Eden (TV channel)
| Eden | |
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| Launched | 8 March 2004 |
| Owned by |
UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Scripps Networks Interactive) |
| Picture format |
16:9, 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.04% 0.02% (+1) (September 2015, BARB) |
| Slogan | 'Never stop wondering' |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Broadcast area | United Kingdom Ireland |
| Formerly called | UKTV Documentary (2004–2009) |
| Replaced | UK Horizons |
| Sister channel(s) |
Alibi Dave Drama Gold Good Food Home Really W Yesterday |
| Timeshift service | Eden +1 |
| Website | eden.uktv.co.uk |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 532 (SD/HD) Channel 533 (+1) Channel 563 (SD) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 247 Channel 248 (+1) Channel 249 (HD) |
| WightFibre | Channel 74 |
| IPTV | |
| TalkTalk TV | Channel 315 |
| BT | Channel 315 Channel 389 (HD) |
| Streaming media | |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) (TVPlayer Plus subscription required) |
| Sky Go |
Watch live (UK and Ireland only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
Eden is a digital television channel broadcasting factual content in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel originally launched on 8 March 2004 and relaunched in its current format on 27 January 2009. The channel is available on Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable, TalkTalk Plus TV, BT TV, and TVPlayer (When subscribed to TVPlayer Plus). It isn't available on the digital terrestrial supplier Freeview.
The channel launched on 8 March 2004 as UKTV Documentary, showing factual documentaries, mainly taken from the BBC archives, on a variety of subjects if not covered by another channel in the UKTV network, such as Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. Much of this programming had come from the former UKTV channel UK Horizons, which had closed down the day before and which the channel, along with UKTV People, replaced. UKTV Documentary occupied the same broadcasting slot as UK Horizons.
On 9 October 2008, UKTV announced plans to rebrand UKTV Documentary and UKTV People in early 2009. The news came just two days after UKTV's entertainment channels were rebranded to Watch, Gold and Alibi. They announced that UKTV Documentary would be rebranded as Eden and this rebrand took place on 26 January 2009. As part of the rebrand, the channels programming output changed from all documentaries to primarily documentaries focusing on the natural environment. All other documentaries were transferred to UKTV History or UKTV People, depending on their subject matter.
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