SmileTV

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SmileTV

Launched	27 April 2006
Owned by	Square1 Managment Ltd
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 37

SmileTV is a British television channel which launched on Digital Terrestrial Television (Freeview) channel 37 on April 29, 2006. It is carried on multiplex C, and timeshares with UKTV History. The channel is owned by Square1 Managment Ltd. Smile TV broadcasts between 1am and 5am.

The vast majority of the channel's output is a premium rate telephone chat-line service by the name of Party People, which broadcasts from 1am to 3am. The final 2 hours of broadcasting is taken by Sumo TV, the best ugc programme on freeview.

From launch to, until Quizworld's closure on July 1, 2006, Quizworld was shown in the 1am to 4am timeslot. Quizworld was a premium rate telephone quiz service. An audio version of Quizworld was also broadcast on Top Up TV Active intermittently outside of SmileTV's broadcast hours. The audio on was accompanied by an on-screen MHEG graphic of the quiz. A MHEG graphic is used as during the daytime and evening Top Up TV have no space on the digital terrestrial platform for an additional videostream. Using MHEG means a picture can be broadcast using minimal bandwidth.

The channel also has a secondary logo seen on their off-air MHEG, and is worded as SmileTV ;-).