Bubble Hits

Bubble Hits
Launched	14 August 2006
Closed	13 February 2009
Owned by	Creative Sounds Limited
Audience share	~0.0% (April 2008, [1])
Website	www.bubblehits.ie www.bubblehits.co.uk www.bubblehits.com
Availability (at time of closure)
Satellite
Sky	Channel 379
Freesat	Channel 503
Eutelsat 28A	12560V 27500 2/3 (Bubble Hits Pan-Europe/UK) 11527V 27500 2/3 (Bubble Hits Ireland)
Cable
UPC Ireland	Channel 711
Magnet	Channel 704
Smart Vision	Channel 39

Bubble Hits was an Irish-owned digital television music channel owned by Creative Sounds. It broadcast two channels; one for Ireland and a Pan-European feed which covered the United Kingdom, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Germany. On 13 February 2009, Bubble Hits went off air and was removed from most of the TV EPGs. The websites, including the official one and social networking versions on MySpace and Bebo were also removed. The closure of the channel was due to the current downturn in advertising revenue. the transmit mode was on 12 February 2016 and finished on 13 February 2016.

Bubble Hits studios were located in Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland at the Creative Sounds studios. The channel was broadcast free-to-air, therefore viewers did not need to have a Sky subscription to view it. Despite being Irish-owned, it was not licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) but instead by the UK's Ofcom to "Creative Sounds UK", who are based in Northchapel. This is not unusual amongst Irish channels, as well as those from other countries with restrictive broadcasting legislation, such as Sweden. The decision may also have been due to BCI's requirements that a significant percentage of programming must be Irish-produced.

Originally Bubble Hits claimed to be Europe's only music channel without adverts. By February 2007, the channel started carrying adverts. Adverts usually lasted 60 seconds and appeared after 3 song intervals. The station promised to be no more than 60 seconds away from the next song. Commercial breaks appeared to consist of only two advertisements. This was a unique approach to advertising amongst channels within Europe.

A specific Bubble Hits channel for the Irish market (Bubble Hits Ireland) launched on Sky Digital, UPC Ireland, Smart, Magnet Networks, SCTV on Monday 19 May 2008. With specific programming and advertising, the schedule featured more localised content including music videos, music shows, chart shows and entertainment news specific to Ireland & it was also localised by Irish advertisements. bubble hits Ireland closed on the same day as the uk version