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ITVBe

Logo used since 15th November 2022
Country	United Kingdom
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift service	ITVBe +1
Ownership
Owner	ITV plc
Parent	ITV Digital Channels
Sister channels	ITV1 ITV2 ITV3 ITV4
History
Launched	8 October 2014; 10 years ago (2014-10-08)
Links
Website	www.itv.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 28 (SD) Channel 93 (+1)
Streaming media
ITVX	Watch live (UK only)
TVPlayer	Watch live (UK only)
Sky Go	Watch live (UK only)
Virgin TV Go	Watch live (UK only) Watch live (+1) (UK only)

ITVBe is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. The channel was first announced on 12 February 2014 and launched on 8 October 2014.^[1] ITVBe broadcasts reality and unscripted shows, including US acquisitions such as The Real Housewives franchise, Million Dollar Listing New York, and Botched; and original programming such as The Real Housewives of Cheshire, Dinner Date, and The Only Way Is Essex. The channel has also occasionally aired feature films, particularly from the romantic comedy genre, and from May to September 2023 also broadcast female-skewed comedy and drama such as Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.^[2]

A high-definition simulcast, ITVBe HD, launched on Virgin Media on 19 November 2014, along with a one-hour timeshift feed, ITVBe +1. Both channels were exclusive to Virgin until the ITVBe +1 service was made available on Sky and Freesat on 15 December 2014, and the ITVBe HD service on 12 December 2023.^{[citation needed]} As part of a number of changes to ITV's broadcasting, ITVBe +1 was removed from Sky and Freesat on 13 April 2021.^[3] ITVBe +1 is also available on Freeview, broadcasting between 2am and 4am.

On 19 September 2022, ITVBe and other ITV digital channels simulcast ITV's coverage of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.

On 7 October 2022, ITVBe’s Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts were removed in order to streamline the ITV channels for an upcoming rebrand that happened on 15 November. On the same day, the majority of videos uploaded on ITVBe’s YouTube account were moved to the ITVX YouTube account.

The following is a list of the ten most watched episodes of a series on ITVBe since the channel began broadcasting in October 2014. Figures are based on Live +7 data supplied by BARB.^[4] The Only Way Is Essex is consistently the highest rated series on ITVBe.

When ITVBe launched in October 2014, it originally utilised a fun, social-media-inspired aesthetic driven by its key talent and reality-TV stars. Boldness and everyday glitz were expressed across the 12-piece mix-n-match colour palette, playful stickers and icons, and entirely unique to ITVBe: user-generated idents named "Mydents". ^[5]

In line with the launch of the streaming service ITVX, ITVBe received a new look for the first time on 15 November 2022. The logo is now coloured peach and has the b in 'be' raised up higher than the rest of the letters, and uses idents that are cross-used across ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, and ITV4 with different views which reflect the channel's image and programming output.^[6]

On 20 August 2020, ITV announced that EarlyBe would be introduced on the ITV Hub as part of the autumn 2020 reboot. Shows which would broadcast on ITVBe on the same day would be available to watch on the ITV Hub from 7am onwards. The service started on 3 September 2020 and the first show to be hosted by the ITV Hub, before it aired on ITVBe, was Sam & Billie: The Mummy Diaries, which didn't air on ITVBe until 9pm on 3 September 2020. EarlyBe also hosts The Real Housewives of Cheshire, The Only Way Is Essex, Ferne McCann: First Time Mum, and Gemma Collins: Diva.^[7]

• ITVBe at itv.com