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UKTV Food, UKTV Bright Ideas, UKTV Style Gardens, UKTV Documentary, UKTV People and UKTV History.
Animal Planet and People+Arts
Created in March 1998 to develop television channels and factual programming for the international market place, the global alliance between BBC and DCI includes programme co-productions and a family of award-winning factual entertainment television channels comprising Animal Planet and People+Arts. Separately DCI also handles the marketing and distribution of BBC America (see below).
In 2004/05, Animal Planet broke even in Europe for the first time and launched in Germany and Italy. It is available in 227m homes and 160 countries worldwide. People+Arts is available in more than 14m homes across Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
BBC Canada and BBC Kids
BBC Worldwide operates two digital channels in Canada
with joint-venture partner Alliance Atlantis. The general
entertainment channel, BBC Canada, continues to perform
extremely strongly and ranks number one with its key target
audience: women aged 25-54. BBC Kids is equally successful
and now ranks number two among children aged 2-11.
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UK•TV
BBC Worldwide’s joint venture with Foxtel and FremantleMedia had another strong year. In Australia UK•TV’s year-on-year reach grew by 11% and its average audience by 15%. UK•TV New Zealand consolidated its position as one of SkyDigital’s most-watched channels.
Wholly owned channels
BBC America
Launched in 1997, BBC America rapidly established a strong
reputation for innovative programming and marketing in
the world’s most competitive media market. The impact of
strong series such as The Office and Little Britain drove the
take-up of channel subscriptions, which now total more than
40m homes. The target is 45m homes – about half the cable
homes in the US – by the end of 2005.
In January 2005 a new management team was put in place,
supported by a significant increase in programme and
marketing budgets and a new strategy to increase ratings
and awareness. BBC America made a profit in 2004/05
for the second year running – a real achievement for such
a recent arrival on the US media scene. BBC America
continued to win critical acclaim with two prestigious
Peabody Awards for the thriller State of Play and the comedy
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