Life One is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 television

Television

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 channel owned and operated by Life TV Media

Life TV Media

Life TV Media is an independent UK broadcaster who produces television content for its own channel, Life One and other broadcasters.-Channels:Life TV Media started their programming on the Sky Digital platform in October 2000, Life TV...

 which launched in August 2007 as the fourth television channel

Television channel

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 from the company. Life One is the only Life TV Media

Life TV Media

Life TV Media is an independent UK broadcaster who produces television content for its own channel, Life One and other broadcasters.-Channels:Life TV Media started their programming on the Sky Digital platform in October 2000, Life TV...

 channel presently broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 on Sky Digital

Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

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The programming was split into seven 'zones' and each zone is focused on different types of programmes. The seven zones are Lifestyle, Factual, Sports, Music

Music

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, Reality

Reality

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, Drama

Drama

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 and Films.

Before it suddenly went off air and off the Sky listings on March 11, 2008, Life One broadcast for 24 hours a day on Sky Channel 197. No explanation was given for its unexpected disappearance. However, after a few weeks of testing outside of the EPG (by manually tuning it in) Life One returned to its old slot on Sky's EPG at channel number 197.

However, Life One closed down again on June 16, 2008.

Life One then relaunched as 'Life' on August 11, 2008 on Sky EPG 197 and it timeshares with Over 18 TV.

'Life' moved to channel number 186 on September 1, 2008.

'Life' was removed from the Sky EPG on September 15, 2009.