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Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Programming | |
Picture format | 576i SDTV |
Timeshift service | HGTV +1 UKTV Style +2 (defunct) |
Ownership | |
Owner | UKTV (1997-2019) Discovery Inc. (2019-2022) Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA (2022-present) |
Sister channels | Animal Planet Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito CNN International Discovery Channel Discovery History Discovery Science Discovery Turbo DMAX Food Network Investigation Discovery Quest Quest Red Really TLC |
History | |
Launched | 1 November 1997 |
Former names | UK Style (1997-2004) UKTV Style (2004-2009) Home (2009-2020) |
Links | |
Website | HGTV |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
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Streaming media | |
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HGTV (formerly Home) is a British free-to-air interior home and garden-orientated lifestyle television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, currently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel originally launched on 1 November 1997 as UK Style and then was rebranded to Home on 30 April 2009 and was rebranded to its current form on 21 January 2020. HGTV is broadcast 24 hours a day on Sky. UK Style was transmitted by terrestrial provider ITV Digital 24 hours a day until the company's collapse in 2002. After a slight rebrand to UKTV Style, the channel made a return to terrestrial screens for a time in the mid-2000s as part of the now-defunct Top Up TV system. Before 2016, HGTV was a pay channel. Home became available as a free-to-air linear service on Freeview from 1 March 2016.[1]