Crave (streaming service)

Crave was a streaming service based in the Euro Republics and is based on the Canadian service of the same name.

History
The service launched in 2005 as hotfire.tv, a website with streaming programmes from Spark, TVN, BBC, UKTV, Channel 4 and Discovery (UK/IE/ER/EI), WarnerMedia, Viacom, Corus, Astrel Media and MTV Networks (US/CA) and Foxtel and Sky NZ (AU/NZ).

In March 2006, The service launched Hotfire Mobile, a version of Hotfire for mobile phones. They also launched a Live TV feature for both Hotfire and Horfire for Mobile. Sky made a deal for their movies and sport channels for live TV.

Two different versions launched at the time, Hotfire Lite, the free version and Hotfire, the normal version. It costed £3.99 (€4.50 and $4.00 internationally)

It rebranded as Crave in 2014.

In 2020, Crave launched on linear television, replacing Spark Premiere. Along with this, Spark Cinema’s two networks were replaced by HBO, Encore (1 and 2) and Do Not Disturb, the latter spun off from a block aired on sister network TV3.