True Crime (Stylised as TRUE CRIME, formerly known as Reality TV, Zone Reality and CBS Reality) is a British
free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...
television channel.
History
Reality TV launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky Digital on 10 October 2002. A timeshift network – Reality TV +1 was launched on January 31, 2005, while an additional channel called Reality Extra was launched in February 2006.
With the rebranding of UPC's channels under the "Zone" brand, the channels were rebranded in the UK on June 26, 2006, as with the rest of Europe, with the channels rebranding as Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1 and Zone Reality Extra, respectively. On 20 June 2008, Chello Zone announced that Zone Reality Extra would close and its broadcast capacity would be replaced with Zone Horror +1 on 1 July, with
Zone Thriller moving into its EPG slot.
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that
CBS Studios International had struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK and Ireland during 2009. On 16 November 2009, the channel rebranded as
CBS Reality and CBS Reality +1.
, CBS Reality is available on
Freeview and
Freesat
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in the United Kingdom. A timeshift channel, CBS Reality +1, was available on
YouView , but was removed on 2 June 2015. In Ireland, the channels are available on
Sky Ireland.
In addition to their slot on Freeview Channel 66, a number of CBS Reality shows can be found simulcast daily on
various Local Television channels in the UK, such as
Local TV Liverpool (Freeview channel 7).
On 30 June 2022, the British arm of the AMC-Paramount partnership revised their channel line-up with nearly all CBS branding being dropped and a new channel called Legend taking
CBS Justice's slot on a number of services and Horror's programming.
On 22 November 2023, CBS Reality rebranded as True Crime thus dropping the CBS brand after 14 years in the UK.
The European CBS Reality network is not a part of the rebrand and retains its name.
Logos
Image:Zone Reality.svg, Zone Reality (2006–2009)
Image:CBS_Reality.png, CBS Reality (2009-2023)
See also
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Paramount International Networks
*
AMC Networks International
References
External links
CBS Reality UK
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AMC Networks International
Paramount International Networks
Television channels and stations established in 2002
English-language television stations in the United Kingdom