Shortlived TV channels

[Neil Jones]

Who do we think holds the record then for the shortest lived channel?

Are we including or excluding pop-up channels? I suppose that since they occupied transponder space and had a proper EPG entry, Sky News Raw (10 hours) and Sky News Brexit Free (16 days) are contenders?

According to a Digital Spy forum post from 2010, Scuzz+1 may hold the record. Scuzz + 1 was reported to have launched by 12:30pm on the Monday, and had been removed from the EPG by 2:45pm on the Friday, meaning the channel lasted around 98 hours.

On topic, Sky2 in its original format lasted less than a year, before it was revived with about four different names before settling on Sky2 again and then morphing into Sky Replay.