Propeller TV
| Propeller TV | |
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| Launched | 6 February 2006 |
| Owned by | Xiking Group |
| Headquarters | Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Rd, London W4 5YA |
| Website | propellertv.co.uk |
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| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 189 |
| Eutelsat 28A | 11344 V 27500 2/3 |
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| Freewire | Channel 190 |
Propeller TV is broadcast on SKY Channel 189 and is the premium channel for the UK-China community.
Recently Propeller TV was launched on the CIBN platform (China International Broadcasting Network) in China and continues to broadcast across a UK higher education television network covering 230,000 students.
The channel was created with UK government investment and began broadcasting in 2005. In 2009 Propeller TV was bought by the Xiking Group, Beijing.
Propeller TV relaunched during April 2013 with a new weekly schedule and content produced in both the UK and China.
The channel launched on 6 February 2006 on British Sky Broadcasting's satellite platform, Sky.
It was run by the Image Channel Company Ltd, a subsidiary of the Grimsby Institute in the United Kingdom until it was acquired in June 2009 by the Xiking Group, after six months of talks. There are plans to overhaul the channel and produce programmes promoting Chinese culture, brands and people, with some possibly broadcast in Chinese.
On 3 June 2007, Propeller TV began airing anime as part of its Anime Network block, which was produced by A.D. Vision.† The Anime Network block was aired 2 hours with 4 different anime series from 8:00pm to 10:00pm daily. Propeller TV ended its Anime Network block on 1 January 2008.
†Really, Propeller TV's Anime Network block turned out to be a British version of the 1st North American all-anime cable network, the Anime Network, now a joint venture between AEsir Media Group LLC and Valkyrie Media Partners LLC and formerly a division of A.D. Vision from its foundation in 2002 up until 1 September 2009. 1 January 2008 was the same day Anime Network discontinued its 24/7 linear service to continue to support a VOD service on its main website too. Currently, the network focuses on anime & Japanese films property of Section23 Films, Sentai Filmworks, AEsir Holdings, Maiden Japan, Nozomi Entertainment (currently unstreamed, however the Section23, Sentai, AEsir and Maiden Japan are streamed on VOD) and Kraken Releasing, and formerly of ADV Films, a division of the producer of the Anime Network UK block, A.D. Vision.
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