5 News on weekdays at 08:00.
Presenters
In-vision continuity presenters have been utilised by Milkshake since the strand began in 1997. The original presenters were Konnie Huq and Lucy Alexander. Huq was replaced by former Nickelodeon presenter Eddie Matthews when she left the strand to join the BBC as a Blue Peter presenter.
The current presenting line up consists of:
- Kemi Majeks (1999–present)
- Derek Moran (2007-present)
- Jennifer Pringle (2006–present)
- Amy Thompson (2009-present)
Former presenters
- Naomi Wilkinson (2000-2010)
- Beth Evans (2004-2010)
- Lucy Alexander (1997–2001)
- Emilia Coxe (2002)
- Philip Ercolano (2002)
- Konnie Huq (1997)
- Eddie Matthews (1998–2005)
- Andrew McEwan (2006–2007)
- Dave Payne (2007-2009)
- Hannah Williams (2006-2009)
Relief and freelance presenters have also anchored Milkshake continuity links including Quizmania devisor/producer Chuck Thomas and actress Casey-Lee Jolleys.
* Target audience a little too young- only just entering my target audience range, and programming fictional, not non-fictional, as my programme would be proposed to be.
NAT GEO (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Channel
National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual content involving nature, science, culture, and history. The channel is owned primarily by Fox Cable Networks, a division of News Corporation. Its primary sister network worldwide, including the United States, is Nat Geo WILD, which focuses on animal programming, including the popular Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan.
Overview
In September 1997, the world's first National Geographic Channel was launched in the UK, Europe and Australia. In July 1998, National Geographic Channel Asia was launched in partnership and distribution with STAR TV (Before replacing NBC Asia Channel. The same happened in NBC Europe's
demise in 1998). Today, the channel is available in over 143 countries,
seen in more than 160 million homes and in 25 languages.
In the United States, National Geographic Channel, launched on January 12, 2001, is a joint venture of National Geographic Television & Film and Fox Cable Networks. National Geographic provides programming expertise and the Fox Networks Group provides its expertise on distribution, marketing, and ad sales.
In Canada, the channel (National Geographic Channel (Canada)) is owned by Shaw Media and National Geographic Channel USA, while the European versions are operated in partnership with Fox's sister company, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), which has since sold to Fox in 2007. This includes an English language version for the UK, Iceland and Republic of Ireland, which is carried on BSkyB's own Sky Digital pay TV service and also on TalkTalk TV in the UK, Sky Digital, UPC, Magnet Networks, SCTV in the Republic of Ireland and Skjarin in Iceland.
In Australia, National Geographic Channel is carried by Foxtel, Optus, Austar, Neighbourhood Cable, TransTV, and SelecTV.
The Australian version includes Australian guest presenters of
promotional material and to introduce certain programs, series and
specials.
In New Zealand, National Geographic Channel is broadcast on SKY Network Television and TelstraClear InHomeTV.
In South Africa, the channel is carried by Digital Satellite Television (also known as DStv) is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa.
In the Middle East, an Arabic version is broadcasting free to air on Nilesat as National Geographic Abu Dhabi. It is co-owned by the National Geographic Society/Fox International Channels & Abu Dhabi Media Company.
Theme fanfare music
The National Geographic Channel's signature theme fanfare music is composed by Elmer Bernstein, which is usually played at the beginning of many of the channel's television programs.
Other National Geographic Channels
Nat Geo Music
Designed to offer an alternative music video channel for both
international and smaller independent local labels with a focus on
cultural lyrics and rhythms. Nat Geo Music became available in Italy on
October 15, 2007, and will later be broadcast around the world.
Nat Geo Junior
Nat Geo Junior is broadcasted in the Netherlands, Belgium, India and
created specifically for children. Nat Geo Junior also features as a
block of programming on the National Geographic Channel in Asia.
