LIVINGtv is a Britishtelevision channel owned by Flextech. Originally Launched as UK Living and loosely affiliated with UK Gold, the channel changed its name to LivingTV in 1997, later adopting the present capitalisation, to dissassociate itself from the UKTV network that launched that year.
The channel's programming is aimed mainly at women but is increasing its reach in a bid to become "the 6th Channel".
In 2001, LIVINGtv launched a whole new genre of paranormal programming with such shows as Crossing Over with John Edward, 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry and Most Haunted, which continues to be a ratings winner.
TV dramas were also produced, with heavy political tones -- "A Bite of Cabbage Cake" contrasted life under the Nationalists before 1949 with life under the Communists.
The Shanghai TV station begins broadcasting in October; over the next two years, sixteen provinces would set up TV stations (this number would double by 1975; there were 202 stations by 1985, and 980 by 2000).
TV stations were under tight control: Between 1967 and 1976, the only so-called "entertainment programs" shown on Chinese television were eight revolutionary model operas.
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