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- FTN (Flextech Television Network) was a television channel from Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky. The channel broadcast between 6pm and 6am daily. It launched at 6pm on 15 January 2003, the same day as its Freeview version, UK Bright Ideas, also partially owned by Virgin Media Television. FTN's schedule featured entertainment and reality programming, and also programming from other Virgin Media Television cable channels, such as Living, Living2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Trouble, and Challenge TV. This provided a preview to Freeview viewers of what the Virgin Media channels offered, in a similar fashion to BSkyB's Sky Three, a channel which was also on Freeview. FTN +1 launched on Sky and Virgin Media on 9 August, 2007. Despite being a one-hour timeshift, FTN +1 only broadcast from 7pm until 1am, as Live Roulette TV which broadcast on FTN from 12am till 3am, couldn't be rebroadcast one hour later, for legal reasons. (en)
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