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Television Broadcast Licensing Update July 2008

Television services licensed in this period

Licence Type	Licensee	Service Name
TLCS	Ayngaran International (UK) Limited	Ayngaran-Kalaignar TV
TLCS	Poeckingham Media Limited	Monopol Art TV
TLCS	Dolphin Broadcast Services Limited	Movies 4 Women
TLCS	Dolphin Broadcast Services Limited	Movies 4 Women 2
TLCS	General Entertainment and Music Limited	General Entertainment and Music (GEM) TV
TLCS	New Syria Limited	New Syria TV
TLCS	Shorts International Limited	Shorts TV
DTPS	Top Up TV Europe Limited	Top Up TV Anytime 4 / Top Up TV Anytime 5

Full contact details (by channel name) are available on Ofcom’s website under Ofcom Licensing / Television Broadcast Licensing.

Television services that have ceased to be licensed (handed back or revoked) in this period

The following services are no longer licensed.

The relevant licence is either:

• no longer required by the licensee so has been handed back, or the service has been removed from a licence covering multiple services, or;
• revoked as a matter of routine (usually for non-payment of the annual licence fee).

Ofcom can also revoke licences for a number of reasons relating to the conditions of the licence. In such cases Ofcom will normally publish a statement setting out the reasons for the revocation.

Licence Type	Licensee	Service Name
TLCS	Television Networks Company Limited	Big Britain
TLCS	Reach-Data Limited	Fame
TLCS	Islamic TV Unity Channel Limited	Islamic TV Unity Channel
TLCS	Escani Limited	Lamisa
TLCS	MTV Networks Europe	MTV Denmark
TLCS	MTV Networks Europe	MTV Finland
TLCS	MTV Networks Europe	MTV Nordic (Sweden)
TLCS	MTV Networks Europe	MTV Norway
TLCS	Nickelodeon International Limited	Nickelodeon Scandinavia
TLCS	DM Islam Television Limited	Supreme Master TV

Licence transfers

The following licences have been transferred to a new company or individual who is now the legal licensee.

Licence Type	Service Name	Previous Licensee	New Licensee
TLCS	9X	Rayat Television Enterprises Limited	Inx Media UK Limited
TLCS	Gems TV 1*	Simply Shopping TV Limited	Gems TV (UK) Limited
TLCS	Sky arts + 1*	Performance Channel Limited	Sky Arts Limited
TLCS	TV Warehouse	TV Network Media Limited	JML Direct Limited
TLCS	TV Warehouse 2 *	TV Network Media Limited	JML Direct Limited

* See Previous Service Name Below

Service Name Changes

The following licensees have changed the name of their service.

Licence Type	Licensee	Previous Service Name	New Service Name
TLCS	Go Ape TV Limited	Ape TV	Chat Back
TLCS	Gems TV (UK) Limited	Shop Vector	Gems TV 1
TLCS	JML Direct Limited	JML Innovation	JML Beautyshop
TLCS	All Entertainment Limited	Life One	Life Television
TLCS	Nickelodeon UK Limited	Nicktoons2	NickToonsters
TLCS	JML Direct Limited	JML Lifestyle	Rocks & Co
TLCS	Sky Arts Limited	Performance Channel	Sky Arts + 1
TLCS	JML Direct Limited	TV Warehouse Select	TV Warehouse 2
TLCS	Zonemedia Broadcasting Limited	Zone Club (UK)	Zone Romantica +1

TLCS – Television Licensable Content Service Licence
DTPS - Digital Television Programme Service Licence

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