Spree TV

Spree TV

Country	Australia
Broadcast area	Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth
Network	Network 10
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 16:9
Ownership
Owner	Ten Network Holdings
Parent	Paramount Networks UK & Australia
Sister channels	Channel 10 10 HD 10 Peach 10 Bold 10 Shake TVSN
History
Launched	17 September 2013 (2013-09-17)
Closed	12 August 2022 (2022-08-12)
Replaced by	Gecko
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Ten owned (virtual)	17

Spree TV was an Australian free-to-air datacasting television channel mainly carrying paid programming and home shopping, launched on 17 September 2013 by Ten Network Holdings and Brand Developers.

Though datacasting was intended by the Labor government of the time to broadcast telecourses and other non-commercial content, without any legislative restriction on its use, most Australian broadcasters have utilized the datacasting services for teleshopping instead. For the most part however, the general public has ignored these datacasting teleshopping channels, resulting in their swift discontinuation. Aspire TV, a similar channel by content, met this fate a year earlier on 31 July 2021.

Spree TV first aired on channel 15, before moving to channel 17 in 2020 after the launch of 10 Shake. It was closed on 12 August 2022, and it was replaced with a new channel called Gecko on 18 September 2022.

See also

• List of digital television channels in Australia