- SmileTV
Infobox TV channel
name = SmileTV
logosize = 200px
logofile = SmileTVlogo.png
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launch =27 April ,2006
closed date =
owner = SQ1 Management
terr serv 1 = Freeview
terr chan 1 = Channel 37 (available between 0300 and 0700)
terr chan 2 = Channel 46 24hrs|SmileTV is a British television channel which launched on
digital terrestrial television (Freeview) channel 37 on29 April ,2006 . It is carried on multiplex C, and timeshares with Dave. The channel is owned by SQ1 Management. SmileTV has been broadcasting between 3am and 7am since28 September ,2007 . Since launch, the channel had been on air between 1am and 5am.The vast majority of the channel's output is a premium rate telephone chat-line service by the name of "Party Girls", which broadcasts from 3am to 7am. This programme replaces "Party People", which was broadcast between 1am and 4am, and "SumoTV", taking up the final hour of the old broadcasing times.
From the launch of SmileTV until
1 July ,2006 , "Quizworld" was shown in the 1am to 4am timeslot. "Quizworld" was a premium rate telephone quiz service. An audio version of "Quizworld" was also broadcast on Top Up TV Active intermittently outside of SmileTV's broadcast hours. The audio on was accompanied by an on-screen MHEG graphic of the quiz. AMHEG graphic is used as during the daytime and evening Top Up TV have no space on the digital terrestrial platform for an additional videostream. Using MHEG means a picture can be broadcast using minimal bandwidth.The channel also has a secondary logo seen on their off-air MHEG, and is worded as SmileTV ;-).
Smile TV 2 appeared on freeview channel 46 on the 8th September 2008 and broadcasts "Party Girls" and Life Coach TV. [http://www.smiletelevision.co.uk/] [http://www.lifecoacher.tv/]
Party Girls
Party Girls which replaced Party People is a show where mainly girls encourage viewers to phone and chat with the girls. Viewes can also text them and the messages appear on screen, recently their have been two girls on screen, the presenter and another who takesa calls and chat to viewers. The presenters job is to encourage viewers to text and phone the show and, secondly, to read out texts that are sent to screen.
Life Coach
Life Coach is a interactive show where a presenter and a Life Coach ask viewers to text or call the show with any issues they have in their life and they will atempt to help by provideing solutions to the viewers problems unlike Party Girls.
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