A Channel Named After Me!

With Scotty Donaldson set to head overseas, someone must now fill facebook night and day with innate headlines.

The trouble is.. no one can do it quite as well as Scotty.. and well I can't really spot them as well as he can.

But when I can, I'll try...

I just discovered that there is a TV channel in the UK named after me.

(From wikipedia)

Dave is a television channel owned by UKTV, which is available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The channel is available on cable, IPTV, Freeview and some satellite platforms. The channel took the name Dave in October 2007, but it had been on air under various identities and formats since October 1998.

Dave was originally UK Gold Classics and UK Gold 2 and airs reruns of hit British shows like Top Gear, Dragon's Den, Gavin & Stacey, Have I Got News For You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Russell Howard's Good News, etc.

Within just one month of its launch, Dave had become the tenth largest television channel in the UK. The broadcaster puts daily averages at around 3 million viewers, although, much of the growth may be attributed to its presence on Freeview; nonetheless, it is performing significantly better in pay TV homes than UKTV G2 ever did. Over the month since its launch, Dave averaged a 1.32% share in multichannel homes and a 3.2% share in the 16-34 male demographic.

Dave's positive reception is proven by an attraction of 4 million viewers throughout 18 November 2007 for its coverage of "Car of the Year", pushing it to second place in multichannel behind ITV2.

Some of Dave's more popular shows, such as Mock The Week, Top Gear and Have I Got News For You, often, self-mockingly reference the channel with phrases such as "if you're watching the repeat on Dave..."

The shows with the highest ratings are Mock the Week (over 420,000 viewers), Jo Brand's Big Splash (417,000) QI (over 400,000), Top Gear (350,000) and Dragons' Den (about 300,000).

The first episode of Red Dwarf: Back to Earth attracted 2,060,000 viewers on the first viewing, though over 4 million viewed the episode at some point over its debut weekend. The highest rating original commission before this had been Red Bull X-Fighters (about 185,000).


Sounds like a channel that is most certainly worthy of my name!! Shame it's only in the UK. Oh well, it's a better title than Jones!