HGTV (British and Irish TV channel)

HGTV (means "Home and Garden Television" and used to be named "Home") is a British and Irish television channel that shows home and gardening content.

 History 
HGTV started as UK Style on 1 November 1997 as part of the making of the UKTV network. On 1 February 2002 UKTV made UK Style +, a 1 hour timeshift of the original channel. 

In January 2003 another channel called UK Bright Ideas was made to show UK Style and UK Food’s shows on Freeview.

On 8 March 2004, UK Style and UK Style + changed to UKTV Style and UKTV Style +1.

In January 2005, UKTV Style Gardens was made and gardening shows were moved there. It changed to UKTV Gardens in 2007.

In December 2007, a two hour timeshift was made called UKTV Style +2. It closed in September 2008 to make Watch.

On 24 March 2009, UKTV Style rebranded into Home. It changed its format to show home and garden shows.

On 1 April 2019, Discovery took over the 50% of Home owned by BBC. In June 2019 it was announced Home would become HGTV. This happened on 21 January 2020 at 7am.
Category:British television channels