Showcase TV

This article is about a British TV channel from Information TV. For the Canadian TV channel, see Showcase (Canadian TV channel). For the Sky channel, see Sky Showcase. For other uses, see Showcase.
Showcase TV
CountryUnited Kingdom
Programming
Picture format4:3, 576i (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerInformation TV
History
Launched27 August 2008; 16 years ago (2008-08-27)
ReplacedAnimeCentral
Closed3 August 2009; 15 years ago (2009-08-03)
Replaced byTrue Entertainment

Showcase TV was a television channel in the United Kingdom currently run by Information TV[1] and is used to offer smaller specialist channels a place to showcase their programmes, sometimes leading to a full channel launch. It is also used as a placeholder channel and has been used to hold on to lucrative EPG slots from defunct channels which are then sold on at a later date. It has ceased and restarted many times over the years.[2]

Not to be confused with a similarly named channel which ceased on 20 August 2007 Life Showcase TV or Showcase TV run by Classic Media Group in March 2017 which was just a programme slot on Sky channel 181, until moving in 2020 to channel 191.[3]

  1. ^ "Showcase TV Website". information TV. Archived from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  2. ^ "Official Showcase TV facebook page". Official Showcase TV facebook page. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  3. ^ "Showcase TV (Classic media Group)". Showcase TV (Classic media Group). Archived from the original on 2007-02-16.