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| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 4:3, 576i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | CSC Media Group |
| History | |
| Launched | 13 September 2007 |
| Closed | 27 August 2008 |
| Replaced by | Showcase TV |
| Links | |
| Website | animecentral.com |
Anime Central was a British television channel owned by CSC Media Group. The channel launched on 13 September 2007. It was first announced on 5 August 2007, though its license first appeared on the Ofcom website in January (initially named "Toon TV", this was changed to Anime Central in June). The channel ran from 9pm to 6am, free-to-air on Sky's Digital TV Platform, channel 199; and it was the only channel broadcast in the UK and Ireland which was dedicated solely to showing anime.
Anime was only broadcast between 9pm and 6am. The channel originally timeshared with Pop Girl (another CSC Media Group channel) but more bandwidth was made available removing the need for the channel to timeshare. The extra broadcast capacity was then filled with the channel ident or teleshopping. The channel was shut down on 27 August 2008 being replaced with Showcase TV but Anime Central continued to be shown as a programming block on Showcase TV every night between 4am and 6am. Showcase TV was renumbered to channel 188 in September 2008. On 3 August 2009 Showcase TV became True Entertainment and the Anime Central programming block was removed completely.[1]
- ^ "True Entertainment". Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.