| Brit Hits | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 8 December 2008 |
| Closed | 13 April 2009 |
| Owned by | TV Legal Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Formerly called | Legal TV, RED TV |
| Website | brithits.tv |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 215, 385 |
Brit Hits was a television channel broadcast via the Sky Digital satellite platform to the United Kingdom on channel 215, previously on channel 385.
The channel, which launched on 8 December 2008, was formerly known as Legal TV and Red TV. Brit Hits targeted an audience between 16–45 years old, focusing most of its broadcast on new up-and-coming British acts, as well as old British artists.
As of February 2009 Brit Hits was simulcasting Psychic TV, and also contained other non-related music programmes. It no longer showed music.
Brit Hits closed on 13 April 2009 and was replaced by The Sikh Channel.[1][2]
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Shows that were broadcast by Brit Hits:
| Legal TV | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 27 February 2006 |
| Owned by | TV Legal Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | legaltv.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 186 |
| Eurobird 1 | 11224V 27500 2/3 |
| Internet television | |
| legaltv.co.uk | Online Streaming |
Legal TV was a television channel broadcast via the Sky Digital satellite platform to the United Kingdom.
The channel, which launched on 20 February 2006, adopted the motto "the law firm in your living room" and aimed its programmes at a lay audience. Legal advice given by the channel was of a general nature, compared by a senior director to "...advice that might be sourced from the CAB".[3]
Legal TV rebranded to Red TV on Monday 17 December 2007.
| RED TV | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 17 December 2007 |
| Owned by | TV Legal Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Formerly called | Legal TV |
| Website | red-tv.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 180 |
| Eurobird 1 | 12.480V 27500 2/3 |
| Internet television | |
| red-tv.co.uk | Online Streaming |
Red TV broadcast via the Sky Digital satellite platform to the United Kingdom. The channel, which launched on 17 December 2007, sought to expand on Legal TV's line-up of home-grown and USA-imported legal programming by introducing reality TV and lifestyle documentary shows. The channel's slogan was 'Close to Life'.
Red TV relaunched as Brit Hits TV in December 2008. The channel moved EPG genres from Entertainment to Music.
Amongst shows broadcast by Red: