Dave Ja Vu returns to 24 hour broadcast on Freeview

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Thursday 20 November 2014

UKTV, the award-winning broadcaster that reaches over 42 million viewers a month, has announced that Dave Ja Vu will now broadcast 24 hours a day on Freeview Channel 25.

Dave Ja Vu, a time-shift service for leading entertainment channel Dave, has only been broadcasting three hours of content a day on Freeview since summer of 2013. Now fans of Dave have an opportunity to catch up on smash hit shows such as Storage Hunters UK, Red Bull Cliff Diving and Lizard Lick Towing one hour after they have aired on the channel.

Dave has enjoyed huge success this year and has cemented its position as the number one non-PSB channel in the country. UKTV recently announced an increase in its programming budget to £125m and a raft of exciting new content is slated to air on Dave in 2015, including Hoff the Record, Undercover and returning series' of Ross Noble Freewheeling and Alan Davies As Yet Untitled.

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Kerry Parker, Head of Network Communications

About Dave HD

Sky 111/232, Virgin 128, HD: 129, Freeview 12

Dave proudly presents a plethora of original commissions; Crackanory, Ross Noble Freewheeling, Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish, and Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums, all laden with the biggest names in British comedy. Not to mention a brand spanking new series with QI favourite Alan Davies in Alan Davies As Yet Untitled.

If that wasn't enough to whet your appetite we also have a stack of national treasures like QI, Red Dwarf X, Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You, plus the Red Bull trilogy of Cliff Diving, X-Fighters and the Soap Box races. And of course, we still have Top Gear.

Obviously we have to add, Dave is the UK's most watched non-PSB channel broadcasting to over 27 million people per month, featuring hit US shows including the sharp-witted and sharp-suited Suits, the ludicrously addictive Lizard Lick Towing and the wonder that is Storage Hunters, the gift that keeps on giving.

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About UKTV

UKTV is the multi-award winning media company that reaches over 42 million viewers every month.

UKTV's eleven imaginative brands - UKTV Play, Dave, Watch, Gold, Alibi, Yesterday, Drama, Really, Home, Eden and Good Food - include the most popular non-PSB channel in the UK and account for 9% of the British commercial TV market. The company's most recent financial results showed record-breaking year-end revenue of £278m, and EBITDA of £67.4m. It invested a record £125m in programming and related launches last year, and is becoming an increasingly significant investor in UK creativity.

UKTV has a truly innovative model, curating brand-defining commissions, high-profile acquisitions and the very best of BBC, alongside programmes originally shown on ITV and Channel 4. The network embraces technology to deliver inspired channels to audiences through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk, YouView and UKTV Play, and distributes its highly valued original programmes to 200 territories.

Now celebrating its 21st year at the forefront of digital television, UKTV - an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) - is proud to be the only British television broadcaster to be recognised by Best Companies.

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