Bubble Hits is an Irish owned digital television music channel owned by Creative Sounds. It is currently only available on satellite, mainly Sky Digital, to both Ireland and the UK. The company, and their studios are located in Ashbourne, County Meath. ^{[1] [2]} Image File history File links Size of this preview: 130 × 88 pixelsFull resolution (130 × 88 pixel, file size: 3 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Bubble Hits TV UK Logo from http://www. ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

The channel is broadcast free-to-air, therefore viewers do not need to have a Sky subscription to view the channel. Despite being Irish-owned, it is not licenced by the BCI but instead by the UK's Ofcom to "Creative Sounds UK", who are based in Northchapel. This is not unheard of amongst Irish channels, as well as those from other countries with restrictive broadcasting legislation, such as Sweden. It is presumably due to BCI's requirements that, what is viewed as an unjustifiably high, percentage of programming must be Irish produced. The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) is the regulator of the commercial broadcasting sector in Ireland. ... Ofcom is a regulator for communication industries in the United Kingdom. ... Northchapel is a village in Chichester District in West Sussex, England. ...

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The channel will be broadcasting throughout Europe by late 2007.

Shows on Bubble Hits

• Bubble Euro Top 30- European chart show
• iBubble- interactive request show
• Bubble Fresh- brand new video show
• Pop Pop Pop- non-stop pop video show sponsored by Ryanair.com
• Most Wanted- daily chart show of the highest requested songs of the day
• Bubble Irish Top 30- weekly look at the national chart for the Republic of Ireland
• Bubble Showbiz Gossip- hourly entertainment updates

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Presenters

• Glenda Gilson
• Enda Caldwell

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References

1. ^ http://www.cro.ie
2. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2320054_1,00.html

External links

• Official site
• Bubble Hits' MySpace page