National Geographic Channel HD
National Geographic Channel HD (NGC HD) in the USA is a 720p high definition simulcast of the National Geographic Channel. It launched in January 2006. It is available nationwide on satellite providers DirecTV, Dish Network, and on several cable providers.
* Although the channel seemed like the perfect broadcaster for my subject matter, I was a little concerned in regards to the target audience- the magazine of the National Geographic being aimed at a much older, "mature" target audience. However, visiting the website gave me confidence that they aim to actively engage children aged at my target audience level too.
NAT GEO WILD
Nat Geo WILD is a cable TV channel focused on animal-related programs. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks. It first launched in Hong Kong on January 1, 2006, focusing primarily on wildlife and natural history programming. The channel later launched in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Ireland, Romania, Vietnam, and Poland replacing the now defunct Adventure One. The channel remains the world's first bilingual wildlife service, available in English and Cantonese in the Hong Kong market. The channel launched in Latin America on November 1, 2009 as a high definition channel. In 2010, it launched in the United States.
Programming
Nat Geo WILD programming is sourced from various agencies, including
UK and European distributors, terrestrial joint productions and National
Geographic Television productions.
All programs are based on natural wildlife and wildlife history, with a
heavy focus on nature's most fierce predators. Both the UK and Asian
versions of the channel include programming focusing on wildlife in
their local areas. Popular programs include:*
- 21st Century Shark
- A Man Among Bears
- A Man Among Wolves
- Africa's Lost Eden
- Africa's Secret Seven
- Alaskan Killer Shark
- Amazon Claws
- Amazonia's Giant Jaws
- American Buffalo: Battling Back
- American Eagle
- America's Deadly Obsession
- Among The Great Apes With Michelle Yeoh
- An Animal Saved My Life
- Anaconda: Queen Of The Serpents
- Animal Autopsy
- Animal Fugitives
- Animal Impact
- Animal Omens
- Animals Of Brazil
- Ape Genius
- Asia's Deadliest Snakes
- Bandits Of Selous
- Bavaria's Alpine Kingdom
- Be The Creature
- Bear Nomad
- Bears Of Fear Islands
- Big Animal Hunt with Filip Badrov
- Big Cat Odyssey
- Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy
- Bizarre Dinos
- Blue Collar Dogs
- Bonecrusher Queens
- Brutal Killers
- Bug Attack
- Bug Brother
- Built for the Kill
- California's Wild Coast
- Cameramen Who Dare
- Catching Giants
- Caught Barehanded
- Caught In The Act
- Caught On Safari: Battle At Kruger
- Cheetah Blood Brothers
- Chimp Diaries
- Chimps Unchained
- Chimps: Nearly Human
- City Of Ants
- Clan Of The Meerkat
- Clash Of The Crocs
- Cliffhangers
- Crittercam
- Croc Ganglands
- Crocodile King
- Crocs Of Katuma
- Cuba: The Accidental Eden
- Dam Beavers
- Dangerous Encounters With Brady Barr
- Dark Side Of Chimps
- Deadly 60
- Deadly Snakes Of Asia
- Deadly Summer
- Deep Jungle
- Desert Seas
- Dino Autopsy
- Dino Death Trap
- Dive to Tiger Central
- Dog Whisperer
- Dogtown
- Dolphin Army
- Dragon Chronicles
- Eternal Enemies
- Evolutions
- Expedition Grizzly
- Expedition Wild
- Extinction Sucks
- Eye Of The Leopard
- Fishzilla: Snakehead Invasion
- Frogs: The Thin Green Line
- Galapagos
- Golden Seals of Skeleton Coast
- Gone Wild
- Gorilla Murders
- Great Apes With Michelle Yeoh
- Great Migrations
- Grizzly Cauldron
- Hammerhead Highway
- Haunt Of The Hippo
- Hidden Worlds
- Hippo Hell
- Hippos: Africa's River Beast
- Hollywood Bear Tragedy
- How Big Can It Get
- Hummingbirds: Magic In The Air
- Humpbacks: Cracking the Code
- Hunter Hunted
- Hunting For Ngotto
- Hyena Queen
- In The Womb
- Insect From Hell
- Inside Nature's Giants
- Intimate Enemies
- Into The Abyss
- Japan's Hidden Secret
- Jean Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventure
- Jellyfish Invasion
- Journey Into Amazonia
- Kalahari Supercats
- Kangaroo Kaos
- Killer Dragons
- Killer Instincts
- Killer Shots
- Kingdom Of The Forest
- Kingdom Of The Meadow
- Leopard Queen
- Lion Army: Battle To Survive
- Lion Warriors
- Lions Behaving Badly
- Lions On The Edge
- Living With Big Cats
- Lizard Kings
- Monkey Thieves
- Monster Crocs
- Monster Fish
- Monster Fish Of The Congo
- Monster Jellyfish
- Morays: The Alien Eels
- Mother Warthog
- My Dog Ate What?
