| SmileTV | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 27 April 2006 |
| Owned by | Cellcast Group |
| Freeview | SmileTV2 - Channel 94 (available between 0000 and 0500) |
| Freeview | SmileTV3 - Channel 95 (available between 2200 and 0800) |
SmileTV is a British television channel which launched on digital terrestrial television (Freeview) channel 37 on 29 April 2006. It is carried on multiplex C, and timeshares with Dave. The channel is owned by SQ1 Management. SmileTV has been broadcasting between 3 am and 7 am since 28 September 2007. Since launch, the channel had been on air between 1 am and 5 am.
The vast majority of the channel's output is a premium rate telephone chat-line service by the name of Party Girls, which broadcasts from 3 am to 7 am. This programme replaces Party People, which was broadcast between 1 am and 4 am, and SumoTV, taking up the final hour of the old broadcasting times.
From the launch of SmileTV until 1 July 2006, Quizworld was shown in the 1 am to 4 am 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.
SmileTV2 is a sister channel to the main SmileTV, and first appeared on Freeview channel 46 on 8 September 2008 - broadcasting Party Girls and Life Coach TV. After a few months, Life Coach TV was replaced with Psychic TV. The channel also aired daytime chat show, The Chat and Smile & Date. In February 2009, SmileTV2 dropped all mentioned programming in favour of Bingo on the Box: Live. On 15 March 2009, SmileTV2 ceased broadcasting. However, the channel relaunched in May, timesharing with Ideal World - broadcasting Babestation daily between 12 midnight and 5 am.