International television channel
Television channel
BBC Lifestyle
is an international television channel wholly owned by
BBC Studios
. The channel provides six programming strands: Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, and Personal Development.
On 1 August 2019, BBC Lifestyle along with
BBC Earth
rebranded.
History
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BBC Lifestyle first launched in
Singapore
on
mio TV
in July 2007 (it is now on
Singtel TV
). It is also available in
Hong Kong
on
now TV
, in Poland on the
Cyfrowy Polsat
digital satellite platform, where it launched in December 2007, and in Romania on
Digi TV
digital cable television, where it launched on 31 December 2010. It has been available on
DStv
in
South Africa
and on
OSN
in the
Middle East
and
North Africa
since September 2008 and replaced on available of SHAHID VIP on Demand. Since then, it has also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008, where it replaced BBC Prime on
Canal Digital
,
Com Hem
,
Telia Digital-TV
and
FastTV
.
In June 2009, hollywoodreporter.com cited the lack of viewership on SingTel's mio TV as the reason that the
British Broadcasting Corporation
terminated the right to air BBC Lifestyle,
CBeebies
and
BBC Knowledge
under permission registered BBC from 19 March 2009 to 15 December 2009.
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The BBC has since sourced StarHub TV as an alternative offering. Thus BBC Lifestyle is now on channel 432 on StarHub TV. However, as of 1 December 2021, BBC Lifestyle together with
CBeebies
made its return to Singtel TV along with the launch of BBC World News, BBC Earth and BBC First onto the platform.
BBC Lifestyle ceased broadcast in the Nordic region on 6 January 2016.
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On September 14, 2021, BBC Lifestyle HD launched on Malaysian satellite TV service Astro.
[3]
BBC Lifestyle launched in the Philippines via Cignal on October 1, 2023, replacing
National Geographic
.
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Prior to that date, it can only be found in select provincial cable operators.
BBC Lifestyle was among the other pay TV channels to launch in
Taiwanese cable TV providers
on January 1, 2024, following the announcement of
Star World
and
other Disney-owned linear channels
to cease their operations in Taiwan.
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Programming
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See also
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References
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External links
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