Owned by Granada Sky Broadcasting, a 50-50 joint venture between Granada plc and BSkyB, Granada Plus was a general entertainment channel aimed at older audiences and showed archived material. Originally from the Granada Television and London Weekend Television archives and shortly after, programmes made by Yorkshire Television, the channel soon began to show more recent programmes made by the ITV network, as well as programme stock which had been originally shown on the BBC. Classic US shows popular with British viewers we also added to the channel's output. Consequently, in 1999 the channel was renamed "G Plus" and in 2002 as "Plus".
