More4 is a digital television channel, produced by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. It is carried on Freeview, on satellite broadcaster Sky Digital (Timeshift has been available on Sky Digital since 17 October 2005) and on UK and Republic of Ireland cable networks including Virgin Media. Image File history File links More4 logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... UPC Ireland N.V. is Liberty Global Europes operation in Ireland. ... Tiscali TV is a UK-based consumer Video on Demand service. ... 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... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Virgin Media Inc. ...

Content

More4 centres around lifestyle, documentary, and arts programming, and competes with the BBC's similar offering, BBC Four. More4 airs from 9am untill 2am it's old hours 12noon to 4am change in late 2006/early 2007. The channel's annual budget is £33 million, of which £20 million is earmarked for original programming. Peter Dale, Channel 4's current head of documentary events and the new channel's chief said it would be "television that restarts the conversation". BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 – its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ...

To encourage new viewers to try the new service, Channel 4 moved its first-run showing of The West Wing, showing season 6 and 7 back to back, from its sister digital station E4 to More4 and Without a Trace from Channel 4. The channel also carries other American imports such as The Daily Show, the fourth and fifth series of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and repeats of Channel 4 programmes including game show Deal or No Deal, reality TV show Brat Camp, investigative series Dispatches, and the controversial Body Shock. A half-hour long news programme, hosted by current Channel 4 News presenter Sarah Smith, shows on weekdays at 8 p.m., and is intended to complement the main hour long Channel 4 news program that immediately precedes it on the original Channel 4. Daytime content includes classic films and reruns of shows such as Hill Street Blues and ER, although the current series of ER is shown on neighbouring channel E4. The West Wing is a popular and widely acclaimed American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin and produced and co-written by John Wells. ... E4 share of viewing BARB figures E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. ... Without a Trace is an American television show set in New York City. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that List of awards won by The Daily Show be merged into this article or section. ... Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American sitcom starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David. ... This article is about the television genre. ... This article is about the United Kingdom version of the game show. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... Brat Camp is a reality TV show about a group of some six or seven misbehaved teenagers, who are sent away to a special camp, usually located in the Utah desert, for misbehaving teens. ... A dispatch can be: A report sent to a newspaper by a correspondent. ... The Channel 4 News logo after the headline stab. ... A nice girl who lives in the best town ever, and loves all of her frineds to death <3 ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ... ER is a long-running, award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... E4 may refer to: E4, the postcode for Chingford. ...

The station also carries Morgan Spurlock's reality TV show 30 Days and American dramas such as The Closer. The channel features a nightly discussion programme Starkey's Last Word hosted by David Starkey during the Autumn line-up. This show was originally called The Last Word and hosted alternately by Stanley Johnson, Mark Dolan, Hardeep Singh Kohli and David Mitchell and occasional special guest hosts such as Morgan Spurlock. Morgan V. [1] Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonalds food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day... 30 Days is a reality television show on FX, created and introduced by Morgan Spurlock. ... The Closer is an American television police drama series. ... David Robert Starkey (born January 3, 1945) is one of Englands best-known historians, and a specialist in the Tudor period. ... Stanley Johnson Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940 in Cornwall) is a British politician including being a Conservative MEP from 1979 to 1984, noted advocate of population control, and father of Boris Johnson. ... Mark Dolan (born October 17, 1969) is the presenter of the British Television Series Balls of Steel and also stars in The Richard Taylor Interviews. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England[1]) is an English comedian, actor and writer. ... Morgan V. [1] Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonalds food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day...

On midweek days, it shows hour long and feature length documentaries including Channel 4's Cutting Edge films. On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn. It has been suggested that Drama Documentary be merged into this article or section. ... David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole United Kingdom (including Scotland and Northern Ireland). ... Kimberly Quinn (born 1961 as Kimberly Solomon, also formerly known as Kimberly Fortier) is an American journalist, commentator, and magazine publisher. ...

In April 2006, More4 broadcast a live hypnosurgery hernia operation. April 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ... Hypnosurgery is the term given to an operation where the patient is sedated using hypnotherapy rather than traditional anaesthetics. ... A hernia is often likened to the failure of a tire. ...

Channel launch

Channel 4's "adult entertainment" More4 advertising

In September 2005 Channel 4 began running teaser trailers for the new station (although the name was neither mentioned nor seen in the adverts). Showing neon lettering, the teasers hinted at "adult entertainment". Some people may have been confused by the deliberate double-meaning of these trailers and mistakenly presumed that the new channel will be of a pornographic nature. The Daily Mail refused to accept launch advertising for the channel on these grounds. Image File history File links Dnmwci. ... Image File history File links Dnmwci. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper first published in 1896. ...

Advertisements starting at the end of September made it much clearer that the "adult entertainment" being offered was the 'intelligent and insightful' programming.

Viewing figures for the launch date gave More4 an average figure of 269,000 viewers, compared to E4's 296,000. E4 share of viewing BARB figures E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. ...

