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Diva TV is 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....
 TV channel owned by NBC Universal
NBC Universal Global Networks

NBC Universal Global Networks is a part of NBC Universal. In 2007 NBC Universal acquired Sparrowhawk Media Group, which at the time was a United Kingdom private equity-backed media company managing a collection of digital television television network, and integrated it into NBC Universal Global Networks....
, which launched on Sky Digital
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
 channel 282 at midday on the 1 October 2007

The channel airs shows such as the The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, and Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray (TV series)

Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006....
.

CBS Daytime
CBS Daytime

CBS Daytime is a television programming block on CBS Corporation....
 soap The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
 returns to British Television screens on Diva TV for the first time since 2003.

Earlier Use of the Name "Diva TV"
An earlier use of the name Diva TV was by an lesbian video activist collective founded in New York City in 1989.






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Diva TV is 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....
 TV channel owned by NBC Universal
NBC Universal Global Networks

NBC Universal Global Networks is a part of NBC Universal. In 2007 NBC Universal acquired Sparrowhawk Media Group, which at the time was a United Kingdom private equity-backed media company managing a collection of digital television television network, and integrated it into NBC Universal Global Networks....
, which launched on Sky Digital
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
 channel 282 at midday on the 1 October 2007

The channel airs shows such as the The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, and Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray (TV series)

Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006....
.

CBS Daytime
CBS Daytime

CBS Daytime is a television programming block on CBS Corporation....
 soap The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
 returns to British Television screens on Diva TV for the first time since 2003.

Earlier Use of the Name "Diva TV"


An earlier use of the name Diva TV was by an lesbian video activist collective founded in New York City in 1989. The name was an acronym for “Damned Interfering Video Activist Television”. It was an affinity Group of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

ACT UP, or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis."...
) and its legacy is to have preserved many of ACT UP's demonstrations, civil disobedience
Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power , without resorting to physical violence....
 actions and public reaction to the group from the streets of New York as the AIDS crisis unfolded there. Members of Diva TV identified themselves as partisan activists who created media in the same way participants in the Indymedia movement would fifteen years later -- or in the same way Third World Newsreel
Third World Newsreel

Third World Newsreel is an United States media center and film distribution company based in New York City and established in 1967 as Newsreel....
 did in the 1960s using earlier 8-mm film technology. Selected clips from Diva TV's ACT-UP films can be viewed on . A videotape archive of their work can be viewed at the in Brooklyn, NY, and is available at the New York Public Library, .

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