Home (TV channel)
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| Launched | 1 November 1997 |
| Owned by |
UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Scripps Networks Interactive) |
| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.24% 0.02% (+1) (February 2017, BARB) |
| Slogan | "There's No Place Like It" |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Formerly called | UK Style (1997-2004) UKTV Style (2004-2009) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Alibi Dave Drama Eden Gold Good Food Really W Yesterday |
| Timeshift service | Home +1 |
| Website | Home |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 25 |
| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 196 Channel 244 (+1) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media (UK) | Channel 281 Channel 282 (+1) |
| WightFibre | Channel 67 |
| Streaming media | |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
| Sky Go |
Watch live (UK and Ireland only) |
Home is an interior home and garden-orientated lifestyle television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel originally launched on 1 November 1997 and relaunched in its current format on 30 April 2009. Home is broadcast 24 hours a day on Sky, Virgin Media and TVPlayer. The channel was transmitted by terrestrial provider ITV Digital 24 hours a day until the company's collapse in 2002. Home made a return to terrestrial screens for a time in the mid-2000s (decade) as part of the now-defunct Top Up TV system, and became available as a free-to-air linear service on Freeview from 1 March 2016.
The channel originally launched on 1 November 1997 as UK Style, broadcasting lifestyle programming from the archive of the BBC and from external producers. The channel was launched as part of the initial creation of the UKTV network, following the success of sister channel UK Gold. The channels success was noted when new channel UK Food was created with the sole purpose to free up the space on UK Style's schedule by transferring all food programming to the new channel.
In January 2003, another new channel called UK Bright Ideas was created to showcase programming from UK Style and UK Food on the digital terrestrial network Freeview. This was later extended to all networks, allowing repeats of some programmes to air on this channel only. On the 8 March 2004, in line with the rest of the UKTV network, the channel changed its name to UKTV Style. The channel's schedule was further freed up by the creation of new channel UKTV Style Gardens in January 2005, which allowed the transfer of all landscape and gardening programmes to the new channel. The channel name was later shortened to UKTV Gardens in 2007.
As part of the rebranding of UKTV's channels to unique names and identities, UKTV Style was rebranded as Home on 30 April 2009 and repositioned to include programming based around home improvement, gardens and home lifestyle programmes. Other female lifestyle programmes were transferred to newly created channel Really, and all gardening programmes were transferred from UKTV Gardens to Home as part of the rebrand.
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