The Jewellery Channel
| The Jewellery Channel (TJC) | |
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| Launched | 4 April 2006 |
| Owned by | The Jewellery Channel UK Limited |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9) |
| Country |
United Kingdom Ireland |
| Headquarters | London |
| Website | www.tjc.co.uk |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview |
Channel 49 Channel 93 (TJC Choice) |
| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 808 (TJC Choice) Channel 809 |
| Sky | Channel 652 Channel 660 (TJC Choice) |
| Eutelsat 28A | 11390 V 27500 2/3 11222 H 27500 2/3 (TJC Choice) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 757 |
Channel 49
The Jewellery Channel (TJC) is a British falling-price auction-style home shopping channel and online retailer specialising in jewellery and gemstones. It is one of the main TV shopping channels in the UK. The channel launched on 4 April 2006, and currently broadcasts 24 hours a day.
The Jewellery Channel (TJC) is part of the Vaibhav Global Limited (VGL) group. The company mines and handcrafts many of the products sold on its TV networks, hence its claim to cut out the "middleman" and to attempt to undercut high-street prices.
On 14 January 2008, The Jewellery Channel moved from Teddington Studios to new purpose-built studios in Middlesex, simultaneously switching to widescreen-format broadcasting. It plans to broadcast in HDTV in the future.
On 11 April 2008, The Jewellery Channel launched delivery to the Republic of Ireland for the first time.
TJC sells a wide variety of gemstone jewellery, loose gemstones, watches, fashion jewellery and simulated gemstone pieces. They are one of the eight sightholders of the Tanzanite One mine.
They also sell their own jewellery brands:
They also have collaborated with some of the world famous brands:
The channel holds themed days such as 'Tanzanite Day'. It also holds discount days where it reduces the final auction prices by 10% or 17.5% (the latter the equivalent to the UK 17.5% VAT charge).
The firm launched an additional channel, TJC Gold, in October 2012 to offer more expensive gold and platinum collections. It runs for six hours a day.
TJC's website offers their full catalogue of products (approximately 15,000 items), online rising auctions, on-air auction products and web offers not available on-air; TJC's channel can be watched from the website. The TJC blog includes information on products, jewellery trends, interviews with guests, exclusive promotions and backstage 'gossip'. Its Facebook page which offers similar content to their blog, and also offers consumers the chance to interact with them.
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