| Men & Motors |
 | | Launched | October 1, 1996 | | Owned By | ITV plc | | Audience Share | 0.4% (Feb '06 [1]) | | Formerly Called | Granada Men & Motors | | Website | www.menandmotors.co.uk | | Availability | | Terrestrial | | Freeview | Ceased broadcasting (previously channel 35) | | ONdigital / ITV Digital | Ceased broadcasting (previously channel 31) | | Satellite | | Sky Digital | Channel 131 | | Cable | | Telewest | Channel 286 | | NTL | Channel 404 | | NTL | Channel 109 | Image File history File links Menmotors. ...
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Introduction
Men & Motors is a men's lifestyle television channel in the UK. It is the last remaining station operated by Granada Sky Broadcasting, a joint venture set up by Granada Television (now part of ITV plc) and British Sky Broadcasting in 1996. Although ITV plc is now the sole owner of GSB, Sky will receive 49.5 per cent of any proceeds (net of liabilities) if Men & Motors is sold. The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ...
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Carriage From it's launch, Men & Motors was a only available with subscription television services. Men & Motors was part of the original line-up (as a "primary channel" for digital terrestrial television service, ONdigital (part-owned by Granada). When ONdigital closed, Men & Motors left DTT and became a satellite- and cable-only channel. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels (SDTV) and/or better quality of picture (EDTV, HDTV) and sound (AC3, Dolby Digital) through a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ...
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Many years after the closure of ONdigital, ITV (the company formed by the merger of Carlton and Granada) successfully bid for a slot on digital terrestrial (DTT) multiplex D. It was announced that Men & Motors would be launched on Freeview on May 2, 2005. To co-incide with this launch, the channel was re-vamped, and it's late night, risqué adult content was replaced by archive drama, comedy and documentaries. The channel also dropped its Videoguard encryption on Sky Digital on 1 July 2005, switching to Free-to-air status. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ...
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ITV's plans to launch a channel aimed at men (the target audience of Men & Motors) were considered by many to be the end for Men & Motors. It seemed logical that Men & Motors would simply "become" ITV4 (scheduled to launch in Autumn 2005), with much of the channel's programming simply being shown under the ITV brand. With capacity on the Freeview platform limited, and to avoid being in competition for the same genre of viewers, this seemed the inevitable conclusion. However, available to a much wider audience, Men & Motors enjoyed a (slightly unexpectedly) sharp increase in viewing figures. ITV were faced with the conundrum of replacing a channel with a well-known brand and enjoying a new popularity with a new, seemingly identical channel. ITV4 instead replaced the ITV News Channel on Freeview (between its broadcasting hours of 18:00 to 06:00), with Men & Motors still available on its own 24-hour slot. The News channel closed soon after, due to major competition from Sky News and BBC News 24 and heavy financial losses. ITV4 is a UK television station which launched on November 1, 2005. ...
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After less than a year on Freeview, M&M has now been replaced. At 06:00 BST on 12 April 2006, Men & Motors ceased transmissions on digital terrestrial television. This was to allow ITV to launch new "participation television" channel, ITV Play, on Freeview. With limited bandwidth on the platform, and a desire to keep the entire ITV "family" (i.e. all channels carrying the ITV brand) on the free platform, Men & Motors is now only available on satellite and cable television. British Summer Time (BST), known in Ireland as Irish Summer Time (IST), is the daylight saving time in effect in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October each year. ...
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