Style are carried on the platform although Horizons and Style share a single channel slot. UKTV is later given an additional slot, allowing Horizons and Style to broadcast full-time. 1999 April – UK Gold Classics is renamed UK Gold 2. It operates as a time shift service of UK Gold by broadcasting the channel's daytime output during the evening. 2000s 2000 30 March – UK Arena closes and is replaced by UK Drama. November – UK Play is renamed Play UK. 2001 5 November – UK Food launches. Consequently, UK Style focusses on programming to do with the home. 2002 1 May – ITV Digital stops broadcasting, resulting in UKTV's channels disappearing from terrestrial television. 30 September – Play UK closes due to low ratings following the closure of ITV Digital. 30 October – Freeview launches and UKTV launches UK History for the new terrestrial platform. 2003 15 January – UK Bright Ideas launches as a lifestyle channel for Freeview. The channel shows content from UK Style and UK Food (and later UKTV Gardens) and is used as a showcase for the UKTV's lifestyle channels on pay-TV platforms. 12 November – UK Gold 2 is renamed UK G2. It broadcasts its own schedule and is no longer a time shift of UK Gold. 2004 8 March – The UKTV prefix is added to all channels, e.g. UK Gold becomes UKTV Gold. Following a reduction the previous month in the length of its ad breaks in a bid to retain viewers and attract advertisers after results of its research show that shorter breaks produce higher advertising recall levels, UKTV limits its junctions from seven and a half minutes to a maximum of five minutes. March – A new digital terrestrial pay service, Top Up TV, launches and three of UKTV's channels – UKTV Gold, UKTV Style and UKTV Food – form part of the service of ten channels, each broadcasting on a part-time basis. November – UKTV launches its first +1 channel – for UKTV G2. 2005 12 January - UKTV Nature launches as a natural-history spin-off from UKTV Horizons. 23 February – UKTV Style Gardens launches as a gardening spin-off from UKTV Style. 2006 Following an announcement in October 2005 that UKTV would begin showing sport, 2006 sees UKTV G2 show highlights of the RBS Six Nations rugby union championship, extensive coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup as a