Lifestyle (British TV channel)

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Lifestyle
Lifestyle (WHSTV UK) ident from 1987.jpg
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast areaEurope
Ownership
OwnerWHSTV (WHSmith)
Sister channelsLifestyle Satellite Jukebox
History
Launched30 October 1985
Closed24 January 1993[1]
Replaced byVOX
UK Living

Lifestyle was a British daytime television channel aimed at women and families. It was broadcast on cable and from February 1989 on transponder 5 of the Astra satellite.

The channel's logo originally consisted of 3D computer graphics forming a face before when it was relaunched in 1987, which changes to an animated pastel butterfly includes the signature flute tune within typifying its gentle pace and reflective colourful style.[2]

History[]

Lifestyle was launched on 30 October 1985 and initially available on various cable networks such as Rediffusion Cablevision in parts of the United Kingdom[3] and Cablelink in parts of Ireland.[4] Lifestyle's daytime lineup mainly consisted of magazines, novelas and movies within the programming was linked by an in-vision continuity announcer David Hamilton. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the channel was showing a range of classic American comedies, crime dramas (such as Divorce Court and Remington Steele) along with film noir classics from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the daily exercise routine shows such as Charlene Prickett's It Figures, Cynthia Kereluk's Everyday Workout and Denise Austin's Getting Fit also included. The channel was broadcast from facilities at Molinare, another company owned at the time by WHSmith Group.

In 1990, the transponder was used to broadcast the Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox, a music video request channel from 10.00pm to 6.00am. The hours between the ending of Lifestyle's programmes and the start of Satellite Jukebox were filled by Sell-a-Vision home shopping service. For a time, The Children's Channel also transmitted on transponder 5, airing during the early morning before Lifestyle programming started.

In the early 1990s, Lifestyle's transmission time was extended and it aired 10.00am to 6.00pm. The channel became more associated with the Sky Television brand by becoming part of its advertising campaigns for the Astra satellite on which all Sky channels and Lifestyle could be seen. The channel broadcast the successful chat show Sally Jessy Raphael along with several popular American gameshows including Classic Concentration, The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough and Supermarket Sweep. More recent programming was also acquired, and Australian series including Rafferty's Rules, Cop Shop and Skyways aired along with American soap operas Search for Tomorrow and The Edge of Night.

The channel never achieved huge ratings and closed on 24 January 1993, its most popular shows were moved to Sky One and Astra's transponder 5 was taken over the following day by a German language service VOX.[1] A new women's network launched a few months later on 1 September of that year called UK Living as part of the Sky Multichannels package.

Programming[]

A – G[]

H – N[]

O – U[]

V – Z[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Remembering Lifestyle – including Final Closedown". thesearethedays on YouTube. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  2. ^ Lifestyle ident 1988, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 15 November 2021
  3. ^ "Unofficial Rediffusion Cablevision website (archived)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. ^ "ICDG". Retrieved 14 July 2019.

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