Lifestyle

Lifestyle was a British daytime television channel aimed at women and families. It was broadcast on cable and from February 1989 on transponder 5 of the Astra satellite. The channel's logo originally consisted of 3D computer graphics forming a face before when it was relaunched in November 1987, which changes to an animated pastel butterfly and includes the signature flute tune within typifying its gentle pace and reflective colourful style. History 1985–1989: Early years Lifestyle was launched on 30 October 1985 and initially available on various cable networks such as Rediffusion Cablevision in parts of the United Kingdom and Cablelink in parts of Ireland. Lifestyle's daytime lineup mainly consisted of magazines, novelas and movies within the programming was linked by an in-vision continuity announcer David Hamilton. By the late 1980s, the channel was showing a range of classic American comedies, crime dramas (such as Divorce Court and Remington Steele) along with film noir classics from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the daily exercise routine shows such as Charlene Prickett's It Figures and Keep Fit also included. The channel was broadcast from facilities at Molinare, another company owned at the time by WHSmith Group.