Availability

Space was reserved on Freeview multiplex C for the channel. However, despite Channel 4 saying that the channel would appear on multiplex C, the Channel has appeared on multiplex 2. A place holder appeared on the Freeview EPG at number 13 on 13 September and after a time, ran a looping teaser trailer. More4+1 became available on the DTT platform on 14 December 2005. It was removed on 18 May 2006, to make way for live coverage of Big Brother, and the Freeview launch of Film4 later in the year. Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... The Sky Digital EPG in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (139th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Big Brother UK series 7, broadcast in 2006, is the seventh season of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live an isolated existence in a purpose-built house who try to avoid being evicted by public vote, with... Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ...

While More4 is available on most cable platforms, More4+1 is also available on NTL but not Telewest. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Virgin Media, Telewest and Virgin. ... Telewest (formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications) is a trading name of NTL Incorporated, the dominant cable operator in the United Kingdom with more than 90% of the market. ...

Despite initial advertising and official internet communication that it would be free-to-air on satellite television, More4 is encrypted under Sky Digital's pay TV scheme, and is not even available as free-to-view. Channel 4 blame the encryption on BSkyB, Sky Digital's operator, and not themselves. More4 remains a free-to-air channel on Digital terrestrial television. Note that Film4 and Film4+1 are now both free-to-air on Sky Digital. Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ... Free-to-view (FTV) is a term used in the United Kingdom for certain television channels on the Sky Digital satellite platform which require a working VideoGuard receiver and viewing card to decrypt the signals, but do not require any form of continual subscription. ... British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, which merged) is a company that operates the most popular subscription television service in the Ireland. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ...

More4 is available to viewers in the Republic of Ireland via Sky Digital and NTL Ireland's digital service. This led to further speculation that Channel 4 would eventually launch on Sky Digital in the Republic of Ireland, which it did in December 2006. C4 has already made its other flagship channels: E4, E4+1, Film4 and Film4+1 available in Ireland via Sky Digital, NTL and Chorus digital TV providers. Channel 4 itself is available on almost all Irish cable and MMDS systems (a very small number of Chorus towns in Wicklow and Wexford carry S4C instead). NTL Communications (Ireland) Limited is a cable television and MMDS company in the Republic of Ireland. ... December 2006 is the twelfth and final month of the year and will begin in 2 day(s). ... E4 share of viewing BARB figures E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ... NTL Communications (Ireland) Limited is a cable television and MMDS company in the Republic of Ireland. ... Chorus Communications is a communications provider in Ireland, it offers internet, television and telephone services. ... Multichannel multipoint distribution service, also known as MMDS or wireless cable, is a wireless telecommunications technology, used for general-purpose broadband networking or, more commonly, as an alternative method of cable television programming reception. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ... S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru, which is Welsh for Channel Four Wales) is a television channel in Wales. ...

See also

• Channel 4
• E4
• Film4
• List of British television channels

It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... E4 share of viewing BARB figures E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ... This is a list of channels available on digital aerial, satellite, internet streaming and cable systems. ...

References

• BBC report on More4
• Digital Spy report
• CultTV report on More4
• BBC 'Viewers attack More4 scrambling'

External links

• More4 at channel4.com
• Official More4 News blog at channel4.com
• Press release announcing the new channel at channel4.com
• Channel 4's content commissioning page for More4 at channel4.com
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart strikes syndication deal with Channel 4

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UK TV weekly viewing share 1992-2007

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ITV Network share 1992-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 44 KB, MIME type: image/png) ITV1 share of viewing 1992-2007 from BARB figures I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ...	ITV2 share 2000-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 24 KB, MIME type: image/png) ITV 2 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... ITV2 is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ...	ITV3 share 2004-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) ITV 3 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... ITV3 is an entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ...	ITV4 share 2005-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 17 KB, MIME type: image/png) ITV 4 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... ITV4 is a UK television station which launched on November 1, 2005. ...
Channel 4 share 1992-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 35 KB, MIME type: image/png) Channel 4 share of viewing 1992-2007 based on BARB figures I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ...	E4 share 2001-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 22 KB, MIME type: image/png) E4 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... E4 share of viewing BARB figures E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. ...	Film4 share 1998-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 17 KB, MIME type: image/png) Film4 share of viewing. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ...	More4 share 2005-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 16 KB, MIME type: image/png) More4 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
Five share 1997-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 26 KB, MIME type: image/png) five share of viewing since launch 1997-2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ...	UKTV Gold share 1992-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 31 KB, MIME type: image/png) UKTV Gold share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... UKTV Gold, (previously known as UK Gold until March 8, 2004), is a British television channel that shows mainly classic BBC entertainment programmes. ...	UKTV History share 2002-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/png) UKTV History viewing figures I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... UKTV History, known as UK History until 8 March 2004, is a British television channel, launched on 30 October 2002, to coincide with the launch of the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform. ...	BSkyB share 1995-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/png) BSkyB total viewing figures 1995-2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Sky One share 1992-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/png) Sky One share of viewing 1992-2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...	Sky Three share 2005-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 16 KB, MIME type: image/png) Sky Three share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Sky Three is a television station for the UK from BSkyB, designed to accompany their existing Sky One and Sky Two (formerly known as Sky Mix) subscription channels. ...	Sky Movies share 2000-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 26 KB, MIME type: image/png) All Sky Movies share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Sky Movies is the collective name for the British premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, later British Sky Broadcasting. ...	Sky Sports share 2000-2007 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/png) Sky Sports viewing figures I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of 9 channels. ...

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