To set it apart from its video-on-demand (VOD) competitors, which typically market themselves based upon popular shows, UKTV is now promoting the Play brand as “warm, inviting and friendly.“ Going ...

Channel 4 and UKTV have announced a multi-year carriage agreement that will offer audiences thousands of hours of free content from UKTV’s U service via Channel 4 streaming. The deal enhances the ...

UKTV has revealed its recently renamed streaming service U (previously UKTV Play) more than doubled its views between January 2023 and December 2024. During 2024, the platform saw views increase by 34 ...

Covid-19 may have sparked a period of profound disruption and uncertainty, but could this actually be the perfect time for reinvention? That’s the thinking at UKTV. Rather than pulling the focus off ...

Nearly three weeks after Virgin Media customers lost 10 UKTV channels as a result of a rights row between the two, a new deal has been reached that will see the channels back where they belong. Dave, ...

UKTV has revealed plans to launch a new masterbrand in Summer 2024 that will unite its family of free-to-air channels and its free streaming service. U, as it will be called, will see its current ...

The broadcaster behind channels including Dave, Gold and Drama has renewed its satellite capacity agreement. UKTV has extended its contract with SES at the key 28.2 degrees East neighbourhood through ...

Multichannel programmer UKTV enjoyed a year of record growth in 2021, achieving its best-ever SOCI (share of commercial impacts) and network share for its seven channel portfolio – Dave, Drama, Gold, ...

The brief called for an "energising, bold and honest look and feel" that would bring the channel proposition to life and help shift viewer perceptions, particularly with the channel's male audience.

Discovery has added a raft of U.K. lifestyle channels to its lineup, and BBC Studios a cluster of entertainment offerings, after the pair completed their UKTV deal. The UKTV channels group was ...

EXCLUSIVE: More change afoot in the BBC Studios/UKTV acquisitions team as exec Roxana Rehman is upped to take on the Global Acquisitions Manager role revealed by Deadline several weeks ago. Rehman, a ...

Wed, June 12, 2019 at 9:10 AM UTC The UKTV deal sees BBC Studios pay U.S.-listed Discovery £173 million ($220 million) for full ownership of entertainment nets Alibi, Dave, Drama, Eden, Gold, W and ...