Diva TV
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| Diva TV | |
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| Launched | 1 October 2007 |
| Owned by | NBC Universal |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 4:3) |
| Audience share | 0.0% (February 2008, [1]) |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Website | www.divatv.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 282 |
| Cable | |
| 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.[2]
The channel airs shows such as the Late Show With David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Rachael Ray.
CBS Daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful returns to British Television screens on Diva TV for the first time since 2003.
The channel also airs Picket Fences, a show previously aired on the Hallmark Channel (UK).
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]
[edit] 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. 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. 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. 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.
[edit] References
- ^ "Diva TV has arrived", Late Show UK. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "UKTV Drama timeshift added to VM lineup", Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Viva La Diva TV", Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
