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''L!VE TV'' was a British television station that was operated by Mirror Group Newspapers on cable television from 12 June 1995 – 5 November 1999. It was later revived for Sky from 2003. In 2006, the new L!VE TV's name was changed to Babeworld to reflect the channel's gradual change of focus towards "adult material". ==First incarnation (1995-1999)== The channel was proposed by David Montgomery as MGN's foray into pay television. At its launch in 1995, the station was headed by Kelvin MacKenzie with Janet Street-Porter as managing director and a team of young presenters, dubbed as "Tellybrats", who were new to TV. Street-Porter created a schedule based around three blocks of live broadcasting each day from its base on the 24th floor of London's Canary Wharf building. The output was orientated towards a rolling mix of celebrities, interviews, reviews, lifestyle features and reports from events and happenings across the UK. A typical early show was a two-hour afternoon piece based on viewers' wedding videos. By the second week only one had been sent in, and on phoning the participants to have a live commentary, the presenters were informed that the couple were too busy shopping. Street-Porter left after five months due to clashes with MacKenzie over content. MacKenzie went on to create programmes that received much media coverage but low viewer figures. These included ''Topless Darts'', produced by future Times journalist Sathnam Sanghera〔 http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/music/1726〕 with commentary by comedian Jimmy Frinton, the surreal talent show Spanish Archer, ''Talgarth Trousers'', (a comedy sketch show) and ''Canary Wharf'', a soap opera, which used the station's offices in the Docklands as a set. Other features were the weather, read in Norwegian by a blonde model (Eva Bjertnes or Anne-Marie Foss) wearing a bikini, ''Britain's Bounciest Weather'' with Rusty Goffe (known, although uncredited, for his appearance as an Oompa Loompa in the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'') who due to his small stature bounced on a trampoline while doing the forecast (bouncing higher the further north he was talking about), ''Tiffany's Big City Tips'', in which model Tiffany Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear,〔 ''Painted Ladies'', which involved topless girls "painting" on large sheets of paper with various body parts and the News Bunny, a person in a rabbit suit who stood behind a newsreader making gestures and expressions for each item.〔Ashley Hames, "Sin Cities", Tonto Books, 2008, ISBN 0-9556326-0-9, p.33〕〔Quentin Falk, Ben Falk, "Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television", Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 1-86105-874-8, p.236〕 Considered cheap and always accused of poor taste, the channel never captured more than 1% of the British television audience under MGN, and at its worst was losing around £7 million a year. It was often described as "tabloid television", in part due to its control by MGN and the fact that MacKenzie had been editor of The Sun. Shortly before its demise in 1999, it was said the channel would bid for rights to show the English Premiership, but given the size of the financial commitment required, it is likely that it was merely a publicity stunt. By this time, the channel had increasingly moved to showing soft porn. 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「L!VE TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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