Horse & Country TV

Horse & Country TV
Launched	7 July 2007.
Owned by	H&C TV Ltd.
Picture format	16:9, 576i (SDTV)
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	United Kingdom The Netherlands The Republic of Ireland Sweden Malta
Website	Website
Availability
Satellite
Sky	Channel 253
Cable
Ziggo Netherlands	Kanaal 136
Caiway Netherlands	Kanaal 136
Glashart Media Netherlands	Kanaal 292
DELTA Netherlands	Kanaal 121
Kabelnoord Netherlands	Kanaal 259
Kabeltex Netherlands	Kanaal 204
Stichting CAI Harderwijk Netherlands	Kanaal 143
Magine.com Sweden	.
Com Hem – Kanal Sweden	.
Streaming media
Horizon	Horizon.tv (Netherlands only)

Horse & Country TV is a British TV channel about equestrianism and British country lifestyle. H&C TV is broadcast in the UK and Ireland on satellite television on Sky digital channel 253. H&C is also simulcast in Malta via Melita and launched to cable TV viewers in the Netherlands in June 2012. In June 2013 H&C launched in Sweden, on the OTT service Magine. In February 2015, H&C will launch in Australia on Fetch TV.^[1]

In 2012, H&C commissioned the series "Getting to Greenwich", an 8-part series profiling rider contenders for London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. H&C also commissioned "Dean Dibsdall: Model Farrier", a single film about the winner of E4's "Playing It Straight" 2012. H&C produced in-house "Carl and Charlotte: Dressage Superstars" a 2-part series about top British Dressage riders, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin.

Horse & Country programming is available in the US on HRTV, in France on Equidia, in Italy on Class Horse TV, in New Zealand on Country TV and in Dubai on Dubai Racing Channel.

Awards and nominations

H&C TV has been nominated for four years running for Best Specialist Channel in the Broadcast Digital Awards from 2010 to 2012. H&C won the award in 2011 against other nominees: the Food Network UK and the Horror Channel. H&C's website was also shortlisted in 2012 for the Best Website category with other nominees being Channel 4, E4 and CBeebies' sites. In 2013, H&C TV was shortlisted for Best Factual Channel with the other nominees being BBC Four, Discovery Channel and History.

Citations

Broadcast: Covering the Olympics with no coverage^[2]