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''Community Channel'' is a UK free-to-air television channel wholly owned by Media Trust and supported by major broadcasters including the BBC. The channel is available to all TV households in the UK. Community Channel broadcasts inspiring community stories, uplifting series and documentaries that encourage people to Do Something Brilliant that makes a difference to where they live. Each year the channel broadcasts over five hundred new programmes and hundreds of community stories. A million individuals a month watch the channel across its platforms. The channel broadcasts on Freeview HD 63, Sky 539 and Virgin TV 269 and Freesat 651 (24 hours). It offers video on demand through the channel's website, YouTube, BT TV, Daily Motion and via BBC iPlayer. The channel is also streamed through TV Catchup, TVPlayer, TVGuide.co.uk and Zattoo. The channel runs an interactive red button service with Looking Local on Sky and Virgin. The channel’s website presents deeper online resources and an extensive video-on-demand service. Community Channel launched on Sky in September 2000, on Freeview in 2002, NTL in 2005 (becoming Virgin Media in 2007), YouTube on 2008 and BBC iPlayer in November 2012. In early October 2013, the channel launched on TV Catchup. It joined the free-to-air satellite TV service Freesat on 17 October 2013. In 2004, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sky's CEO James Murdoch agreed to a Joint Declaration of support for the Community Channel, along with eight other major players in the British media industry: Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, ITN, Discovery, Flextech, GMTV, and the independent producers' body PACT. MTV, Disney and Turner Broadcasting System joined the group in 2006 and the now-defunct Joost signed the declaration in 2007. Community Channel has produced and broadcast programmes from communities and charities across the UK and around the globe. Notable series include ''Chalkhill Lives'', ''Kismet Road'', ''Charity Chic'', ''Action!'', ''Charge'', ''What Can Science Do For Me?'', ''Jon Snow Interviews'', ''Volunteer Films''/''Untold Stories'', ''Mad For Arts'', ''Union TV'', ''Mediabox'', ''Talent Studio'', ''Your Sport'', ''BSL Zone'', ''BBC Lifeline'', ''London360'', ''UK360'', ''The Bald Explorer'', ''The Ardent Fruitcakes'', ''For The Love of Odd'' and ''Brilliant Britain''. Series from broadcast partners have included ''Charlie’s Garden Army'', ''Charity Champions'', ''Horizon'' and ''Panorama'' from the BBC, ''One Born Every Minute'', ''Secret Millions'', ''Katie: My Beautiful Friends'' and ''Secret Millionaire'' from Channel 4, ''Living the Life'' from Sky, ''Staying Alive'', ''Shuga'' and ''MTV EXIT'' from MTV, ''UK’s Toughest Jobs'' from Discovery, series from Link TV and Aurora, and on occasion films from BFI, Universal and Warner Brothers. Community Channel has broadcast films from UK and global non-profits and charities including ''Sisters on the Planet'' from Oxfam, ''The Hunger Inquest'' and ''Nepal Challenge'' from Action Aid, ''The Space'' and ''The Two Worlds of Charlie F'' from the Arts Council, ''The ACLT: The Gift of Life'' from the African Caribbean Leukaenua Trust, ''EDC’s'' and ''Breast Cancer'' from Breast Cancer UK, ''The Spirit of London'' from the Damilola Taylor Trust, ''Child 31: Story of May's Meals'' from Mary’s Meals, ''Youth Producing Change'' from the Human Rights Watch, ''The Net Result 2009'' from Comic Relief, ''Rising Voices'' from Unicef, and ''Health is Wealth'' from Water Aid. == History == Community Channel is the only TV channel for communities, charities and the brilliant people who make the U.K. a better place for us all. Viewers learn more by watching the channel and are motivated to do more for others. Community Channel launched on 18th September 2000. It has grown from a two-hour teleshopping channel on Sky to a 24-hour channel available on all UK TV platforms, streaming applications and with 90% of its programming available on-demand. The channel is warm, embracing, sometimes funny, often surprising and offers a window into recognizable lives across the UK. 11.5 million unique TV viewers watched the channel last year with over two million viewers each month. Viewers are mainly 35-54 and 54-65 with an even gender split. They are mainstream and mid-market and there is representative viewing across the UK nations. Based on audience surveys 86% of viewers learn more by watching the channel, 62% feel differently having watched a programme, 44% have been inspired to go out and do more for their community and 20% got involved directly with a topic they watched. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Community Channel (UK)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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