Challenge TV - September 2011 onwards

Apart from challenge, most other channels tend to repeat the content from 9pm - 1am from 2am onwards,

Works for me. Still find it something of a travesty that there's barely any music channels on air at ridiculous o'clock anymore.

I can understand having automatic playout overnight, but during the day when channels like Challenge might have a decent amount of viewers, it's lazy. It's nice to think there's somebody somewhere pushing the buttons, in the same way there's a sense of comfort listening to a DJ on a radio rather than leaving your iPod on shuffle.

The Website is Fantastic, If you look on each show and click on Photo gallery there good number of pic, included a Family Catchphrase pic

...and two photographs of the TVS era Catchphrase set.

And on the video gallery page, an embedded YouTube video of the snake charmer incident!

If you're watching on Freeview, a reminder that the channel moved multiplexes at 2pm. Retune if you've lost Challenge and want it back.

Thanks for the reminder! Will check later when nobody else is watching the telly.

Any news on what is taking over Challenge's capacity on its former multiplex?

Just a quick heads up to say that Takeshi's Castle Monster Special is on Challenge right now (started at 6pm) and is great with AD switched on. The woman has a different style to most other AD I have heard. She just said 'Whoops' when someone fell over and 'boing' when someone ran in to a door. The elephant is fantastic too.

In other news, the Pointless missing episodes mystery has finally been solved...
http://www.facebook.com/ChallengeTV/posts/221370897918557

The Adultnature mystery remains as such.

Sadly, the Jewellery Channel (ch.60)


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Must say, I like the new look Challenge, and have even noticed that Pick TV seem to be promoting Challenge more at the moment.

There will be someone in a transmission suite looking after the channel.... although they might be looking after Challenge and a few others. It might well be that at night the channel is getting more attention as the other ones from the same suite close down

You are confusing 'automatic playout' with unattended playout. Every TV channel has automation playing out their programmes, and that's been the case for about 20 years; but only a few of the very cheapest, little watched channel will have no human intervention at all.


If everything had to be manual and there were 3 or 4 people per channel then they wouldn't be able to afford to broadcast after 2.... but then they wouldn't be able to afford to broadcast the rest of the day either!