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From 3 June 2008 onwards, Bravo along with the other Living TV Group owned channels began broadcasting in widescreen (16:9). This was coupled with a redesign of the on-screen graphic (the word BRAVO was shown rather than the logo).
From 3 June 2008 onwards, Bravo along with the other Living TV Group owned channels began broadcasting in widescreen (16:9). This was coupled with a redesign of the on-screen graphic (the word BRAVO was shown rather than the logo).


In May 2010, Virgin Media Television unveiled new channel branding for Bravo to coincide with major new series ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand''. It involved a new logo to "match the premium content and ambition of the channel" along with a new strapline, "Bravo: Home of the Brave".<ref>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a221094/vm-tv-unveils-brave-new-bravo-branding.html</ref>
On May 25 2010, Virgin Media Television unveiled new channel branding for Bravo to coincide with major new series ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand''. It involved a new logo to "match the premium content and ambition of the channel" along with a new strapline, "Bravo: Home of the Brave".<ref>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a221094/vm-tv-unveils-brave-new-bravo-branding.html</ref>


On January 1st 2011, Bravo ceased broadcasting on all platforms. It is believed that the channel's programming will be re-distributed and shown on other channels owned by BSkyB.
On January 1st 2011, Bravo ceased broadcasting on all platforms. It is believed that the channel's programming will be re-distributed and shown on other channels owned by BSkyB.

Revision as of 01:32, 15 February 2011

This article is about the UK channel. For the unrelated American TV network and Canadian TV channel, see Bravo (disambiguation).
Bravo
CountryUnited Kingdom
Ownership
OwnerLiving TV Group
(BSkyB)

Bravo was a British television channel, owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting. Its target audience was males in their late twenties to early forties and showed a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider and MacGyver) and original productions.

On 15 September 2010, BSkyB announced that it would close Bravo as well as sister channels Bravo 2.[1] The Bravo channels closed on 1 January 2011, with its most popular programmes moved to other Sky channels including Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Chuck, Leverage, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Star Trek, TNA Wrestling, Sun, Sea and A & E, Motorway Patrol, Highway Patrol and Caribbean Cops.[2]

History

Bravo's on-screen card after it ceased broadcasting.

Bravo underwent several revamps since it began broadcasting. Bravo started as a channel for mainly black & white programmes from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Avengers and many ITC Entertainment productions. A policy change to withdraw all of their black & white shows soon saw them move on to specialise in science fiction and horror before becoming known for showing crime documentaries by day and adult programming at night. Since then, it decreased the adult content and increased sports and imported shows like Alias. Bravo also aired World Championship Wrestling's flagship show Nitro during WCW's final year in business and also showed Extreme Championship Wrestling's show ECW Hardcore TV during ECW's final year in business.

On July 22, 1993, Bravo launched on the Astra 1C satellite in anticipation of the launch of Sky Multichannels in September 1993.[3] With the launch on Astra, the channel started broadcasting between noon and midnight, which it continued doing until February 3, 1997, when Trouble launched and took over the channel's afternoon and early evening broadcast hours, meaning Bravo would broadcast between 20:00 and 06:00. CNBC Europe (called EBN European Business News back then) timeshared with the channel on weekdays and Living on weekends until 2001.

On 28 August 2005, the channel started showing Serie A Italian football, bringing back the Channel 4 format Football Italia. However, poor viewing figures saw Bravo cancel first the weekly Gazetta Football Italia show, then announce it would stop showing Italian Football altogether after 23 December 2006 (it has since been taken up by Channel 5, and currently ESPN). The channel's other highest-profile sports coverage is its exclusive UK rights to Ultimate Fighting Championship archives as well as recent events (live rights are now held by ESPN), as well as related reality TV show The Ultimate Fighter. The network aired an Adult Swim block nightly at around midnight, until 7 July 2008.

From January 2007, Bravo's sister channel Bravo 2 had the exclusive UK rights to broadcast Total Nonstop Action Wrestling programming which consisted of only a two day delay from the American broadcast of the TNA weekly show "TNA Impact!" and a three day delay for the TNA Monthly Pay Per Views.[4] Since January 5, 2008, TNA Impact! was moved to Bravo, with replays of the show on Bravo 2.[5] Bravo's original contract for TNA Wrestling Programming was an 18 month contract and was distributed by RDA TV, and the deal was extended on 1 July 2008 for another 18 months which was once again negotiated by RDA TV.[6]

From 3 June 2008 onwards, Bravo along with the other Living TV Group owned channels began broadcasting in widescreen (16:9). This was coupled with a redesign of the on-screen graphic (the word BRAVO was shown rather than the logo).

On May 25 2010, Virgin Media Television unveiled new channel branding for Bravo to coincide with major new series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. It involved a new logo to "match the premium content and ambition of the channel" along with a new strapline, "Bravo: Home of the Brave".[7]

On January 1st 2011, Bravo ceased broadcasting on all platforms. It is believed that the channel's programming will be re-distributed and shown on other channels owned by BSkyB.

References

  1. ^ Sweney, Mark (15 September 2010). "BSkyB to close Bravo and Channel One". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Sky confirms Bravo shutdown date". Digital Spy. 22 November 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/NEWS/SCDX/scdx2184.txt
  4. ^ "TNA Wrestling to air on Bravo 2". Retrieved 2006-12-29.
  5. ^ "TNA confirms move to main Bravo channel". Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  6. ^ "TNA Wrestling extends deal with Bravo channels". Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  7. ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a221094/vm-tv-unveils-brave-new-bravo-branding.html


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