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 for Tuvalu
Tuvalu

Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia....
, see .tv
.tv

.tv is the Internet country code top-level domain for the island nation of Tuvalu.Except for reserved names like .com.tv, .net.tv, .org.tv and others, any person in the world can register a .tv domain for a fee....


.tv (Pronounced as 'Dot TV', referred to onscreen as .tv - the technology channel) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 channel dedicated to technology. .tv was owned and operated by British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting

British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
. The channel began broadcasting on 1 September 1996 as The Computer Channel and broadcasted between 6pm and 8pm. The broadcasting hours were increased to 12pm to 12am when The Computer Channel (by now .tv) started broadcasting on British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite platform, Sky Digital in 1998.

Towards the end of its run, .tv implimented several new shows heavily sponsored by online technology store dabs.com
Dabs.com

dabs.com is an Electronic commerce retailer in the United Kingdom. It is one of the UK's largest internet retailers of information technology and technology products....
, promoting products which were available at that site.






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For the country code top-level domain
Country code top-level domain

TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ...
 for Tuvalu
Tuvalu

Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia....
, see .tv
.tv

.tv is the Internet country code top-level domain for the island nation of Tuvalu.Except for reserved names like .com.tv, .net.tv, .org.tv and others, any person in the world can register a .tv domain for a fee....


.tv (Pronounced as 'Dot TV', referred to onscreen as .tv - the technology channel) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 channel dedicated to technology. .tv was owned and operated by British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting

British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
. The channel began broadcasting on 1 September 1996 as The Computer Channel and broadcasted between 6pm and 8pm. The broadcasting hours were increased to 12pm to 12am when The Computer Channel (by now .tv) started broadcasting on British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite platform, Sky Digital in 1998.

Towards the end of its run, .tv implimented several new shows heavily sponsored by online technology store dabs.com
Dabs.com

dabs.com is an Electronic commerce retailer in the United Kingdom. It is one of the UK's largest internet retailers of information technology and technology products....
, promoting products which were available at that site. .tv was closed on the 2 September 2001 because of low audience ratings.

Programming

  • Buyers Guide - 20 minute weekday show that reviewed gadgets (such as PDAs
    Personal digital assistant

    A personal digital assistant is a handheld computer, also known as a palmtop computer. Newer PDAs also have both color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones, , web browsers, or portable media players....
     and printers
    Computer printer

    File:Lexmark X5100 Series.jpgIn computing, a printer is a peripheral which produces a hard copy of documents stored in computer file form, usually on physical print media such as paper or Transparency ....
    ), computers and software (such as computer games
    Computer Games

    "Computer Games" is a single by New Zealand group, Mi-Sex released in 1981 . It was the single that launched the band, and was hugely popular, particularly in Australia and New Zealand....
    , operating systems and photo manipulation
    Photo manipulation

    Photo manipulation is the application of techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception , through analog or digital means....
    ). Presented by Will Hanrahan
    Will Hanrahan

    William Hanrahan is a UK television personality best known for working on BBC programs such as Watchdog and Good Morning. He has headed, since 1994, his own independent TV company and is also a law graduate with considerable experience in consumer and legal programming....
    .


  • Chips with Everything - 20 minute weekday show presented by Kate Russell
    Kate Russell

    Kate Russell is a technology reporter who first appeared on an old BSkyB channel called The Computer Channel, which was later renamed to .tv . She used to present shows called Chips With Everything and Which On-air....
     with guests trying to answer computer related questions that were sent in by viewers.


  • Ex Machina - 30 minute weekly show that went behind the scenes of digitally produced entertainment (computer games, films and television programmes).


  • Games World - (later renamed Game Over) - variable-format videogame magazine show.


  • Games republic
    Games Republic

    Games Republic was a 30 minute TV game show which was broadcast on BSkyB .tv channel from 1999 to 2000. It had an Ancient Egypt theme and was hosted by Trevor and Simon....
     - A question based video game quiz show, presented by Trevor and Simon
    Trevor and Simon

    Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson are a United Kingdom comedy duo, best known for their contributions to the BBC1 children's television series Going Live! and Live & Kicking during the late 1980s and throughout much of the 1990s....
    .


  • "404 Not Found" - An off beat news and reviews show with regular viewer letters and emails.


  • Global Village - 30 minute weekly show that looked at how technology was revolutionising our homes from an international perspective.


  • Masterclass - 20 minute weekday show that gave tutorials on how to use features from programs like Microsoft Word
    Microsoft Word

    Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word processor computer software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems....
    , Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
     and Nero Burning ROM
    Nero Burning ROM

    Nero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero burning rom....
    . For the majority of the run, the show was presented by Richard Topping
    Richard Topping

    Richard Topping started his career on-stage as a Stand-up comedy on the London club circuit in the late 1980s. He moved into television in the 1990s, co-hosting several shows including BBC's This Multimedia Business, The Technophobe's Guide To The Future and ITV's The Web Review....
    , affectionately known as "Toppers." He left the show to pursue a successful career in writing. His replacement was comedian Marc Haynes
    Marc Haynes

    Marc Haynes is an England comedy writer and co-host of the XFM breakfast show, broadcast Monday to Friday, 6am-9am on XFM London....
    , who fronted the show until the channel closed.


Buyers Guide, Masterclass and Chips with Everything were repeated as omnibus editions (the weekday editions broadcasted as one programme) on weekends.

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