- My Life Is A Zoo
- Mystery Gorillas
- Mystery Of The Wolf
- Night Of The Lion
- Night Stalkers
- Ninja Shrimp
- Nordic Wild
- Octopus Volcano
- Off The Clock
- Orca Killing School
- Outback Wrangler
- Penguin Death Zone
- Phantom Wolverine
- Planet Carnivore
- Polar Bear Alcatraz
- Predator Battleground
- Predator CSI
- Predators in Peril
- Predators Of The Sea
- Prehistoric Predators
- Project Manta
- Python Hunters
- Quest For The Megafish Of The Amazon
- Raccoon Dogs: Alien Invaders
- Raptor Force
- Real Serengeti
- Rebel Monkeys
- Red Sea, Green Future
- Redwoods: Anatomy Of A Giant
- Relentless Enemies
- Rescue Ink
- Restless Planet
- Return Of The White Lion
- Rhino Rescue
- Sahara
- Salmon Wars
- Saved From The Spill
- Sea Strikers
- Seahorses
- Search For The Giant Octopus
- Search For The Ultimate Bear
- Searching For The Snow Leopard
- Secret Shark Pits
- Secrets Of The King Cobra
- Secrets Of The Mediterranean
- Sex, Drugs & Plants
- Sex, Drugs And Plants
- Shadow Hunters
- Shane Untamed
- Shark Attack Experiment
- Shark Island
- Shark Nicole
- Shark Night
- Sharkville
- Shell Shocked
- Sixgill Shark
- Smake Paradise
- Space Crabs
- Spain's Last Lynx
- Spine Chillers
- Spine Chillers: Vampire Bats
- Squid vs Whale
- Street Monkeys
- Strike Force
- Striker!
- Strikers!
- Sumatra's Last Tiger
- Super Predators
- Super Pride
- Superfish
- Superpride
- Swamp Men
- Swamp Troop
- Taiwan Wild
- That Shouldn't Fly
- The Animal Extractors
- The Bear Evidence
- The Dark Side Of Elephants
- The Dark Side Of Hippos
- The Invaders
- The Kill Zone
- The Last Lioness
- The Lion Ranger
- The Living Edens
- The Megafalls of Iguacu
- The Pack
- The Real Serengeti
- The Rise Of Black Wolf
- Thunderbeast
- Tiger Queen
- Totally Wild
- Triumph Of Life
- Ultimate Bear
- Ultimate Cat
- Ultimate Enemies
- Ultimate Hippo
- Ultimate Shark
- Ultimate Viper
- Ultimate Vipers
- Underwater Oasis
- Unlikely Animal Friends
- Valley Of The Wolves
- Warzone Gone Wild
- When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs
- Wild Animal Evictions
- Wild Asia
- Wild Detectives
- Wild Dog Diaries
- Wild Nights
- Wild Russia
- Wildlife Rescue Africa
- World's Deadliest
- World's Deadliest Animals
- World's Weirdest
- World's Wildest Encounters
- World's Worst Venom
- Zambezi
- Zoo Confidential
Availability
Europe
The channel launched on March 1, 2007 in the UK, and now reaches up to 10.5 million homes via subscription providers Sky Digital and Virgin Media. In Ireland it has more than 500,000 viewers on its UPC Ireland service and Sky Digital.
