Ftn (TV channel)

Ftn
Programming
Timeshift service	Ftn+1
Ownership
Owner	Virgin Media Television
History
Launched	15 January 2003
Closed	1 October 2007
Replaced by	Virgin1
Availability ; (at time of closure)
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 20
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 122 ; Channel 123 (+1)
UPC Ireland	Channel 129
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 153 ; Channel 154 (+1)

Ftn (Flextech Television Network) was a television channel from Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital. The channel broadcast between 6pm and 6am daily. It launched at 6pm on 15 January 2003, six hours after neighbouring Freeview channel, UKTV Bright Ideas, also partially owned by Virgin Media Television.

Ftn's schedule featured entertainment and reality programming, and also programming from other Virgin Media Television cable channels, such as Living, Living2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Trouble, and Challenge. This provides a preview to Freeview viewers of what the Virgin Media channels offer, in a similar fashion to BSkyB's Sky Three, a channel also on Freeview.

Ftn +1 launched on Sky and Virgin Media on 9 August, 2007. Despite being a one-hour timeshift, Ftn +1 only broadcast from 7pm until 1am, as which broadcasts on Ftn from 12am till 3am, couldn't be rebroadcast one hour later, for legal reasons.

Current programming[]

3-2-1
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
The Best Of Beadle's About
(Bravo and Bravo 2)
Booze Britain (Bravo and Bravo 2)
(Bravo)
Boston Legal (Living)
Celebrity Poker Club
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Close to Home^{[disambiguation needed]}
(Bravo)
(Bravo)
Da Vinci's Inquest
Dead Famous
Dilbert
Dog the Bounty Hunter
European Poker Tour
Fifteen to One
Fort Boyard
Ghost Towns^{[disambiguation needed]}
Gladiators

The L Word
Masters Of Horror
Most Haunted - (Series 1 to 7)
Most Haunted Almost Live!
Most Haunted Live!
Night Stalker
Nothing To Declare
Poker Superstars
Police Beat (Bravo and Bravo 2)
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sin Cities
Street Crime UK (Bravo and Bravo 2)
(from 5am-6am)
Telly Addicts
The Ultimate Fighter
The Warehouse
World Series of Poker
The X-Files

Participation TV[]

Previously The Great Big British Quiz broadcast nightly between the hours of 00:00 and 03:00am. (Big Game TV took this spot until April 2007) Between November 2005 and November 2006 Quiz Night Live broadcast from 22.00 - 01.00 daily only to be replaced by Ostrich Media's Quiz Call which ceased broadcasting on Ftn on 1 January 2007.

In June 2007, Live Roulette TV began broadcasting on Ftn between the hours of 00:00 and 03:00am.

Closure[]

It was announced in the summer of 2007 that Virgin Media Television was to launch a new channel, Virgin 1.^[1] The new channel launches on Monday 1 October, 2007.^[2] The channel is intended to be Virgin Media's attempt to rival Sky One.

As a result of this new channel, it was revealed the Ftn would close, leaving its EPG positions on Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview to Virgin 1.^[3]

Ftn closed on Monday 1 October, 2007 at 6am, with Virgin 1 launching at 9pm on the same day.^[4]

References[]

^ "Virgin Media Television announces Virgin 1". Virgin Media Press Office. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
^ "Virgin 1 launch date announced". Digital Spy. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-09-18.
^ "Launch of Virgin 1 on Freeview". Freeview.co.uk. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
^ "Ftn/Virgin 1 schedule (1 October 2007)". Radio Times. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

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[1] "Virgin Media Television announces Virgin 1". Virgin Media Press Office. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

[2] "Virgin 1 launch date announced". Digital Spy. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-09-18.

[3] "Launch of Virgin 1 on Freeview". Freeview.co.uk. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

[4] "Ftn/Virgin 1 schedule (1 October 2007)". Radio Times. Retrieved 2006-08-24.

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