Numberone

Numberone is a pay terrestrial television company that runs in the United Kingdom, Euro Republics, El Kadsre and France. Many channels are shared between the five countries (like BBC One in France, or TF1 in El Kadsre).

History
Numberone was founded in 1998 by Thomas Young and Jonathan James initially only serving El Kadsre and the Euro Republics. In late 1999, it expanded into Switzerland and in 2002, it acquired ITV Digital and eventually was rebranded as a UK version of Numberone. In 2005, Numberone launched in France. In the same year, Numberone announced it would commence HD broadcasting with the addition of TV3 HD and El TV Kadsre Digital to the lineup in all countries, on January 1, 2006, the service expanded once again into the Nordic countries, this meant that viewers worldwide got access to all channels from SVT, Viasat, YLE, DR, TV2, Kanal 5 and TV4. It should be noted that Viasat’s channels broadcast from the United Kingdom and as a result were available from December 1, 2005.