Asia
In Asia, the channel is carried on the StarHub TV and Now TV subscription services. Showtime Arabia carries the channel for Middle Eastern
viewers. The channel was launched in South Korea on April 16, 2009. The
channel was launched in India on July 31, 2009. Currently its available
on Videocon d2h and Sun Direct DTH using the Asian feed.
Latin America
Australia
The Asian version of the channel launched into Australia on November 15, 2009 on Austar and Foxtel. The high definition version launched on Foxtel on November 1, 2010. It is expected to launch on Austar in late 2010/early 2011.
United States
The channel launched in the United States on March 29, 2010, replacing Fox Reality Channel. Providers that carried it at launch include Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications, Verizon Fios and AT&T U-verse. Dish Network did not reach a carriage agreement at launch, but began to broadcast the channel on April 19, 2010. DirecTV
didn't carry it at launch but added it on June 30, 2010. Dish Network,
Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Brighthouse Networks, Verizon FiOS, and
AT&T U-verse carry the channel in 720p high definition.
Africa
The channel launched in South Africa in mid 2009, and is available on the South African Satellite Network DSTV.
Future
According to a press release, NGCI expects to roll out the channel globally, with expansion to other areas in Europe, Latin America, Israel and Taiwan.
Competitors
Nat Geo Wild's largest competitor is Animal Planet.
* The programming list has proven really useful- although stated as usually programming "fierce or deadly" programmes, there is space for less threat- such as "The Dog Whipserer"! Also, the channel already features popular kid's TV show 'Deadly 60', a programme about penguins, and one about the Galapagos (where a species of penguins live), so I feel that my proposed programme would fit well into the channel's screenings.
NAT GEO JUNIOR
* Perhaps a little too childlike for the upper age limit (11?)- not sure how mature 11 year olds are nowadays... need to see how well they would engage with these visuals/programme- also, not available as a channel (yet) in the UK- would potentially cause a problem with language/translation in my design development.
ANIMAL PLANET
Animal Planet is an television channel in the United Kingdom. The channel is dedicated to programming that highlights the relationship between humans and animals.
Programming
Programmes shown on the channel include:
- Animal Cops: Houston
- Animal Cops: Philadelphia
- Animal Cops: Phoenix
- Animal Crackers
- Big Cat Diary
- Meerkat Manor
- Monkey Life
- Monsters Inside Me
- Orangutan Island
- The Planet's Funniest Animals
- Untamed & Uncut
- Wildlife SOS
- Wild Europe
- Up Close and Dangerous
NAT GEO MUSIC (SIDE NOTE.../FURTHER REFERENCING)
Nat Geo Music was a music TV channel, owned in Italy by Fox International Channels Italy,
which used to broadcast documentaries concerning 'the meeting between
music and culture' around the world. The channel used to be broadcast
only in Italy and Portugal. A forthcoming Asian version of the channel
is presently being promoted on National Geographic channels across the
continent.
In Italy it could be found on channel 710 of SKY Italia;
before (from the launch until April 30, 2008) it was at channel 406. In
Portugal, the channel was transmitted through the IPTV and satellite
operator Meo, both on channel 148. It was available also in most European countries, including the Czech Republic and the UK.
Nat Geo Music used to refer to the National Geographic
Society's music website and record label, which work in conjunction with
the TV Channel.
The Nat Geo Music website was launched in April, 2006 and spotlights
music from around the globe with a multimedia mix of videos, mp3 and
text features, including country and genre descriptions, artist
profiles, interviews, music news, and more.
The channel ceased broadcast in some territories on 31 August 2011
but it really ceased broadcasting on the 31st of October 2011.
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