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| Launched | 1 October 2007 |
| Owned by | NBC Universal |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 4:3) |
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| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Website | www.divatv.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 282 |
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| Virgin Media | Channel 192 |
Diva TV is a British TV channel owned by NBC Universal, which launched on Sky Digital channel 282 at midday on the 1 October 2007[1] and launched on Virgin Media channel 192 on the 23 October 2007. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting 's digital Satellite television service transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28 Virgin Media Inc (formerly known as ntlTelewest, after a merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global Inc The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The term television channel generally refers to either a Television station or its cable / satellite counterpart (both outlined below NBC Universal Global Networks is a part of NBC Universal. In 2007 NBC Universal acquired Sparrowhawk Media Group which at the time was a British Private equity Virgin Media Inc (formerly known as ntlTelewest, after a merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global Inc [2]
The channel airs shows such as the Late Show With David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Rachael Ray. The Late Show with David Letterman is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States syndicated Talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a Daytime Emmy Award winning talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the
CBS Daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful returns to British Television screens on Diva TV for the first time since 2003. CBS Daytime (CBSD is a television programming block on CBS. Executives CBSD's Senior Vice President is Barbara Bloom, its Vice President is The Bold and the Beautiful (often abbreviated to B&B) is an American Television Soap opera.
The channel also airs Picket Fences, a show previously aired on the Hallmark Channel (UK). Picket Fences is a 60-minute television drama centering around the residents of the fictional community of Rome Wisconsin. The Hallmark Channel is a British TV channel owned by NBC Universal, with the Hallmark brand used under licence from Crown Media
Diva TV broadcasts the Late Show with David Letterman on weeknights in a full uncut one hour version at 9:00pm with a "Best of the Week" repeats at 10:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Episodes shown on Diva TV were shown in the US two weeks previously.
A timeshift channel is set to be launched in 2008[3]
Earlier Use of the Name "Diva TV"
An earlier use of the name Diva TV was by an lesbian video activist collective founded in New York City in 1989. A timeshift channel is a television channel carrying a time-delayed rebroadcast of its "parent" channel's output The name was an acronym for “Damned Interfering Video Activist Television”. It was an affinity Group of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and its legacy is to have preserved many of ACT UP's demonstrations, civil disobedience actions and public reaction to the group from the streets of New York as the AIDS crisis unfolded there. ACT UP, or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse non-partisan group of individuals. ACT UP, or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse non-partisan group of individuals. Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain Laws demands and commands of a Government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical Members of Diva TV identified themselves as partisan activists who created media in the same way participants in the Indymedia movement would fifteen years later -- or in the same way Third World Newsreel did in the 1960s using earlier 8-mm film technology. The Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or IMC) is a global participatory network of journalists that reports on political and social issues Third World Newsreel is an American media center and film distribution company based in New York City and established in 1967 as Newsreel. Selected clips from Diva TV's ACT-UP films can be viewed on their website. A videotape archive of their work can be viewed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, and another is available at the New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.
References
- ^ "Diva TV has arrived", Late Show UK. Retrieved on 2007-10-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC -
- ^ "UKTV Drama timeshift added to VM lineup", Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2007-10-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC -
- ^ "Viva La Diva TV", Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2007-10-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC -
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