Rick checks out various curious items including a 19th-century Hobbs & Co lock box and an original Woody Woodpecker painting. World War II: Witness To War. TBC. The only way for him to hang onto his throne was to invade Britannia. Sign up now to receive email updates on new series, features, and more from your favourite HISTORY shows To mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, this new documentary series recalls the race not only to win WWII but to gain power and an ideological stronghold. 11th September. It launched on 30 October 2002 as UK History and relaunched in its current format on 2 March 2009. In the UK, on digital terrestrial television, Yesterday, Dave and Drama are available on the Freeview platform, and selected parts of Gold, Home and Good Food were available through the now defunct Top Up TV service. Thursday. On 8 December 2015 Yesterday became available on Freesat together with two of its UKTV sister channels Drama and former sister channel, Yesterday moved to channel 25 on Freeview, a space previously occupied by its former sister channel
A 1906 silver half dollar that belonged to a passenger on the Titanic sails into the shop. Disasters Engineered. The channel originally launched on 30 October 2002 as The channel was available full-time on all platforms until 15 October 2007 when the hours were reduced on the Freeview platform, resulting in the channel stopping broadcasting at 6As part of a network wide programme of relaunching all the UKTV channels under unique names and brands, the channel was renamed as Since 24 July 2012, Yesterday offers more entertainment-led content along with a design refresh, which includes a new logo and idents, in order to attract a wider and younger audience, along with a new slogan, "Entertainment Inspired By History".In late 2014, Yesterday began slowly decreasing the amount of comedy and drama shown on the channel and branching out into more factual content, with notable additions including natural history, science and engineering alongside the classic slate of history programming. Meanwhile, Corey checks out some motorcycle art. 10th September. The majority of the channel's programmes are sourced from the BBC programme archives; however, some are bought in from other terrestrial stations and some productions are commissioned by UKTV themselves. 9pm. UKTV teamed up with a number of advertisers to measure the effect of reductions in advertising spots, programme trailers and the number of breaks overall.In February 2004, UKTV reduced the length of its ad breaks in a bid to retain viewers and attract advertisers after results of its research show that shorter breaks produce higher advertising recall levels. To know History is to know life. How We Got Here. Launching on iOS in August,UKTV has also had many former channels which have been replaced by others. Friday. With Alan Ereira, Philip Huzzey. Yesterday is a history channel. Scripps paid £239m in cash, and about £100m to acquire the outstanding preferred stock and debt owed by UKTV to Virgin Media.UKTV announced on 18 March 2013 that it would reintroduce its company brand in celebration of its 21st year.For almost three weeks in summer 2018, the UKTV channels were absent from On 1 April 2019, Discovery Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications, which had acquired Scripps Networks Interactive in 2018) announced that BBC Studios would acquire its stakes in the seven entertainment-based UKTV channels for £173 million, and the BBC's stakes in the remaining channels Good Food, Home, and Really. On 7th December 1941, Pearl Harbour is attacked by the Japanese, who kill more than 2,000 Americans. Discovery History. Codes and Conspiracies. It shows how the history of the UK was reflected by the history of their monarchs. From 8 March, Its junctions were limited to a maximum of five minutes, with three-and-a-half minutes of commercial plus one-and-a-half minutes of promotional material, instead of a standard seven-and-a-half minutes.UKTV's move was similar to a solution suggested by PHD executive strategy director Louise Jones at 2003 UKTV's channels are available via satellite and cable in In June 2014 UKTV launched its first digital-only brand, a catch-up service, UKTV Play. Then you've come to the right place.Find out more about Yesterday's current or previous competitions.Find out more about the history of one of the world's biggest celebrations.We look at the life and times of some of our most famous historical figures.