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Sky Living was a British
pay television
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channel
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Geography
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owned and operated by
Sky
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. The channel's programming was aimed mainly at women and young adults. It originally launched as UK Living in 1993 and closed 25 years later, being replaced by
Sky Witness
Sky Witness is a British pay television tv channel, channel owned and operated by Sky Limited, Sky, a division of Comcast. The channel primarily broadcasts drama shows from the United States, aimed at the 18–45 age group. An Italian version ...
.
History
UK Living began broadcasting on 1 September 1993, as part of the
Sky Multichannels
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network, broadcasting for 18 hours a day, between 7am and 1am (changing in 1995 to 6am until midnight). It was originally owned by a three way partnership; former
ITV
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London franchise holder
Thames Television
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,
Tele-Communications Inc.
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and fellow cable communications company Cox Enterprises, with a budget of £25million.
By January 1994,
Flextech
Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Challenge still broadcasting.
Living TV Group had several owned channels, available in the United K ...
(later known as Virgin Media Television and
Living TV Group
Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Challenge still broadcasting.
Living TV Group had several owned channels, available in the United K ...
), took over TCI's shares in UK Living as part of a deal between the two companies
By 1996,
Telewest
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's
Flextech
Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Challenge still broadcasting.
Living TV Group had several owned channels, available in the United K ...
division gained full control, after buying out the now-defunct Thames and Cox Enterprises.
Shortly afterwards the channel moved away from its reliance of
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programming, and increase its output of American programming.
In 1997, when the BBC and
Flextech
Living TV Group was a British television consortium originally called Flextech before becoming a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting, with Challenge still broadcasting.
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launched the UKTV Network:
UK Style,
UK Horizons
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and
UK Arena
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History
The channel originally launched ...
, it was decided that UK Living would remain a separate channel. As such, it had to remove the 'UK' branding to avoid being confused with the UKTV services; thus UK Living became Living.
Living launched its website in 2001 as livingtv.co.uk, prior to the channel being renamed LivingTV in December 2001. This was initially represented on-screen by the addition of the letters 'TV' to the established logo. In a 2004 branding relaunch, the way the name was displayed changed to LIVINGtv.
On 28 October 2002, LivingTV launched its first timeshift, LivingTV +1. The channel was a 1-hour timeshift of LivingTV.
In a further change in 2007, the channel name reverted from LIVINGtv back to LIVING (still officially spelt all in capitals, though some media write the name in normal case). In 2009, the idents were changed to a 3D logo, with glass on the side of the 'L' in either pink or blue. Other idents show the logo covered in paint, while
Livingit
Real Lives was a British television channel owned by Sky Limited, Sky, a division of Comcast. It used to be the sister channel of Sky Witness, Sky Living. It was originally known as LIVINGtv2 from the channel's launch in 2004 till 2007, and the ...
adopted a slightly different appearance.
On 1 April 2009, Living +2, a two-hour
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of the channel, launched,. It lasted for 15 months and was replaced on 1 July 2010, ahead of the launch of ''
Living Loves''.
On 12 June 2009, a
high-definition version of the channel was announced as part of a cross-platform strategy to boost the channel's brand.
The channel launched on 6 October 2009 exclusively on Virgin Media. and on 2 September 2010, it launched on
Sky
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channel 224.
On 1 February 2011, the Living HD channel was relaunched as Sky Living HD.
Sky ownership
BSkyB announced on 25 October 2010, that Living would be rebranded as Sky Living in early 2011 and moving EPG positions on Sky from channel 112 to 107, between
Sky One
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and
Sky Atlantic
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, to improve their entertainment line-up.
As part of an attempt to appeal more to men, the channel's pink branding was replaced by a blue and silver logo in September 2013.
On 8 June 2018, Sky announced that the channel would be rebranded into
Sky Witness
Sky Witness is a British pay television tv channel, channel owned and operated by Sky Limited, Sky, a division of Comcast. The channel primarily broadcasts drama shows from the United States, aimed at the 18–45 age group. An Italian version ...
on 6 August 2018.
Programming
The channel was mainly aimed at women aged between 25 and 45, broadcasting films, dramas, chat shows, quiz shows and soap operas. Most of its original programming came from the programme libraries of Thames Television and the
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. A unique aspect was the repeats of programmes such as ''Kilroy'', ''Anne and Nick'', and ''Floyd'', which were all shown within a week of being transmitted on mainstream television.
In addition, the channel produced its own programmes, including a weekday flagship lifestyle show ''Live at Three'' as well as various agony-style shows which were broadcast in the early afternoon or late at night.
In 2001, the channel helped to launch a whole new genre of