BBC Lifestyle
BBC Lifestyle is an international television channel wholly owned by BBC Studios. The channel provides six programming strands: Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, and Personal Development.
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Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | South Africa, Asia and Poland |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC Studios |
Sister channels | BBC World News BBC Brit BBC HD BBC Earth CBeebies BBC First |
History | |
Launched | 1 July 2007 |
Replaced | BBC Food |
Closed | 6 January 2016 | (Nordic Regions)
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Cable | |
Cable TV Hong Kong | Channel 760 (SD) Channel 720 (HD) |
UPC Poland | Channel 109 |
HTVC (Vietnam) | Channel 86 |
Cablelink (Philippines) | Channel 226 |
Destiny Cable/SkyCable (Philippines) | Channel 78 (Digital) |
TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 353 (SD/HD) |
Macau Cable TV (Macau) | Channel 213 |
Satellite | |
n (Poland) | Channel 134 (HD) |
DStv (Africa) | Channel 174 (HD) |
OSN (MENA) | Channel 219 (SD) |
Skylife (South Korea) | Channel 132 |
Tata Sky (India) | Channel 223 |
TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 353 (SD/HD) |
Indovision | Channel 246 |
CANAL+ (Myanmar) | Channel 126 |
IPTV | |
now TV (Hong Kong) | Channel 502 (HD) |
SK B TV (South Korea) | Channel 546 |
Unifi TV (Malaysia) | Channel 620 (HD) (old) Channel 512 (HD) (new) |
CHT MOD (Taiwan) | Channel 260 (HD) |
myTV Super (Hong Kong) | Channel 605 (HD) |
FPT (Vietnam) | Channel 66 |
StarHub TV (Singapore) | Channel 432 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
BBC Player | watch online (Singapore and Malaysia only) |
Unifi Play TV | watch online (Malaysia only) |
On 1 August 2019, BBC Lifestyle along with BBC Earth new look.
Launch dates
BBC Lifestyle first launched in Singapore on mio TV in July 2007 (it is now on Singtel TV). It is also available in Hong Kong on now TV, in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform, where it launched in December 2007, and in Romania on Digi TV digital cable television, where it launched on 31 December 2010. It has been available on DStv in South Africa and on OSN in the Middle East and North Africa since September 2008. Since then, it has also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008, where it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem, Telia Digital-TV and FastTV.
On June 2009, hollywoodreporter.com cited the lack of viewership on SingTel's mio TV as the reason that the British Broadcasting Corporation terminated the right to air BBC Lifestyle, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC Knowledge under permission registered BBC from 19 March 2009 to 15 December 2009.[1] The BBC has since sourced StarHub TV as an alternative offering. Thus BBC Lifestyle is now on channel 432 on StarHub TV.
BBC Lifestyle ceased broadcast in the Nordic region on 6 January 2016.[2]
Programming
References
- "Hollywood Reporter - Entertainment News". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- "BBC Nordic FAQ".