Speed Auction
| Speed Auction | |
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| Launched | 27 July 2005 |
| Owned by | Bid Shopping |
| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
| Formerly called | Speed Auction TV (2005-2011) |
| Replaced | Screenshop 2 |
| Sister channel(s) | Bid Price Drop |
| Website | www.speedauction.tv |
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| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 665 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 746 |
| Smallworld Cable | Channel 704 |
Speed Auction is a British television shopping channel based in the UK that runs daily live reverse auctions. The channel is owned by Bid Shopping.
Speed Auction is live seven days a week from 5pm to 12am, showing simulcasts of Bid (7:45am-5pm) and Price Drop (12am-1:30am) during its downtime with the regular appearance of Screenshop from 1:30am to 7:45am.
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[edit] History
The channel launched on 27 July 2005, replacing the original Screenshop 2 channel. The channel broadcast between 8am and 1am. Live rising price auctions were only available Wednesday to Sunday between 4pm to 8pm and 9pm to midnight. Pre-recorded auctions were available the remainder of the time.
Between 13 October 2009 and 17 January 2012, the channel was also available on the Freesat platform.
Prior to the launch of the channel, the format of rising price auctions were first available on Bid TV (Bid-Up.TV at the time) between its launch in October 2000 and January 2005. However, when the channel changed its format to focus primarily on falling price auctions, the Speed Auctions became pre-recorded. In July 2005, Speed Auction TV launched, which took an all responsibility for the rising price auctions. As a response, the "Speed Auctions" slot on Bid TV was axed. Since then, Bid TV has no longer shown rising price auctions.
[edit] The flip of the arrow
In October 2005, the format of the channel was changed to purely focusing on falling price auctions. However, unlike Price-Drop TV and Bid TV, the channel sold its lots with a smaller quantity in each auction and in a shorter period of time, justifying the word "speed" in its name. The live broadcasting hours were still the same as the previous rising price format, and the pre-recorded slots were still being filled in with rising price auctions.
On 3 March 2006, it returned to its original rising price auction format. The hours were unchanged and pre-recorded slots are still filled with rising price auctions.
The channel changed its format for a 2nd time to falling priced auctions on 26 March 2008.[1] 26 March 2008 was also the day when Speed Auction TV extended its live broadcast hours. They are available live Wednesdays to Mondays 7:45am to 1:30am and Tuesdays from 1:30pm to 1:30am, with the channel showing Screenshop during its downtime. The channel continued to sell a variety of products continuously throughout the day, without any particular themes shows.
Since then, the channel has no longer shown any live or pre-recorded rising price auctions.
[edit] Summer 2009
Since Summer 2009, it now operates like its sister channels by selling products through themed hours meaning there were more similar products being sold during a time. Some of the themes include Electrical Store, Jewellery Extravaganza, Outlet Live, Fashion Store and Home Makeover. Sometimes the themes last up to four hours. Since November 2009, the whole of the output on the channel was based on Outlet Live meaning the price went to a clearance price with quantities much lower than usual. Although after the Christmas period, they returned to their normal falling price auctions.
[edit] Speed Auction (2011-present)
On 1 August 2011, 'Speed Auction TV' changed it's name to 'Speed Auction' dropping the 'TV' part of their name.[2] Along with the new name, new buying graphics were introduced on all three Bid Shopping channels and new idents compromising of different 3D products flying around the new logo designs were shown. The new design was created to make buying easier for the viewer. At the same time as the new channel design, multi-buy was introduced on certain products where the viewer can select to buy more than one product at the same time (p&p is still applied to each item).
On 1 February 2012, Speed Auction 'relaunched' with a new studio and the return of the gavel, although they still use the same falling price dynamic.
[edit] Auctioneers
When Speed Auction TV was rising, it was launched by auctioneers Lynn Taylor, Cris St Valery and Marian Okai. All three original hosts of Speed Auction TV have moved to other sit-up channels. Lynn moved back to Bid TV whilst Cris and Marian moved to Price-Drop TV.
The first two presenters to move channels were Lynn and Cris. The vacancies left by the reshuffle were filled by two new "auctioneers", Steve McDonald and Hannah Patterson. The next major change happened when Steve McDonald and Marian Okai moved to other sit-up channels. Adèle Sica of Price-Drop TV, and Lisa Brash of Bid TV replaced them. On Sunday, 13 August 2006, Hannah Patterson left to help launch Price Busters TV. In September 2006, Adèle Sica became freelance and moved back primarily to Price-Drop TV. Lisa Brash also decided to become freelance in late 2006. On 17 August 2006, Cindy Humphrey (formerly of Price-Drop TV) replaced Hannah Patterson and Far Mani replaced Adèle Sica. In mid-2007, Gemma Hadley (formerly of Bid TV) started regular shifts in the times previously filled in by freelance presenters. In late August 2007, Hannah Patterson returned on a freelance basis. From Wednesday October 3, 2007, Dave Armstrong has filled in the times which Far Mani used to present - Far now presents early mornings on Price-Drop TV.
Since the launch of the falling price format on the channel, we have seen the introduction of Lindsey Gundersen, Kathryn Camsey, Justin Hazell and Chris Rhodes.
Current permanent presenters
- Chris Rhodes
- Cindy Humphrey
- Marie Greenwood
- Nicola George
- Sophie Kostrowski
- James Gardner
- Chris Birkett
- Mike Smith
- Far Mani
- Nick Saich
Freelance presenters
- Michelle Livings
- Sean Macintosh
- Charlie McArdle
- Lisa Brash
- Adèle Sica
- Mark Ryes
- Andy Oliver
- Carmel Thomas
- Far Mani
- Gemma Hadley
- Cris St Valery
- Charlotte Mounter
- Nick Saich
- Lee Jason
- Elaine Harris
- Gemma Scott
- Simon Davies
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.speedauction.tv/fallingprice.htm Change to falling price information page on the Speed Auction TV website.
- ^ "We’re having a makeover! We’d love to hear what you think…". Bid TV. 25 July 2011. http://news.bid.tv/index.php/bid-rebrand-hear-what-you-think/.
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