Talk:Sky Witness

6th Channel
Which channels is it bidding against to become the so-called "6th channel"? I would suggest that Sky 1 was already the "6th channel", behind the standard 5 terrestrial offerings.

Actually ITV2 and ITV3 were the most watched channels after Five last month. Sky1 and Sky Sports 1 are the most watched paid-for channels. With viewing figures less than half than these channels, I cannot imagine how Living TV would be the "6th channel". source:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.217.67 (talk) 21:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Untrue statements of viewing figures
I've removed the following text; Most Haunted Live was the most watched show out of every terrestrial and digital channel on Halloween 2004.

Not only is this untrue, it's ridiculous. The show received nearly 3 million viewers, that wouldn't even put it in he Top 10 for Halloween. Shows like Eastenders and Coronation Street regularly get more than 12 million viewers, let's keep this within the realms of reality. 172.209.90.158 18:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

New logo, new name
Looking at TV Forum people are talking about that LIVINGtv will have a new logo (Image there), and will change its name to just 'Living'. for the luanch of Virgin Media —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AxG (talk • contribs) 10:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

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New REF
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/women-s-channel-launched-with-a-crucial-eye-on-controversy-1.745997

Women's channel launched with a crucial eye on controversy

From the archive

Thursday 19 August 1993

A NEW satellite TV station aimed mainly at women was launched yesterday.

UK Living starts broadcasting on September 1 with an investment of #25m and a range of presenters including ex-Eldorado nightclub singer Polly Perkins and EastEnder Michelle Collins.

Head of programmes is Lis Howell, who left GMTV after the station had been on the air for less than two months -- and just three days after former TV-am supremo Greg Dyke became company chairman.

Ms Howell -- who was credited with the invention of GMTV's controversial F-factor for fanciability, said there would be no need for UK Living presenters to have on-screen chemistry -- they are all women.

She was unrepentent about her F-factor policy at GMTV -- but went on: ''It doesn't apply here because presenters will be operating individually and you can't have sexual chemistry on your own.

''But I still think the F-factor is great and I am still a firm believer that appearance on TV matters.

However, the chemistry that will matter here is between the presenter and the audience, and we have thought very carefully about how they should dress, what they should look like, and how they should appeal -- it's crucial.

Ms Howell, 41, said UK Living would have controversial moments because it intended to deal with contentious issues.

A unique aspect will be repeats of programmes such as Kilroy, Anne and Nick, and Floyd, which would be shown within a week of being transmitted on mainstream television.

Currently its sister station, UK Gold, repeats EastEnders and other shows, but episodes can date back several years.

Former TV-am host Kathryn Holloway, 32, who will present an agony aunt programme similar to the Oprah Winfrey Show, admitted that it might shock some of the audience by tackling problems in an adult way.

You might have a mother who comes home and finds her son dressed in her bra and knickers or a mistress talking about how she got involved with the man in her life, Ms Holloway said.

''It is not a family channel, it is women talking adult to adult. It will be the nuts and bolts of problems, but within the constraints of the ITC guidelines, which are actually quite broad.''

The station was designed neither for a mumsy market nor for rabid feminists as neither extreme reflected the majority of women in Britain, said Ms Holloway.

She pledged that she would look like a real person on-screen rather than the Barbie doll many women were made up to look like for TV cameras.

Women on TV have to be girl-next-door and non-controversial, she said.

''Most of them look as if they are in fancy dress. How many women do you know during the day who wear primrose yellow dresses, with big gold buttons?

''I look like a real person, there will be no teased hair, no lip-gloss. It's completely inappropriate to have someone looking like they've come off a Dynasty set when they're talking to a victim of a multiple rape.''

UK Living is owned by Thames Television and two American broadcasting companies, Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc.

It will be available on the BSkyB network and to homes connected to cable and will broadcast 18 hours a day, seven days a week. The potential audience is 3.6 million women, although it is also hoped men and teenagers will tune in.

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I've added a Subsidiary channels section.
I added a Extra section for the timeshift channels and and the hd channels Tommy Turnbull (talk) 12:26, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Separate article for Sky Living
When Sky Witness replaced Sky living, the content of the channel channel changed from being focussed on programming aimed at women to being more of a crime and reality-based channel. Therefore, I feel that Sky Living and Sky Witness should be covered in separate articles. If there are no objections then I will create a separate article for Sky Living - currently there is a redirect for Sky Living to Sky Witness. Rillington (talk) 13:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Looking back at when it launched it seems like it was clearly marked as a rebrand, and as others have said the content was already crime shows before the rebrand. I feel like it's been a gradual change in the channel contents, and choosing the name change as the cutoff point is pretty arbitrary. I kind of feel for this reason one article would be better. --Muzer (talk) 13:17, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

To be quite fair, the channel had already shifted their focus to crime shows even before being rebranded as Sky Witness. I never saw the point of doing a separate article for their former name at all. WhatGuy (talk) 07:49, 8 August 2022 (UTC)