On 30 June 2002, UKTV announced the closure of
Play UK at the end of the year, citing that the closure of
ITV Digital was the reason for its demise. On 13 September, UKTV announced the closure of the channel would be moved forward to the end of September, and that to prepare for the launch of
Freeview, the bandwidth space would be replaced with a new channelUK History. Play UK closed as planned at the end of September, and the following month on 30October, the launch date for the Freeview platform itself, UK History launched, becoming an offshoot of
UK Horizons with most of its factual and documentary programmes moving over; however, the launch of UK History allowed Horizons to broadcast more programmes in their schedule. On 28 January 2004, a timeshift serviceUK History +1 was launched on
Sky Digital. The channel broadcasts the UK History schedule one hour later than the main channel, but contains no special programming or branding, with the occasional exception of a different
DOG. The channel launched on
Telewest the following week on 4 February. On 8 March 2004, the channel's "UK" prefix was changed to the full "UKTV" name, renaming the networks as UKTV History and UKTV History +1, as with the rest of the
UKTV network. The channel was available full-time on all platforms until 15 October 2007 when the hours were reduced on the Freeview platform, resulting in the channel stopping broadcasting at 6pm each day. This was a result of the launch of
Dave, which took over UKTV History broadcast capacity. UKTV History took over the slot used by the unsuccessful
UKTV Bright Ideas that was sharing a slot with
Virgin1 and
Babestation. The channel's inability to broadcast in prime time on Freeview resulted in a ratings drop. In November 2007, the channel had a 0.3per cent share of all television viewing, compared to 0.5per cent a year earlier. As part of a network-wide programme of relaunching all the UKTV channels under unique names and brands, UKTV History and UKTV History +1 were renamed as Yesterday and Yesterday +1, respectively, on 2 March 2009. The new channel also took on extra programming including historical fact drama series and factual programmes previously broadcast on
UKTV Documentary concerning the natural history of the British Isles. On 1 June 2010, Yesterday reinstated its full broadcast hours on Freeview, following the closure of the
Virgin1 +1 channel. On 7 October 2011, Yesterday +1 was reinstated on Virgin Media. On 24 July 2012, Yesterday offers more entertainment-led content along with a design refresh, which includes a new logo and idents, in order to attract a wider and younger audience, along with a new slogan, "Entertainment Inspired By History". For example, the channel has broadcast more repeats of
situation comedies, such as
Last of the Summer Wine or
Butterflies. The network moved to channel 19 on 19 September 2012, swapping with sister channel
Dave. In late 2014, Yesterday began slowly decreasing the amount of comedy and drama shown on the channel and branching out into more factual content, with notable additions including natural history, science and engineering alongside the classic slate of history programming. On 8 December 2015, Yesterday became available on Freesat together with two of its UKTV sister channels Drama and former sister channel,
Really. Yesterday +1 launched on Freeview channel 99 on 22 November 2018, but was removed on 16 January 2019. On 10 June 2019, Yesterday moved to channel 25 on Freeview, a space previously occupied by its former sister channel
Home, which
Discovery, Inc. acquired along with
Good Food and
Really as part of a deal with its current owner
BBC Studios. Yesterday +1 returned on Freeview on channel 75 on 15 April 2020, with the channel moving up one slot, next to UKTV's newly acquired sister channel CCXTV, on (though channel 74 is only currently used for two hours of teleshopping a night rather than broadcasting any of Yesterday's programmes). On , the channel moved to channel 26 as part of a move up where every channel from channel 24 to 54 on the platform moved up one place to allow
BBC Four to move to channel 24 in Scotland due to new
Ofcom rules regarding certain PSB channels requiring greater prominence on EPGs. On 8 July 2022, test transmissions for the HD feed of Yesterday commenced, using the frequency 12226 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S2 8PSK. A month later, on 8 August 2022, Yesterday's HD feed officially launched on
Sky Q and
Sky HD channel 155 where it replaced the standard definition feed on the EPG. The HD feed was added to Virgin Media on 14 December 2022. The HD feed on
Sky Q and
Sky HD closed on 1 April 2025, though it will continue as normal on
Sky Glass and
Sky Stream. On 16 July 2024, Yesterday and Yesterday +1 were renamed to U&Yesterday and U&Yesterday +1, respectively as part of a network wide rebrand with the "U" masterbrand. On 16 October 2024, U&Yesterday +1 was replaced by
U&Eden on
Freeview. ==Former logos==