History
The channel was launched on 15 January 2003 as UK Bright Ideas, initially for the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, but later expanded to other platforms. Along with the rest of the UKTV network, the "UK" prefix was changed to "UKTV" on 8 March 2004 and it became UKTV Bright Ideas. It timeshared with Ftn, which has since been closed down and replaced with Virgin1 on 1 October 2007.
The channel was available on digital terrestrial television (Freeview), Sky Digital and Virgin Media.
In September 2007 UKTV announced that UKTV Bright Ideas, which only averaged 0.1% of the audience share, would be replaced on Freeview by Dave, as of 15 October.
UKTV Bright Ideas ceased broadcasting on all platforms on 14 October 2007 at 6pm.
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