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The Horror Channel (formerly ''The Horror Channel'' and ''Zone Horror'') is a British television channel showing Horror films and television series and some science fiction. It is broadcast in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Specialized programming includes cult films, classic horror, comedy, B movies, modern thrillers, series, home-produced specials, biographies and documentaries. Since takeover they've revamped the daytime schedule to include more series and introduced some slightly better known films and directors to prime while retaining the cult look and feel of the channel. The Horror Channel is available as a free-to-air service on Eutelsat 28A. Horror Channel was formerly available on the YouView platform via TalkTalk Plus TV on channel 487. This came at no extra cost to Entertainment Boost, or Entertainment Extra Boost customers in the UK. It was removed on 2 June 2015. Horror Channel launched on Freeview on channel 70 as of 13 March 2015, a coincidence with the unlucky Friday the 13th event. This launch on the Freeview platform saw its viewership increase by some 300%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BARB )〕 ==History== The Horror Channel was created by Tony Hazell, who had previously worked for The God Channel. The Horror Channel went into administration on 21 September 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A horror show for venture capitalists )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stay Screaming )〕 The original management team formed a second company (Amore TV Ltd.) and were able to purchase the channel on 22 September 2004, writing off a £200,000 investment previously made in the channel by venture capital firm, Northern Enterprise. Zone Vision Networks Ltd. agreed to acquire The Horror Channel for an undisclosed sum on 17 June 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zone Vision buys Horror Channel )〕 In June 2006, The Horror Channel was rebranded as Zone Horror following Zone Vision Networks corporate rebrand as Zonemedia to better fit alongside Chellomedia, the Liberty Global content division which it became a part of in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zone develops new vision of itself )〕 Zone Horror +1 launched on Sky on 1 July 2008 replaced Zone Reality Extra. On 30 October 2006, Zonemedia launched Zone Horror in The Netherlands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zonemedia Launches Horror Channel In The Netherlands )〕 As of 1 July 2009, the channel is no longer available on cable in the Netherlands.〔https://service.upc.nl/index.php?CampaignID=48&PageID=1415&cid=257&aid=1055〕 On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CBS to launch UK channels with Chellomedia )〕 On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror was rebranded as Horror Channel, following the rebrand of the portfolio’s other three channels in November 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zone Horror rebrands as Horror Channel )〕 On-air the channel name appears as Horror. The rebrand was produced by Chello Zone’s in-house creative services team. As of May 2014 the channel's pre-show idents incorporate a prominent CBS eye even though CBS does not appear in the channel's name. Zone Fantasy rebranded by Horror Channel in Italy on 6 September 2011. On 21 August 2012, a pre-watershed simulcast of the Horror Channel began broadcasting in Sky's Entertainment genre on channel 198,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Horror Channel Now Also On Sky 198 from 9am till 9pm! )〕 followed by three hours of Psychic Today after 9.00 pm. This version of the channel was replaced by Reality TV, a simulcast of CBS Reality with a Psychic Today block, on 20 May 2013. On 9 March 2015, the Horror Channel appeared on Freeview channel 70 as a placeholder channel, and on 13 March 2015 Horror Channel started broadcasting fully and is the third of the CBS family to move to Freeview in under a year, leaving CBS Drama the only channel not to be on Freeview. 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「Horror Channel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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