UKTV's W launches Life Unfiltered rebrand as the premium entertainment channel is taken free-to-air

Ws launches fresh branding

W channel available free-to-air from March 28th

Monday 21 March 2022 Award-winning commercial broadcaster UKTV today unveiled a new on and off-air identity for its popular premium entertainment channel W. Coinciding with W launching free-to-air, the channels new look and feel positions it as the home of genuine human moments, leading with the tagline, Life Unfiltered.

Ws Head of Marketing, Nick Gilmer, said,

W prides itself on shining a light on the real lives and experiences of our audience. With an unrivalled line-up of popular talent W brings to life the stories of Britains everyday heroes through the best real-life factual shows on TV. The new branding perfectly captures what it is to live Life Unfiltered. Ws new identity will enable new and existing viewers to immediately understand the channels content offering and the emotional response they will feel when they watch W and its shows on TV or on UKTV Play.

In-house agency, UKTV Creative, designed, developed and delivered all 200 assets for the channel rebrand over seven months; from the full on-air packaging, to the suite of eight bespoke channel idents. Testing was crucial to the creative process to ensure that the new branding resonated positively and connected with new and existing W viewers on an emotional level.

Framing Ws content, the brand-new idents have been created to resonate with the channels core female skewing target audience aged 25-44, featuring relatable human moments that embody the Life Unfiltered mantra.

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UKTVs Head of Design, Peter Allinson, said,

UKTV Creative is proud to have been part of the process of sharpening Ws positioning and refreshing its on-air identity. The resulting suite of assets truly embody a down-to-earth and unfiltered feel, that celebrate Ws inspiring programming and real-life moments in all their imperfect and unique glory.

The new W logo works as a bold stand-alone mark, and also as a simple framing device, allowing imagery and footage to be shown through the W lens, serving as a window into real life. The new W colour palette is vibrant and full of life, with hero colour Burnt Sienna lending a distinctive human quality to assets, with organic shades that are often found in nature. Real world textures also play an important role, with paper, paint and natural wall textures creating a tactile look and feel throughout the branded assets.

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Sustainability is one of the core pillars of UKTVs business, so every element of the creative process was completed with sustainability in mind. All creative work was executed in-house with deliveries completed via FTP, ensuring no hard drives or couriers were used. The new channel idents and stings were sourced by Stalkr, a world leader in creative sourcing and licensing content, which saved on the transport, resources, waste and power typically needed for film shoots.

The W brand refresh coincides with the channels free-to-air launch on Monday 28th March in Freeview slot 25, and on direct-to-consumer video on demand service UKTV Play. Viewers will have access to a plethora of hit UKTV Originals for free, including brand new upcoming shows Alex Jones: Making Babies, Rochelle Humes: Interior Designer in the Making, Nurses on the Ward and Dating With My Mates, alongside new series of returning favourites Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, MasterChef USA, Australia and Canada, and Inside the Ambulance. Many viewers will also have the chance to see award-winning Emma Willis: Delivering Babies and Myleene Klass acclaimed documentary Myleene Klass: Miscarriage and Me for the first time.

Ws channel director, Adam Collings, said,

Ws new branding perfectly communicates our rich mix of shows, offering moments of unfiltered joy, tears and laughter. By taking the channel free-to-air we are thrilled that even more viewers will have the opportunity to enjoy Ws powerful content and discover a channel theyll want to spend time with.

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For further information please contact:

Kerry Goode, Director of Communications, UKTV

Rebecca Gresley-Jones, Corporate Communications Manager, UKTV

About W

W is a TV channel passionate about people and finding the joy in everyday moments. Its quality mix of UKTV Originals featuring heart-warming shows led by some of the UKs most-loved talent, and uplifting series shining a light on heroic emergency services, are complemented by high quality acquisitions.

W shows tap into the raw and genuine heart swell moments, from emotions running high at the sound of a babys first cry in the award-winning Emma Willis: Delivering Babies, to heart-stopping drama for the incredible frontline workers in Inside the Ambulance, Nurses on the Ward and 999 Rescue Squad. Elsewhere, award-winning documentary maker Stacey Dooley offers an unfiltered insight into unseen areas of modern relationships and family life in the hit series Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, while Rochelle Humes helps deserving families transform their homes in Rochelle Humes: Interior Designer in the Making.

W is also the exclusive home to the joyfully competitive MasterChef franchise, including MasterChef Australia, MasterChef USA and MasterChef Juniors.

About UKTV

UKTV has been at the forefront of branded television for over 25 years, entertaining the nation with programmes they love. Its leading brands - Dave, Gold, W, Drama, Alibi, Eden and Yesterday - span comedy, entertainment, natural history, factual and drama, and are delivered to audiences through UKTV Play, Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk, YouView, Freesat and Amazon Fire. The broadcaster is a significant investor in British creativity and is committed to working with new and established writers, directors and programme-makers.

UKTV is part of BBC Studios, the UKs most-awarded production company, a world-class distributor with international branded services, and a commercial

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