Top Up TV Promo was a

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broadcast in the

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to promote services offered by

Top Up TV Top Up TV was a pay TV service in the United Kingdom that was launched in March 2004, operating on the digital terrestrial television platform. The service aimed to "top up" Freeview customers by providing additional content and services throu ...

. The channel launched on 18 September 2006, and closed on 6 October 2013. The channel broadcast a looped promotional video, presented by

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, advertising Top Up TV's new ''Anytime'' service. The channel broadcast

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between 6:00 am and noon each day. The channel was used in conjunction with

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generated Top Up TV Active on channel 107, which is a text-based information service available 24 hours a day, informing viewers how to subscribe, costs and other information. A similar channel, known as ''Top Up TV Sampler'', was also broadcast by Top Up TV between December 2004 and February 2005 on channel 36, presented by

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. It advertised Top Up TV's then-current services, and was broadcast from 4:00 am to 11:00 pm daily. However, in February 2005, it was replaced by

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channel

Xtraview Xtraview was a British pay-per-view television channel run by Top Up TV. It replaced Top Up TV Sampler, a promotional channel showing Top Up TV's latest offers presented by Alice Beer. Xtraview showed a selection of programs from the Top Up TV ...

, before itself being removed in August 2005 due to capacity contracts running out with terrestrial broadcaster

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. Xtraview was replaced by encrypted Top Up TV channels previously broadcast on the slot owned by Channel 4, of which are expected to be replaced themselves with new channels launched by Five.

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