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UKTV Gold


Channel HistoryUKTV Gold (2004-2008)

Last updated 17 February 2015
UK Gold was a channel created by the BBC/Thames Television on British Sky Broadcasting on 1st November 1992, with the aim to provide a chennel to showcase repeats of their best programmes, not least of which was Doctor Who. Exactly five years later the chennel became part of the UKTV Network, owned jointly by the BBC and Flextech, which included UK Arena, UK Horizons and UK Style.

UK Gold Classics was launched in October 1998 to take on programming that was slowly being ousted from the main channel is it moved towards contemporary programming. The channel was quickly rebranded UK Gold 2 on 2nd April 1999 during which it repeated Uk Gold's Doctor Who programming in the early evening; it was later rebranded UK G2 in 2003. Meanwhile, a +1 channel for UK Gold was launched on 1st August 2002, though only operating between 7pm and 7am.

During 2008 the whole network went through a rebranding and repositioning exercise, with UK G2 becoming known as Dave from October 2007, and on 7th October 2008 UK Gold was transformed into two channels, the comedy-oriented G.O.L.D. (aka Go On Laugh Daily), and drama-focused Watch (on which Doctor Who continues to this day).