Community Channel (UK)
| Community Channel | |
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| Launched | 18 September 2000 |
| Owned by | Media Trust |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.01% (April 2017, BARB) |
| Website | communitychannel.org |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 63 |
| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 651 |
| Sky | Channel 539 |
| Astra 2F | 12207 V 27500 2/3 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 269 |
| Smallworld Cable | Channel 269 |
| WightFibre | Channel 61 |
| Streaming media | |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
Community Channel is a UK free-to-air television channel wholly owned by Media Trust and supported by major broadcasters including the BBC. The channel is available to all TV households in the UK.
Community Channel broadcasts inspiring community stories, uplifting series and documentaries that encourage people to "do something brilliant" that makes a difference to where they live. Each year the channel broadcasts over five hundred new programmes and hundreds of community stories. A million individuals a month watch the channel across its platforms.
The channel broadcasts on Freeview HD 63 (10am-midnight), Sky 539 and Virgin TV 269 and Freesat 651 (24 hours). It offers video on demand through the channel's website, YouTube, BT TV, Daily Motion and via BBC iPlayer. The channel is also streamed through TVPlayer.
The channel runs an interactive red button service with Looking Local on Sky and Virgin. The channel’s website presents deeper online resources and an extensive video-on-demand service.
Community Channel launched on Sky in September 2000, on Freeview in 2002, NTL in 2005 (becoming Virgin Media in 2007), YouTube on 2008 and BBC iPlayer in November 2012. In early October 2013, the channel launched on TV Catchup. It joined the free-to-air satellite TV service Freesat on 17 October 2013.
In 2004, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sky's CEO James Murdoch agreed to a Joint Declaration of support for the Community Channel, along with eight other major players in the British media industry: Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, ITN, Discovery, Flextech, GMTV, and the independent producers' body PACT. MTV, Disney and Turner Broadcasting System joined the group in 2006 and the now-defunct Joost signed the declaration in 2007.
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