1 November 1992
UK Gold, backed by BBC Enterprises, Thames Television and Cox Enterprises, launches and the channel broadcasts classic programming from the archives of the BBC and Thames
UK Living launches the following year
1 November 1997
Flextech deal with BBC WW creates the UKTV Joint Venture business; UK Living folds into Flextech TV
Three new channels join UK Gold: UK Arena, UK Style and UK Horizons
April 1998
Dick Emery becomes CEO
October 1998
UK Gold Classics arrives and broadcasts archive comedy programmes
October 1998
Music and comedy channel UK Play launches
April 1999
UK Gold Classics rebrands to UK Gold 2 and becomes a time-shift channel for UK Gold, broadcasting daytime programmes from UK Gold in the evening
March 2000
UK Arena evolves into UK Drama
November 2000
UK Play becomes Play UK and has a new look
November 2001
Food content is taken from UK Style to launch UK Food
September 2002
Play UK closes
October 2002
Freeview launches with new channel, UK History, available on the platform
January 2003
UK Bright Ideas appears on Freeview, broadcasting a mixture of programming from UK Style and UK Food
November 2003
UK Gold 2 rebrands as UKG2 with a new schedule and style
March 2004
All channels have their prefixes changed from UK to UKTV. UK Horizons is split into two channels: UKTV Documentary and UKTV People
November 2004
A one-hour timeshifted service of UKTVG2 begins to operating under the name UKTV G2 +1
2005
Launch of UKTV Style Gardens, allowing UKTV Style to focus on its home-related programming
November 2006
John Keeling becomes interim CEO
2007
UKTV Style Gardens becomes UKTV Gardens
April 2007
David Abraham becomes CEO
October 2007
UKTVG2 (previously UKG2) becomes Dave and launches on Freeview
UKTVG2 +1 becomes Dave +1
UKTV Bright Ideas closes
June 2008
UKTV announces the rebrand of its channels, removing UKTV from their name
October 2008
UKTV Gold becomes G.O.L.D., focusing on comedy, UKTV Drama becomes crime drama channel Alibi, and a new general entertainment channel called Watch launches
January 2009
UKTV Documentary closes and launches as natural history channel Eden
February 2009
UKTV People becomes Blighty, with programming related to Britain and society
Dave +1 is renamed Dave ja vu
March 2009
UKTV History rebrands to Yesterday
April 2009
UKTV Style rebrands to Home
May 2009
UKTV Gardens closes with some programming migrating to Home and the channel slot is taken by new channel Really
June 2009
UKTV Food becomes Good Food
August 2009
Good Food HD launches
September 2010
Darren Childs becomes CEO
October 2010
Eden HD launches
January 2011
Channel 4 Sales becomes the exclusive advertising representative for the UKTV portfolio
July 2011
UKTV signs landmark content deal with BSkyB (Sky) to launch its first video on demand (VoD) service on Sky Anytime+ making hundreds of hours of programming from across the network available to Sky Anytime+ viewers every year
August 2011
Virgin Media (previously known as Flextech) sells its 50% stake in UKTV to Scripps Network Interactive
Really launches on Freeview
October 2011
Dave and Watch HD both launch
March 2012
UKTV creates its first IPTV content deal with BT Vision - the three-year agreement covers both channel-branded VOD content and the network's portfolio of linear, paid-for television channels, beginning with Watch, Gold and Alibi in late 2012
May 2012
Sky Media Ireland wins the contract to handle advertising sales for UKTV's channels in Ireland
July 2012
TalkTalk carries all of UKTV's branded channels and selected VOD programmes on TalkTalk's YouView platform
Alibi launches in HD
Dedicated Irish ad feed launches for Dave and Gold
October 2012
UKTV launches its own branded On Demand player - Dave On Demand
November 2012
Yesterday On Demand launches
December 2012
Really On Demand launches
January 2013
Dave App launches on iOS devices
July 2013
Blighty closes
UKTV launches brand new channel, Drama, on Sky, Freeview, YouView, BT and Talk Talk
Dave launches seven-day catch up service on YouView
August 2013
Drama launches on Virgin TV
October 2013
Catch-up services for Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi launch on Sky Go
All UKTV channels launch on eircom's eVision TV service
Gold launches on NOW TV
November 2013
All UKTV channels launch on Virgin TV Anywhere
January 2014
Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi Catch Up services launch on Sky on Demand [Archive services were already available for all four channels]
Yesterday and Really launch seven-day catch up services on YouView
June 2014
UKTV announces launch of first non-linear Brand, UKTV Play
July 2014
UKTV moves to new Hammersmith headquarters, built for innovation
August 2014
UKTV Play iOS app launches
November 2014
UKTV Box Sets and catch up TV launch on Virgin TV, under UKTV Play
UKTV Play launches on PC and YouView
February 2015
UKTV Play Android app launches
March 2015
Drama launches on UKTV Play
June 2015
UKTV opens high-spec in-house production facility
August 2015
BT extends deal with UKTV to include all 10 channels on its BT TV set top boxes, with launch of Good Food, Eden and Home. New deal also includes catch up for UKTV's Pay channels, via a UKTV Play-branded service
October 2015
UKTV Play launches on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
December 2015
Really, Yesterday and Drama launch on Freesat
January 2016
UKTV broadcasts first ever live sports programming with Live Boxing: David Haye v Mark De Mori on free-to-air channel Dave, 16 January
February 2016
Pay channel Watch evolves into premium entertainment channel W, launching on 15 February
June 2016
UKTV strikes landmark deal with Virgin Media to provide over 10k hours of entertainment to its TV customers
W launches on Virgin Media Ireland
July 2016
UKTV extends broadcast services contract with Ericsson
August 2016
UKTV Play launches on Freeview Play on 24 August
January 2017
Record-breaking year-end ratings and market share
UKTV and Channel 4 agree long term extension of exclusive ad sales partnership
February 2017
UKTV Play reveals new iOS and Android app
May 2017
To complement its new strapline, 'Life on TV,' Really gets a brand refresh - the first for in-house UKTV Creative
August 2017
Dave and Home join Really, Yesterday and Drama on Freesat
UKTV Play launches on Virgin Media Ireland
September 2017
UKTV announces biggest ever slate of UKTV Original productions
October 2017
Gold launches in HD
November 2017
Gold celebrates its 25th birthday
February 2018
UKTV Play launches on NOW TV and Roku streaming players
March 2018
Discovery, Inc. acquires Scripps Networks Interactive and becomes new joint shareholder of UKTV with BBC Worldwide
UKTV commissions its first ever original drama series W - Flack
September 2018
UKTV Play launches on Freesat and Samsung TVs
Drama and Really join Virgin Media Ireland
November 2018
UKTV opens a technology innovation hub in the heart of Leeds
April 2019
Live streaming launches on UKTV Play
June 2019
UKTV Play arrives on Apple TV
BBC Studios takes full ownership of UKTV and Marcus Arthur joins as CEO