Challenge TV launched on Freeview!

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Brekkie 19 May 2011 12:09pm

I think there could be a rebrand on the way. Especially now since it has a sky logo on the site.

I don't. They probably just have the name to protect it and as they have it they thought it makes sense to redirect It to the Challenge website.

The rebrand of Sky 3 was an obvious attempt to the dissociate the Sky brand with Freeview, while maintaining outlets to promote Sky's stuff. So I'd hardly see why they'd rebrand something recently launched on Freeview with the Sky name if this is their thinking.

I may of course be wrong.

Unless the plan is to then remove it from Freeview entirely; replaced by PickTV+2?

Or Sky News +1!

They already have a channel repeating what Sky News aired an hour earlier. It's called Sky News!

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bevan2011 19 May 2011 7:30pm

What I am enjoying the most is the re run sof the crystal maze
they're on series 2 at the moment my favourite richard's interaction with the team, the viewers, musey in medieval and the female like computer in the future zone which he always spoke to in s 2 was splendid

viewing figures aren'ttoo bad as well

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Ben Founding member 19 May 2011 8:42pm

Yep, but when they repeat it for the third time this year you'll start to get bored of it.

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JasonB 23 May 2011 7:52am

According to the announcer before bullseye last night there's "new" bullseye on wednesday and she called Dave Spikey Jim Bowen!

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nwtv2003 24 May 2011 10:53am

According to the official Bullseye page on Facebook, as of tomorrow Challenge will be airing Series 7 & 8 of Bullseye on weekdays between 5 and 6pm.

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JasonB 24 May 2011 3:28pm

Is that the 1988 and 1989 series?

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Juicy Joe Founding member 25 May 2011 7:29pm

It must be, as the old Central globe logo appeared at the end.

The announcer started talking over the end of the Maze tonight as they were giving out the crystals, which was a bit unprofessional. Why is this?

Also, Challenge seem to be doing a lot more promotions for the channel now rather than advertising other Sky channels, with proper coming up boards and later boards etc which is good. Ninja Warrior is also receiving lots of advertising!

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Ben Founding member 25 May 2011 10:38pm

Juicy Joe posted:

The announcer started talking over the end of the Maze tonight as they were giving out the crystals, which was a bit unprofessional. Why is this?

Pre-recorded announcement kicked in a bit early.

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Colm 25 May 2011 11:08pm

Ben posted:

Juicy Joe posted:

The announcer started talking over the end of the Maze tonight as they were giving out the crystals, which was a bit unprofessional. Why is this?

Pre-recorded announcement kicked in a bit early.

That's been happening often on Challenge lately; one of last night's Catchphrase episodes had the announcement crashing into Roy Walker's outro.

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WillPS 27 May 2011 4:33pm

If I'm imagining an automated playout system correctly, surely the broadcaster must add 'flags' in at certain frames, to kick in adverts, announcements etc?

Well whenever Sky did this to Challenge content they must have had their eyes closed.

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David 27 May 2011 6:39pm

Can you guess what this mans unusual hobby is?
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Brekkie 27 May 2011 6:40pm

Ben posted:

Yep, but when they repeat it for the third time this year you'll start to get bored of it.

That has been an issue with so many channels new to Freeview over the last decade. Great to see such shows when they launch, but they more often than not just return to the beginning once all episodes are shown rather than alternating with other shows.

(February 2011)